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  2. HORTICULTURAL.

    The weather has continued to be most favourable for the gardens, as the glorious masses of flowers to be seen in every garden testify. Seldom are we so favoured with such a satisfactorily season, being ...

    Article : 758 words
  3. COMMERCIAL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 4,665 words
  4. Orchard.

    Cherries are ripening well, and they will be plentiful and good this season. The show of apricots so far is excellent, and in a short time early varieties will be ripening, but it would be desirable to ...

    Article : 221 words
  5. Horticultural Notes.

    A notification has been received by Mr. Kidd, Minister for Agriculture, from the Victorian Agricultural Department, to the effect that any plant diseased with "cottony cushion ...

    Article : 188 words
  6. Houses.

    Small slugs and caterpillars are now a good deal in evidence among tender plants, but spraying them with tobacco water or Nikoteen, dusting the surface of the pots and benches with finely broken ...

    Article : 278 words
  7. A Wonderful Insect.

    The cucujo is the firefly of the tropics, and it is the most brilliant of the whole tribe of light-giving insect or animals. Thirty-eight of them yield one candlepower. Photographs have been printed by two ...

    Article : 313 words
  8. A New and Rare Plant, Senecio Tanguticus.

    "A valuable addition," says "The Garden," will this Chinese plant prove to the few species of Senecio now grown iu gardens for their ornamental foliage rather than for any merit their flowers may possess. ...

    Article : 107 words
  9. Parramatta Orchard Notes.

    The hailstorm of last week did considerable damage in parts of the fruit-growing districts. The hail was of a very jagged sort, and some large hailstones fell. Fortunately ...

    Article : 270 words
  10. Kitchen Garden.

    Vegetables are very abundant and good at the present time—so plentiful in some parts of the State that those who grow them for profit have a difficulty in disposing of the bulk of their productions. ...

    Article : 576 words
  11. A School of Happiness.

    The latest "notion" is a school of happiness, and the locale of the first educational establishment of the kind is Paris Here, we are told, every kind of happiness will be taught, doubtless by experienced professors. ...

    Article : 95 words
  12. Stock and Station Produce.

    Winchcombe, Carson, and Co., Ltd., report for the week ended November 7:—Hides.—Friday, November 6: The market was firm for all good quality of all averages; but lights continued to hold first place in demand and ...

    Article : 543 words
  13. Willoughby Horticultural Society.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 659 words
  14. Advertising

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    Advertising : 20 words
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