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  2. Ornamental Gardening.

    THE following paper was read at the June meeting of the Horticultural Society of Victoria by Mr. Wilson:— "Ornamental gardening—or in other words, the art of decorating public and private gardens with the ...

    Article : 2,871 words
  3. Agricultural Notes.—The Weather, &c.

    FROM the cold districts of Victoria reports on the present appearance of crops are anything but favourable. Continuous wet and cold weather has produced the usual effects. Crops look starved and poor, are thin on the ground, ...

    Article : 1,336 words
  4. SCIENCE—INVENTION— CONSTRUCTION.

    THIS is a very simple and cheap modification of the support of builder's scaffolding, whereby the workmen may olovate or lower themselves, together with the platform and its burdon of tools and materials, without ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 245 words
  5. The Expansion of Water as Motive Powers.

    HERETOFORE gases have been chiefly employed to utilize the expansive force of heat. Gases are elastic and compressible: fluids are—water, at least is—nearly incompressible. Gases expand with a force in ...

    Article : 445 words
  6. Gate Hinges for the Bush

    SIR.—The enclosed ia a bush invention for a gate on a common paddock fence. You may think it worthy of a place in your useful paper. Those who have seen it erected, think it a good idea, as it acts well. On the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 244 words
  7. Pacts for Farmers.

    IT is necessary to successfnl cheese making that means should exist in all diaries for preserving a suitable temperature throughout the year; the cold of a severe winter being hardly less injurious than the ...

    Article : 926 words
  8. Scientific Notes.

    Mr. J. GOULD, F. R. S., and the well-known author of a work on the Ornithology of Australia, describes in the May number of the Magazine of Natural History, a new species of Australian thrush, ...

    Article : 1,015 words
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