"Amateur Gardener" writes:—"Would you oblige by giving me a list of the best 15 roses to plant and a description of their colours, and also advise me about delphinium seed. I have ...
Article : 202 wordsAs promised, we reprint our article of March 21. The lawn can be sown from now on until the end of August or early in September. As the weather is ...
Article : 1,850 wordsWe were more than delighted to see such a fine attendance 02 the holiday morning at the rose pruning demonstration given under the direction of the ...
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Article : 93 words"Specs" (Adelaide) writes—"In lifting my dahlia tubers a week or two ago a few of them were attacked by a kind of moth (or insect), whitish in appearance, and fairly large. I had ...
Article : 199 wordsOur old friend "Shorty" (Broken Hill) writes again as follows:—"Dear Greenleaf—Thanks very much for your information about paths and other Email troubles. ...
Article : 714 words"H. B." (Dulwich) writes:—"I have a small bed of carnations which have become very badly affected with aphis. Would it do any harm to cut them back? Also, what spray would you ...
Article : 70 wordsSOW seeds of cabbage, lettuce, silver beet, carrots, parsnips, salsify, turnips, and red beet. PREPARE strawberry beds, asparagus ...
Article : 295 words"Dodo" (Hahndorf) writes:—"Some of year subscribers no doubt appreciate a sharp hoe. A very good one can be made from the common style by adding piece of old scythe blade ...
Article : 99 wordsMany growers that specialise in growing sweet peas in England so to extreme methods in order to produce specially fine blooms for exhibition purposes. One of ...
Article : 452 words"K. M." (Hawker) writes:—"I have several times thought of writing to you to thank you for the great help you have been to me in my garden. I have always loved gardening, and ...
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Article : 286 words"Dodo" (Hihndorf) writes:—"(1) I wonder if you could tell me the reason my dapline does not flower? I have had it four-years and it has only had one little spring of blossoms since ...
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Article : 95 words"Elswick" (Norwood) writes:—"Enclosed you will find my first daffodil, which bloomed last Friday. I'm afraid they are not going to be very fine, for they are rather old bulbs. Will ...
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Article : 56 words"Anti Puss" writes:—"At the outset I might state that I am a constant reader of "The Mail" and always book forward to the gardening notes therein every week. I put in some seedlings ...
Article : 358 words"T. H. M." (Koonamorr) writes:—"I am forwarding to you under separate cover a branch of a gum tree. You will notice it is attacked by some destroying growth, and is dying. Will ...
Article : 115 words"Kalimna" (Penola) writes:—"By same post I send you a small box of flowers. I would like too to advise me through year columns the names of the little blue flower, and also ...
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Article : 213 words"Newlywed writes:—"Reading your valuable information given to other subscribers of "The Mail," I take the liberty of writing to you and placing myself solely in your control in ...
Article : 540 wordsOne of tie finest salad vegetables we have we generally trust to Nature to grow for us. Why I do not know unless it is because most people think it requires ...
Article : 336 words"E. G." (Woodville.)—The [?] number has been posted as directed.—"Balchar." ...
Article : 13 words"St. Peters" writes:—[?] some strawberry plants, and they and very well, but this year instead of growing they have gone back. In most of the plants the leaves have ...
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Article : 135 wordsThe Royal Agricultural and Horticulture Society has arranged for the annual red and spur pruning competition to take place on July 8 next at the property of ...
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The Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1912 - 1954), Sat 4 Jul 1914, Page 11
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