PERHAPS never has a season been so rainy as the present one so far. Occasional heavy rains with a few days heat have made up the weather adapted for rapid growth of all vegetable life, and the gardens throughout the country ...
Article : 155 wordsWE have never seen in the Australian colonies a well-grown plant of this popular sweet-scented flower. No summer show in England would be considered complete if such plants were absent; and, as they illustrate great ...
Article : 522 wordsSTRAWBERRY plants should now be yielding full crops, the cool, moist weather conducing to prolong the fruiting season. Now will be apparent the great advantage of having several varieties of the plants, as when one kind ...
Article : 526 wordsNOTHING can be more gratifying than the luxuriance of growth of nearly all crops of culinary vegetables. The season, too, is so encouraging, that not a single foot of soil should be unoccupied. Land just stripped of ...
Article : 232 wordsNo finer plant can be seen than a well grown pyramidal fuchsia; and whether required as a pot plant for the window, for greenhouse decoration, or for the open border, it is equally serviceable in the colony. The ...
Article : 720 wordsTHE Registrar-General's report on the vital statistics of New South Wales for the year 1878, has just been published. The population of the colony was estimated, on the 31st of December last, to be 693,743 persons showing ...
Article : 409 wordsThe moist, warm condition of the soil will admit of extensive transplanting of annuals from the overcrowded patches of seedlings, and if these on being pricked out are well mulched by having a little ...
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