Life in the Garden
Practical Advice for Amateurs
IMPORTANT TO SHOW SECRETARIES. We invite Secretaries of all Horticultural Societies ia the Dominion to forward the dates of their forthcoming events for publication. These will be inserted free of charge. J*
lovely hybrids are to be seen in Germany. This new. G. Jamesoni gigantea gives flowers to 5 inches in diameter on steins three feet high. The colour is sea rtet.
Good results are reported from the use of nitrobacterine upon sweet peas in England, the treatment hastening the growth and maturity of the ptants by weeks over those not so treated. Nodoubt the same results will be gained with ordinary field l Peas and garden varieties.
According to Mr. Manifold, Victoria, sea-sand is useful as a mechanical divider of the soil. He has carted hundreds of draytoads of sea-sand for his garden, aJid found that the soil was now infinitely more productive.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 19, 4 November 1908, Page 41
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152Life in the Garden New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 19, 4 November 1908, Page 41
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