to market gardeners especially, and in those establishments where kitchen gardening is 

 carried on extensively, it will be most valuable. The inventor of this inultum in parvo in- 

 strument is C. K. Sivewright, Esq., of Edinburgh, who had it tested in the presence of a 

 few who are interested in horticultural pursuits. Its cost is about £4 [or twenty dollars.] 

 The implement is so constructed that it can be used with five hoes or cutters, and, by means 



of a simple contrivance, it can be extended or reduced to a width of from twelve inches to 

 two feet. By removing the cutters, and inserting iron teeth about eight inches in length, 

 it can be made to answer the purpose of a fork ; and by moving these, and placing side 

 knives in the form of a plough, ridges can be thrown up with great ease. We were told 

 that the saving of labor with one of these implements was very great, one man doing easily 

 and most effectively the work of four ; indeed, we are quite convinced that it is of great 

 practical utility in the culture of turnips, cabbage, and other green crops. — London Florist. 



Bees wintered under Ground. — A communication, relative to the preservation of bees 

 during winter, has just been made at the Royal Central Horticultural Society, by Mr. Saillet, 

 Jr. The principal facts contained in it are as follows : — 



"The experience of M. Forstner, Instructor at Havengan, reported by the Society at 

 Munich, seems to prove it possible to preserve bees under ground during winter. 



" In a part of his garden, quite sheltered from dampness, M. Forstner dug a deep well of 

 eight feet, four feet long, and three wide. The bottom was filled with pebbles to the depth 

 of a foot. To protect the bees from any water that would trickle through, this first bed was 

 covered with another one, composed of pine leaves, which received in its turn a bed of 

 beaten flax of a foot in thickness. 



"The 30th of October, he lowered into this pit two hives, containing two vigorous swarms. 

 At the extremity of each hive, he had adapted several pipes of quill pens, open at each 

 end, intended to allow the air to enter ; the one weighed about sixty-three pounds, and the 

 other thirty-two. The spaces between the hives were filled lightly with pea haulm ; the 

 whole covered again with about half a foot of pine leaves ; at last, the excavation was 

 hermetically closed by an old broken door, which was covered over with a little earth, 

 trampled upon. 



"The temperature being warm, the 21st of March, of the year following, Mr. Forstner 

 withdrew his hives, and discovered they had lost nothing in weight. In the smallest, in 

 closing a young swarm, which had as yet constructed only the half of its house, he found 



