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JOUBNAL OF HOBTICULTUBE AND COTTAGE GABDENKR, 



[ Jalj 1, 1876. 



jdlow shade of colonr. The dwarf growth is clothed with 

 handsome foliage. A fine Eoee. 



Viscomleate de Cazes. — Useless for bouquets owing to the 

 looseneea of the flowers, but so rich in colour — a bright golden 

 yellow — as to merit a place. 



Madame Level. — This is another kind with thin loose flowers 

 of bad form. It is a free-blooming kind, but unworthy of wall 

 space. 



lluhens.—'Bxx'Xa of medium size, yellowish white, with a 

 charming pink tinge ; elegant recurved petals. A fine Bose, 

 ■with handBome foliage. 



Madame Bravy. — A delicite kind, of little merit. 



i/orti'Hsia.— Another delicate kind, but with fine, large, rosy- 

 pink flowers. An txeellent variety. 



Triomphe de Luxevibourg. — This has rose-coloured flowers, 

 tinged with copper. The buds are good. Growth of medium 

 vigi ur. 



Narcissc. — Flowers white, with a charming yellow tinge. 

 The exquisite form and delicate colour of its buds render 

 this a most desirable kind. 



Madame Azi'lie Imbert. — Pretty little cream-coloured buds, 

 ■which are very useful ; but like its parent Madame Faloot, its 

 expanded flowers are worthless. 



Souvenir d'tin Ami. — This fine old Bose still holds its own, 

 and is worthy of a prominent position. It has beautiful 

 flowers, full, and of a charming pink colour. 



Madame Margottin. — The yellow flower buds of this kind 

 are good, and the foliage handsome, but the expanded flowers 

 are worthless. 



Madame Falcot. — Buds of exquisite form of a deep fawn 

 colour. Somewhat resembling Safrano, but infinitely superior 

 to it. 



Madame Hippoli/te Jamain. — A very Iree-flowering kind, 

 but unworthy of wall space. 



Momieur Furtado. — Pretty flower buds of a delicate yellow 

 shade. 



Madame Mulanie Willermoz. — Large creamy white flowers 

 tinged with pink of the Gloire de Dijon type. It is an excel- 

 lent kind, vigorous in growth and very free-flowering. A fine 

 Bose. 



GoubauU. — A vigorous free-flowering, deep-flesh-coloured old 

 Bose, valuable for its buds, which are flue in form and distinct 

 in colour. 



J^'iphetoi. — An excellent large white kind ; the flowers are 

 pendant, full, and well formed. 



Jean Pcrnel. — This is an excellent variety, bearing well- 

 formed flowerp, full, and of a delicate pleasing shade of yellow. 

 The flower buds are very useful, 



Sombreuil. — A white kind with a delicate pink tinge, very 

 good and well-.-haped flowers, of vigorous growth, with fine 

 foliage, and excellent in every respect. 



Due de Mayenta. — A free-flowering kind, with nice useful 

 buds and flowers of a novel yellow and pink tinge. 



Lamarque 7i Jleurs jaune. — The opening buds of this variety 

 reveal a charming interior of rich bright yellow. They are 

 exquisite in form, yet they, like so many others, expand into 

 comparatively worthless flowers. It has handsome foliage, and 

 is quite indispecs b'e for its buds, which are really unique. 



Comte de Paris has pretty pale pink flowers. The buds are 

 useful. 



Perle de Lyon. — This is so delicate with mo that I am quite 

 unable to form an estimate of its worth. I shall be glad to 

 learn more about it from others. 



Montplaisir. — This is another of the Gloire de Dijon strain, 

 having large flowers, but wanting delicacy and refinement both 

 in the form and texture of its flowers. 



Belle Lyonaise is also a seedling of the prolific Gloire de 

 Dijon. Its flowers, of a deep canary yellow, are fuU and well- 

 formed. 



Belle Maconnaise. — The flowers of this kind are so decidedly 

 inferior in every respect that I shall discard it. 



Adrienne Christoplile. — Anovel kind, with very high-coloured 

 flowers of a rich coppery yellow, and with a pink centre. It is 

 worthy of a place. 



Bouton d'Or. — This has charming little bright ycUow flower 

 buds, which are very useful. It is a valuable dwarf-growing 

 kind. 



Victor PttUiat. — The flowers of this are of the most paltry 

 description — loose, ragged, and thin ; they are without a tingle 

 redeeming point even under the best culture and in a warm 

 sheltered potitiou. 



Climbing Devonietisis. — This is a splendid variety in every 



respect. It is wonderfully vigorous, bearing its fine flowers of 

 the true Devoniensis type most abundantly. The shoots of a 

 small plant which was planted against a 10-feet wall between 

 three and four years ago reached the top so quickly, and the 

 entire plant was so vigorous, that it was transplanted to the 

 south front of a building about 50 feet high ; it has now 

 attained a height of about 20 feet, and will probably cover the 

 entire fpioe allotted to it in course of two or three years more. 



Triomphe de Rennes. — This has pretty little flowers of a 

 delicate yellow shade, but ia unworthy of a prominent position. 



Solfaterre. — This fine old Bose requires a considerable share 

 of wall-space to develope its full excellence. Its large, full, 

 and wtU-formed flowers are of a delicate and most charming 

 shade of yellow. — Edwakd Ldckhuesi. 



BEES AND COTONEASTEB MICROPHYLLA. 



Thocgh not an apiarian I confess to be interested in the 

 hive bee. I know of bees only outside their hives — nay, those 

 I know now are not in hives, but have their domicile in the 

 roof of a house. There are two colonies of them, one of very 

 many years' standing, and the other came from a neighbour- 

 ing apiary three years ago. The new comers sought entrance 

 to the roof by the same opening as the old colony had ; but 

 though mighty in numbers they had to be content to take to 

 the north side of the roof, the old one having an entrance at 

 the southern side. Whether they fought for possession of 

 the entire roof or location is not known, but that the new 

 comers were satisfied may be inferred from the fact that they 

 were very fractious for some days before they settled down, 

 and until the old colony had cast off a swarm. What made 

 me notice them particularly were their coming in great num- 

 bers and flying round the eaves of my cottage as if in quest 

 of new quarters. Between it and their quarters the creatures 

 maintained a string or line along some railings, reconnoitreing 

 slowly as they advanced from, but were less guarded or sped 

 them swifter in returning to, quarters. So far as the railings 

 went the bees followed them, and from where the railings 

 turned at right angles they took a straight flight to and fro 

 to the roof. Pugnacious were they, making attacks on all 

 approaching near their road of march. They searched the roof 

 thoroughly all round, and finally returned to head quarters, 

 where they have remained in quiet ever since, not casting a 

 swarm that I know of. Whether the new comers are re- 

 sponsible for a swarm that found its way to the roof of a lodge 

 about half a mile distant I shall not speculate upon, or whether 

 they are the instigators of the spies which have lately been 

 seen busy round the eaves of the said lodge, and intend inva- 

 sion at a not distant date, may not be as clearly shown as to 

 carry with it the force of conviction ; but that runaway bees 

 know beforehand whither they are bound at the outset seems 

 clear from their straight flight to the settlement. It is not a 

 hovering around the old habitation, and settling upon branches 

 near, but a clear case of mind made-up beforehand, requiring 

 only at the juncture to be acted on. 



The finding of runaway swarms on branches of trees is no 

 proof that search has not been made for a domicile before the 

 exodus, for it may be the queen is unequal to the task, and 

 settles where she does of fatigue, surrounded by her clamorous 

 subjects. Is it proven that a swarm so left would perish, 

 and not after a halt renew the journey ? Failing this, would 

 the bees not return to whence they came out, minus it may 

 be the queen ? And what would be the good of continuing the 

 journey if the essential of their existence were not capable of 

 reaching the destination marked for the new colony ? It would 

 be a mercy to dispatch the queen and return to their old friends, 

 or both may return together. Anywise it seems to me (excuse 

 my knowledge of bee-ology) contrary to the philosophy of 

 nature and instinct for a swarm of bees to be driven out or of 

 its own accord leave a hive, not knowing whither it is bound, 

 or without means instinctive of selecting one. Can it be that 

 the "cultivated" bee is so accustomed to have its habitation 

 provided as to lose the instinct peculiar to it in a wild state 

 in providing itself with a domicile ? and are not runaway bees 

 evidence of the full returning of their instinctive power? — a 

 return from the cultivated to the natural state. 



Bees, runaway or home, how fond they are of the flowers of 

 the Cotoneaster miorophylla. Every flower seems to be 

 possessed by a bee, and hnmble bees are also bu^y in sharing 

 in the sweets. Upon no shrub or plant have I noticed the 

 bees so busy as upon the flowers of this. Salvia nemorosa and 

 Heather (CiUuna vulgaris) are no exceptions, but they flower 



