3 lO * on the life-buoy. yifHlijj 



price runs at present from 3 s. 6d. to 4-s. ^d. Jier stone, of 

 fourteen pounds. 



Weld is so very favourable for bees, that I have know;- 

 Some persons cultivate it chiefly on that account. Wherever 

 it grows there is a perpetual hum of these active insects 

 through the day, aud it seems to be all alive. 



It is cultivated pretty much at large in Efsex, and some 

 parts of Yorkihire, and i*- reckoned a meliorating crop. It 

 does very well, to precede wheat, as it comes off the gf(iuncS 

 ^n good time for that crop. 



The sweet smelling plant called mignionette is of the 

 same genus, and probably pofsefses similar qualities. It i^ 

 equally favourable for bees;, but it does not admit of 

 being so ^easily cultivated. 



The Editor has been obliged to Mr Charles Taylor of 

 Manchester for some of the hints respecting this plant. 



ON' THE LIFE-BUOY. 



Sir, To the Editor of the Bse. 



IVIy attention is sometimes attracted by the buzzing of the 

 Bee, on the wing of which I fiud always painted, directions 

 for the recovery of drowned persons, bat not a syllable 

 with regard to the prevention of persons drov.ning. 



Sailors are amongst the most active sets of men, the life 

 of commerce, and. the great bulwark of Britain ; yet they 

 seldom sip the honey of your Bee till they come along, 

 the coasts, when the wind and waves run so high as to 

 overwhelm boats in the attempt of saving life. WTien the 

 bird i.i tKe fable saved the bee from drowning, by bending 

 the branch of a tree, why Ihouid your Bee, so famous for- 

 philanthropy, delay to be grateful, by making an addition 

 to the directions for the recovery of drowned persons, by 

 strenuoiuly recoieciending ihe use of the li^c-buoy to^aJi 



