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The Honey Season in Scotland. 



Mr. J. Lowe, of Edinburgh, writes as 

 follows to the London Journal of Horti- 

 culture, concerning the season of 1880 in 

 Scotland : 



The past spring opened promising 

 enough considering the sad condition in 

 which the previous autumn found our 

 colonies botli as regards population and 

 stores. Inauspicious weather super- 

 vened, however, and being somewhat 

 prolonged, breeding went on so slowly 

 that in April little progress was percep- 

 tible, the older bees disappearing faster 

 than the accession of the young from 

 the brood cells, so that the weaker colo- 

 nies dwindled away, simply from want 

 of a sufficiency of bees to carry on the 

 necessary work. More favorable weath- 

 er followed in May and June, and breed- 

 ing was again in full progress. Still 

 swarming was not so general as in ordi- 

 nary seasons, and honey-gathering was 

 extremely meagre. Summer honey- 

 yielding blossoms were not so plentiful 

 as usual, and as time went on appear- 

 ances became even more gloomy; so that 

 bee-keepers like myself, who do not ben- 

 efit by a proximity to white clover pas- 



ture, had a poor return of flower honey, 

 and in some cases feeding had actually 

 to be resorted to prevent starvation. 

 But another chance still remained. The 

 heather season was at hand. August 

 commenced under auspicious circum- 

 stances ; good weather set in early in 

 that month. The bees were forthwith 

 dispatched with all haste to seek their 

 fortune among the Pentland Hills, and 

 retrieve, if possible, the short-comings 

 of the summer, and not for many years 

 has there been a fairer prospect of suc- 

 cess. The heath was rich and luxuriant, 

 its purpled blossoms abundant and 

 opening. Could the result under such 

 circumstances, and with a continuance 

 of good weather, be doubted V In a lit- 

 tle over four weeks these comparatively 

 empty hives were brought to their sum- 

 mer stands laden with golden stores, 

 some having gathered from 40 to 50 lbs. 

 of honey. 



Scottish apiarists who have thus 

 availed themselves of sending their 

 hives to the moors and heath-clad hills 

 will find them, even after the appropria- 

 tion of some well-filled supers, in splen- 

 did condition for winter; and it may be 

 hoped that having at last obtained, on 

 the whole, one good honey season, it may 

 be the harbinger of a series of prosper- 

 ous years to follow. 



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 " Mind and Body ; the Theories of their 

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 upon one of the most important ques- 

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