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an inch wide, in this way, ' . * Get a beeliive, and fix a few 

 thin willow sticks up the sides and top inside. Line the inside 

 with canvass fixed to the sticks, and fastened outside the 

 hive. Fix a thin board in the mouth of the hive, making it 

 fit quite close and tight. Then make three holes in the 

 middle, the same as before noticed, which lay over the holes in 

 the division or floor. Then continue making the outside hive 

 until high enough to permit the passage of the other; and leave 

 a door to open, to take it out and put another in. Three sticks 

 are to be placed from the bottom to the holes in the floor, for 

 the bees to creep up into the upper hive, where it is likely 

 they will first begin. When the upper hive is full of honey, 

 take it out and put in another, leaving always what honey is 

 in the under one for their support. When you wish to take 

 the honey, set the hive on a dish, cut the fastening of the 

 canvass and sticks, and shake the hive until the combs slip out 

 on the dish ; then remove the canvass, and the honey will be 

 clean and the combs whole. If any bees remain in the combs, 

 brush them off with a feather, and they will fly back into the 

 hive again. I am. Sir, yours, &c. 



Florence Courts April, 1832. W. Young. 



Art. XII. Notice of a new Transplanting Instrument for Florist's 

 Floivers, invented by Captain Hurdis, R. N. Coraraunicated by 

 Mr. Camekon, Nurseryman at Uckfield, Sussex. 



Sir, 



The new instrument I left with you was invented by Capt. 

 G. II. Hurdis, Royal Navy, residing in Uckfield, Sussex; 

 and it is made, according to his directions, by Mr.-Noves, 

 ironmonger, Uckfield. Its use is for removing plants, bulbs, 

 &c., at any season, and to any distance, with safety ; or into 

 pots, with the greatest facility. As you seemed to approve of 

 the instrument, you will please to give it such a name as is 

 appropriate to it, and say of it what you think it deserves. 

 As Captain Hurdis is a very ingenious gentleman, and takes 

 much interest in gardening, I have no doubt that you will 

 have something else from him ; as he is frequently contriving 

 different sorts of tools for the use of iiis garden and the 

 public in general. I am. Sir, yours, &c. 



Uckjield, Oct. 17. 1832. James Cameron. 



This instrument consists of three parts, a cylinder about 6 in. long, and 

 5\ in. wide, open at top and bottom, and with two handles. {Jig. 1 iO. a.) 

 Tlie edge is serrated, with four saw teeth at bottom, which teeth, with the 

 rest of the edge, arc sharpened by a file. There is a bottom into which 



