June 19.] 
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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
Bk. 
yy just described, have not been followed, and t 
Fee 
wets 
from the 2 ground t} left i ] 
the most ‘importan veh ee in 
But 
L of | treatment i is yet to be named, The hives 
served ina 
state. As = pips, if frosted when 
clearest honey, 
e fo i H 
its ‘coe edge, ais there secured. | tance b Ba 
se act phar hinges ; the ge endie e glass ; and bl f a by all means let a Coane | F 
"i = bekiet. ra aon oor jorgueh ventilation. Win b d ale a = , that the tee 
of get ee the po rough apertures in the ous into their 
aoe iy ve a Ties ts ee wide caw oe of ea a giving the all the air pao fe as by jettin ng down bossy and the then ascend i into their rege = cannot escape 
there is a space also left between them, so that the bottom of the the front lights and opening the doo’ creel the top o the a n the apiary 
frame is quite open for the abundant admissi air o-circalate case of rain. g must rsa will of course exceed the external ca night and any by by 
thoroughly around the sides and bottom of the pots. _ By letting gradu ally withdrawn, so that during Doscasher and _ - at 5° ti 0 20°. This will increase increase the fec 5 
down the front lights only, the plants may be left ig te days fecundity of 
together, exposed to all the advantages of light and air without ici the sil a! just et t from t 
care or notice; and when it is desirable to give them the benefit | be kept wet or damp, the plants will helt P gi . y int} pind 4 2 
of a shower, we have only to remove the top contracting np dara gh of P saffering from fee ie winter | t 1 i} ie wi 
Ci ion of Soil. ere florists to s much | gy — intense frost, the frame must be protected with | sh di in rat aoe 
attention to the general management of the Auricula as | efficient covering; two poten blankets, pet an outer co- tinued ae ard cing a é i gam 
y almost Sees “3 inquiries after post, I ar Me fan press: 3 Popa er eg ‘a — Faas in te side to side, the cold will be Poros cued tin heitbinat 
it = success in its ape st end, apiary. To extract the honey I cut a hole in the to 
hI at present.' The soil most | frost r with of the straw hives, placing “thereon bell-glasses thickly 
suitable (and I only Koken pip tthe blooming time. In win Tfixthe 
fied that they have met with the gran dere) Is Seay as | Seake ‘ntilee dark ity agate ts should have sufficient ae glasses with mortar, inserting in it half a dozen common 
follows : two parts , two y me ii one part Blooming.—. rr the end of February, and during — which are drawn out when ventilation is needed. 
| cow-dung, three rs old; and half x = t coarse river- aot Aes have all the air ak and also To f rtify ¢ the bees against the winter, the ci excised. 
| feuec sone eth ag taller dooms P is replaced, and d by 
in potting, , tich, loamy soil from an old pasture, wers : rye f is 80 invi "tee ‘must | mo ch w be 
| and old frame dung, will b good _Substitutes for sods and | pow also ee top-di = ie 8 . these means, and by ng the apiary oF ad edie = 
| pe a manure, and one part loam, having previously d ber lights. Tam unwill t the present season 
| All g manur pene voided. | the old soil to about the depth of an inch. Cae the begin- | should be lost by those who may to test these 
| Potti: hoct The pots faire a ree should not | ning of April, when bre have pushed up their flower- | suggestions by experiment, 189 there! gress 
| exceed four — at the be oe “three inches at the bot. | d of eee. ‘or confirmation. In 1840 I 
tom, inside m I ied hive onl, from it I ‘extracted 18 pounds 
: 
hard-baked, but left apaowarpeniia Tels 
pots of too large a 
about to sepa, will never bloom fiat, 
refully  aerieany as just described, every night. Me 
, weal me bloomed s for on of the 
confinement the’ frase? grinned frequent waterings and 
excitement of b aes bec ee is very apt fo to con- 
. ‘tract disease, f the 
aes or tap-root, as it is ag “Thi 
P 
foliage 5 
crown of the oui it must be extr: 
or decay will 
drop has accidentally Bot the 
acted by of a 
probably be 
small watering. pot, with a spout a foot. and-a-half long, 
fied 
pa tially hited, 
ity of 
adapted to bees, and if they succeed here they will 
fail anywhere —H regen Oxford. 
Striking Cut 
fully this mode ‘of "eciog ‘catings, as recommended by 
hives’; 3 none of aes ae swarmed and all have gl 
i The localit: 
of the 
have are 
asses 
not 
more- 
1 ee h purp “y wa- | of Senecio, , Chr rysanthemum indicum, and oth and 
| Moreover ide cir Pe anple ine is given . for the pot mention the fact in eran I have been informed of 
with young healthy roots before the ap- en the pn rej selvaiea as’ cere the Currant ‘bei ruck and forced in this way, and 
. pred of winter—the vigorous bloo: m the which has hitherto been exposed t sou bearing fruit wi the water-bottle.—7. 
és 9 bere what tis urray. [Mr. Towers, also, since i an ac- 
oo put at | ble, the plants may be orl under hand-g | count of his in sameway. In fact, it is an old 
- pot and a half of | calm and shaded ssid a bod kg anon ri page admitted | practi alised till lately. We shall 
2 garden-pots ; on arom place a thin layer at the bottom The i to it cuttings comes formally 
of aoa ogion y me, "placed a shaded | us.] 
filling up the interstices between t =a pai poor the garden, with in benefit of two ata morning 
paekgy-aid> 
over, furnish a most acceptable nidus for toes roots of 
ok ieten Next fill up the pot within about two inches 
so with the cdalipi, leaving it slightly 
pots are not placed on the ip but on 
ined specimens of Howqua 
Assam Tea.—I have exam 
and Assam t eas, Bees 
as impo orted by Captain Pidding. 
—“* 
athe ata of the cone vn a little ‘sand, on this place the 
end of the tap. root, and 
£ ats 
d back of | the frame, 
, freely 
ie a 
} 
as may b 
tannin. re 
larly over it, let the pot be filled nearly to the brim, so 
that a soil just covers es sega of ber ret ot leaf. 
= pot smartly tw three ti the 
# 
ecto d then ee it to its pad Bore geaess a hes 
water must be give! just suflicie nt to moisten the soil, 
c In filling the 
pet wi compost, Tal ys put in about three 
of acer or rather r eaagiee’ leaves, not aes aging 
‘eeok + sacle and aise Inrepotting the | ing year, an 
ts will be surrounding and 
tore and through 
; they at once afford 
most seeptable nourishment a nd. pst, 
a 
fingers’ full | 
way, by , as the cold air is thus 
suffered to blow directly upo m the expanding 
hence the very great ables of the con ttivaies | 
the expee nd, the smallest, least 
ned | 
of five When i full | 
bloom, the ae tests may be par cas: Wane any ‘other situation 
© grower may fancy, as to a cool, airy ouse, 
purventad iy kd 
ee fini beauties can be more 
othe Te properties « of the | Aauricula have — a truly given | 
ith the 
the foregoing 
¥ . 
prepared by careful oplink ‘off the old's soil 
inor points of been pote 
at the iiect might not appear 
any pea e disease may be detected, in aio case it 
should be eff a sharp knife, and the 
_main root should then be shortened to within alos bed beg 
the leaves, leaving only the young and new 
it and the dwindli 
> 
inde spe are the result of many cick coef expe 
the plant.—F. 2. 
Horner, pies 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE: 
itten upon the management | J, 
pla ants : = it Us most injurious to se air in cael common | 
and 
struck mi 
leaves of the oe ssam tea, chat 
par double that ~ 7 
surprise, 
viridis = Thea "Bates e 
| founded; for you that 
ee that all the vi varieties 
e and the same plant ; relat , and 
other acrldentalrcumstanc as neared 
fully aware 
colori)— 
vient a cnn 
of ne ee 
leaf. are certainly 
a Bobea has been 
Wilks distinguished as be: hisey of | 
country, informed me that ie black tea was altogether 
un whe Nae ese Tartary ; and I have been told of a 
having built _. ost among the branches of a 
cultivated in pen air, in Hampshire. 
nig 
Thea viridis - 
J. Murray. 
is tl 
decay mi il the Oil ood 
see i | 
a 
; 
5 
t 
i 
F 
: 
= 
va 
t i 
am about to offer: for insertion in the Gar- 
rhesny: Chews Ti 
" iotoe of Ee aves.—I have never found this circum- 
stance more remarkably displayed than i in the case ( of the 
‘ Forget- 
have them, meee amongst the In the 
tried number. 
summer, the intense heat of the sun on the wood some- 
fall : 
Dorit enc Fat be apt into 
—— TEL 
very flower-stalks, when laid 
2 ut: Eile: for 
| ont, os Aaron’s rod, have ~ blossomed. 
My worthy 
é - Lychnis. 
ot only — individual i joints “ike, 
, two distinct 
is, Ay anand the 
- Wasps.—From the ti i appear- 
‘ance here till the | 3ist a. the nu mher de- 
by the 1201. Hf 
oue cg ley at this season is :* soya a ‘pega a 
alate, 
aprerrion m, till 
sa sbjest to their | 
boat the same _icouragement, 
t be s 
allows | “oven prgengied place. 
n whenever necessary, without in | numbers would abe by 
that there geiaeek 
Bat th 
every . 
swarm, 
he 
