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ts. As far as rds drainage, it argues thus: if | Besides the humble-bees, I saw some hive- nm the | spond Moreover, the florist, I believe, ough * 
their po' gape ee he pape well digest, | Pentstemon ; sm were, however, much less dexterous, and | to praise co she for this Ray ert method of obtaining ~ 
it does him harm 5 P and if the oo has more water than } Sa ali lighted across the fiower, or on the calyx, and | nectar, jyeemgt o ite old-fashioned natural o: one: forlet 
, The orifices in all the RSA a pd him look how nik scratched the lower petals of sor 4 
J. Cooper, Battersea Fields. corolla: I ma + inane po fora nstance, those of the eric Ss Toseus, and 
Wash against Mildew on Peach Trees—In p.51i, threfare, peete to find, ave by, a “arge | bed 0 ig-P The litte wr. 
corres wishes to know of a eure for mildewed oid 4 
Péach-trees. Tam happy to t d i ner ular slits, or holes, on = under side of | the at the ‘month, La hardly visible 5 wea all ‘the | seat i 
which I have made use of for upwards of 20 pty) and | aoe at its base, Zit to the imu tts: bre 
er failed im making a perfect cure the uy in Linaria, and therefore di tly sadly defaced. “Let any 0 ‘ o doubts the or de bees 
of alcohol and 2lbs. of sulphur; mix them together, and | front of t en. F I of hermaphrodite flowers att 
with a small paint-brush, in es dpriain. when the ‘buds nie 1g 5 these ori they cannot be se 
are ie Ra paint the trees all over, on both young and | turning u the flower ; j but the neem ble-bees_ “seemed to stigma of this Mimulus licks oar the he ct 
old wood. ht to beu nailed, so tha at every thod of which is oa se 
and never hesitated ieee to go, but quickly 
e flower Sep that of another. 
part may be nae 
whiskey o d both t In 183 
I had posite ake trees very pene midewe so much 
‘so, that the fruit was rendered u 
alrea 
| and then how adm ouavaloan at “he 
endowed with a pair Be ica, tak ie 
Iw 
Now I can speak positively, as far 
tof two summers goes, s, that country humble-bees are 
waa I ge the mixture effect nantes a a leaf w: 
ees made strong healthy shots, and this 
not so cunning, an nt invariably crawl into the flow er by 
| forcing gy nit rig -ae lower lip; y 
h them. 
Be. ahr Woodford. = ; 
As I presume you are the 
v 
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All the are of § ‘Salvia Gra 
paren iw aad which iff 
and t 
~— “of the garden, were bor and o he ~— 
may I s olicit your appeal in favour of a Chesnut- -tree 
the two pias sei # ‘Same an 
Pentstemon, I could not find one > without its little orice, 
lid I Neverthe! les 
ve Maks to ieeiteetint m on the edge of the | 
, Sir W. de Crespigny, at Denmark- hill Road, Camberwell, 
hough not be rn 
I found, and the fact ; appears to me very curious, 
so quickly from flower to flower on th 
Antirrhinum, or those which bored 
| the Pentstemon, or those which bor calyx and 
5 
d through cal 
corolla i ‘in the Salvia, would tell or Sprengel hat or hae 
they stir | 
it 
‘2 
+ 
5 
picturesque tree, dered a favouri ag 
psd 
5 
th 
it 
ag org resident in Cad oth parish, fr 
i d leaves fall three weeks in every 
Season aa be any other Chesnut that is known. This 
arams Sri heard it was to be cat down, though it is in 
2 lower elie = the flowers of two 
former plants I } 
hich hy 
little gee dh pert closed ore T have ‘atch ie 
in the usual 
suck twenty-fo ur fl 
the flowers of the me Pana > One is yoke xu to aoe 
P J 
plants oaths humble-bee as it came, 
ok and clever Serene ti 
g G Cedars going th and Tean not ‘finding a hole ready cut, _ tho ought it Fas — gi to 
| blici f th than to ; but | sembles the Downton in the ge — but is h larger, 
bour may save it—* [We wish we could succeed. that on the beds of the same flowers, som pha many da P fuse bearer, fine for preserves. “Myatt’s Pine. 
Surely no one would be so ill-advised as to destroy such in getting honey, some apple we have seen to gee profasly a light rich, sandy 
a tree ut some pressing necessity. Nothing | set to others copied the example. | alluvial soils, near the In ations, other 
is so barbarous as the indiscriminate destruction of fine | From the com parati ive fewness of the hive- gener csr are apt to aah out sa ‘a runners, and 
trees. Pentstemon, their evident awkwardness in finding the | for such Myatt’s Pine is well adapted.— R. Lymbuirn. 
‘arnations and Picotees.—We have received seve fices, and the smallness of their mandibles, I can hard! Awiculs Frame.—aAt p. 296, Dr. Horner gave some 
inquiries regarding the best Carnations and Picotees doubt they were profiting by th tkmanship and the | account of an Auricula frame, which we have no doubt is 
owhich have recently made their appearance, and which | example of the humble-bees rified, it | one of the best contrivances yet ea for many other 
can be recommended as show-flowers of first-rate pro- | will, I » beav gr ae case of acquired know- plants besides Auriculas, 2 and es peta y for or Alpines. One 
perties. fi ing list contains wha! ee — noticed | ledgein sects. _We f ote ubts as to 
as being the best :— Bucknell’s crimson | } P th wh 7 1 r. Horner 
bizarre,—the petal is of a fine ree even 0 ‘on ‘the ed edge, | hard-suelled fruit; how h ught we to be in | has been so po op B fitelie’ us with” ‘the "following 
and clearly marked, white pu i f facul- | plan and ae caplaition aoa the ‘oa send the 
m and plenty of’ petals; Chambers? Kate, p trod ar ties, which are generally reers ed to be in inverse rati W., orkm nce wh ey — 
purple biz., large and well-f petals, fine Wy, Ry rane Mor , from what I have above | it. It i end v the fra oi aie 
pod, and the colour well ; Bucknell’s Talma, Antiehinoan, 1 much suspect that | ment, is af gin. at the cans 3ft. sin. A front, ft. ‘Sin. in in 
er. biz.,colour well in narrow stripes; Twitchet’s oP practice ot boring hol in its flowers i is likewise a ps th, from front Hg back, and 15i! m the aor 
Don John, sc. biz., a flower of extr & Fike Dette ae shelves is 
eolour ; ‘Martin's Splendid: this is one of ‘the finest se. it instinctively or not in other Pte fengeh 3 ho? com we igh) is 
biz. d slight! said that country hu mble-bees appear ppear to be less outing wt 2in. “the ae ole 
even on the edge, with a good distribution of the colours. in Sta b iddile tt 
a —— Headley’s Empress of the Purples, | fords he ire, some in the a ing hol ply that the pots ay abe stand in wet or rasp, .. 
dark p fe flake; Headley’s incognita, light par. fi. the corolla of the Rododendron releoides;¢ the greater | air th this is, 
Wilso: it 8 ne Herviet, a rose flake of fine pro g the of the corolla, as in ndeo oa: was convinced, important, for I always found large, See- 
a rival to Br raae on Gast Wiese fog f dillat healthy roots, into the 
Leices ter, se. fi. ; lington, fl. or he ees from meighbour ing Azaleas—this aie mt crocks, as if in the enjoyment of air, very different fromthe 
Willmer’s Endymion si Sat coe beh ae ir having a single grain of pollen of its own, _ One bee wi erstge “ape al half-rotting mass, when my plan of 
nard’s Mrs arnard the properties of this flower f some of ¢ fol- 
noticed, p “us e are not certain if it will be I t this shows that the d 
his season : if — readers to. procure ody to save re toubl and not because the bee « 
Barrand’s Bride as a substitute, a delicate rose, , light. extrac t the ar from the long hy 
sang Pte ye egg ork ey ri yle, ge eg e is also evident that the b t th 
arge i pe wer ~rate peeennie > rv les because they can bid 
raud’s Eclipse, a very heavy-edged eri t’ of another, a amber | 
Lady Dacre, light-ed. wai cP Tose; this “flower rome on the te edge of t the lower ip. I have ie on br 
nbles Waines’ Queen Vietori ns they are able to visit twice the number o 
opening better, and will, Your ores, (. “is5) | 
a tga robe Cornwall, - seoesiese : re Bara ad's sr that the Honeysuckle is. sometimes bored 
> s Po eavy- ppened to notice this, but I have seen lene erin; 
ed. rose; Huiton’s Nehemiah, very heavy-ed. purple ;| humble-bees show much skill in forcing open the a 
Wilson’s Fanny Irby, light del. ros "3 mo! the and extrac 
t-ed. R. ~ed. red ; Col. ag i add that as the. aa 
sai 
ct, and regular in 
. ag oo flowers — 
appeared thi 
light-ed. red; Peel, hea 
Foreman, light ed. pur., colour very distin 
its pencilling. There are, 
Sessi. rst-rate properties 
could mgs 
aw 
so ee 
eight rough- 
cle = they - supported midway by a rest, 
as at the ends. 
was absolu utely close, withou it any one ots 
; those, oe aw: eng atautenl | vertical section of the frame; aes a shelf with 
eve, we we have mentioned we can recommend. y gave it up. Your d th 
Bee. ps y like | fi p to th Stra po aah Bove zag of pre — ; 
to es “the few more particulars about the humbie-bees | but when we remember how the petals of Toy flowers plants for aes Eoin en bare for 
which lowers thus extract th lated time ip - cunageniice bu Ab 
This operation has heen performed on a large scale in the re fot fructification, ell the last ve years adopted a plan which answers eee 
‘Near the conceive they ma be ‘indicate th ( the by which good e 
fine bed of Stachys coccinea, every flower h Ss wg Mira making the ogee, tone |b Se a ae eee "The ¢ I use is 
pon and ees nh small irregulat rear or orifices, i with Keen’ 
on the upper side of th la near its base. I observed | f ‘Tb bserved that wh ili h pest foe ; 
— ian of Meee of Peru, and of Salvi  coccines, | ma re = er poet ios utd hades niece oa Eel ie ai spiel Grove-ead os jews. The 
with holes in similar posi but in Sal r or early forcing oe other 
por devghets ee zat through the porate which > an pe base - as pot wet pro wing- a Strawberries wanted by th e end se 
: Pent- ther with th fpr b whi ich ovem: Havin g filled h t, = pe are 
Per np aor ernment than i in the above flowers, cna gen : togethe: oo ouch ie <2-ghe a = to as ters, and arranged on a 
= holes are : ze ae he's kody, alee ady | sid te vee dies est the vannerk: besa middle 
other, and jot above ‘the calyx. All these orifices | are well dusted with the ities en of other flowers of Jal, hen the A pave are emitting roots, is cously 
P mats: a overlooked; I first noticed | the same species. If all those ce even Semganacisean ts o begin th . or “of agar oe 3 having et Pe routed 
edanasel ‘Since, when, from the of their = seme which are attractive — alm prepare area a Lamang Pate. og ners that 
S 4 ae ta bs ede been time before. ge rvention maed: and their rools 
ain de. . od x ocean are a by rd obabali ity by i Sprengel “(Entd. Geet ), to inserted i in the pots isend i pegged dome. : aoe ined 
E: x ene oagpent pe meeps ‘twenty and: pane ieee vente ie a bees, » the begi bra . oe canal yt the r-plant, ss4 
dace cr st a | ces ns es ned tian | Eo, te er ree ar 
oS s over ing _ stamens and pistils, arn so = ‘final are eecegee = 
aoe -Orifiees, into which t they most decry nr . I can ne, that | month, I detach them from the old plants, and —— 
a Pi 
the wreiy proposed by your rm 
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