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t advantageous di iti ance to thin nitk au 
ration the 5 ut one-third of the height of the es 
te found ~~ b ke 
— must do, in my 2 from him, and 
eet his 1 m and practi sles wrong in principle, | se 
to proprie etors, ary ruinous to plantations, 
1 his fri end Pinus to th inki for it. 
fe 
a 
fils in Firs till all stand at 33 feet apart. I would ask 
$ ts 
a! We shail give them the t year to establish 
ves, the second 22 will ath 3 inches ; the 
ches ; the fourth, 13 inches; and the fifth, 
ha 
it 
r 2115 go carefully thro oe among t 
arly the state of the hard- 45 — 
h 
that if the siete Nes grown at a very 
l r Mr. Brown or other man 
walk through the plantation & to ma k particularly 
ate of the ard-wood plants ;” a hare or rabbit 
i al 
e an 
PAN and 10 or 12 feet high ! 
us; such a plantation would be 
del for timber as well as shelter, they should rui ined, and there are many iu such a state 
are ra 
3 losely than otherwise, and upon obser- 
te kept rather e 
ly} Man 
; | excellent book w r n ly a century ago by th kept several queens alive three d 
; there 
y | are few, probably, who have = with the judicious ob. nor take the wo 
e | those may be een, to amateurs, T beg o send you 
RE 
late ere and ee Sarge. nance. Nor can I the queen rs ngo 
re only 21 inches. How <- — k they take to do | of 
and 
would ask Mr. 1 8 to point out a single e tion | any 5 . or mark of — One 
treated in this, his own way, that is not injured toan|I gave to four hiv i os — a 
extent almost bey aod, recovery ; if he will name one 1 quantity to each; only two of them survived the fol- 
will go 100 miles see it.—Jas. Young, Land and lowing summer, the other languished gradually and 
Woad Surveyor, Perth Feb. 12. died. At first I used to —— for such err by 
To be continued.) e qu bu * 
wards, more than once, I found her alir e, with dam 20 
ON BEES. or 30 of her subjects, and no want of honey. It ig 
NY persons are possibly ia possession of gees certain they cannot long continue separata. 
I 
ays, during w 
ev. Stephen White Rector of Holton, in Suf. time they would not 2 the hone set befor et 
folk, © On Collateral poss ‘boxes, or a new, easy d Nor 
advantageous Method of managing Bees ;” but 
servations eed Soon followed its publica 1 and as mr ene 
the following tr 
7 erb e. 
servations on Bees Sey ome to the Rev. Stephen swarm in the — — divided into s 
Phiten The public are much indebted to you for your sm ETE parcels ; ne accordin 
i . ss i en is safe, 
nt. uch has be een . vcs er bees, ee when there is provision enough, and no visible sign of 
hottie, I think, so likely to answer the valuable e d| ill usage or mischi 
of increasing their number and the fruit of their labours | know. It is a pity that you who love bees so well should 
the directi iven. Yet I cannot en i i 
as ou have give t I cann -| be able to entertain no larger a number, which m 
tirely approve of everything you have advanced. fortune you impute to the want of a free an 
u seem hink t bees are scarcely ever but I apprehend that the vastly superior plenty of 
killed with cold ; but long experience has assured me honey in the bleak e nty of Camb owing 
the contrary. Instances have unhappily oceurred in | to its being bleak and exposed. Nor hors I say that 
which I could not avoid consider ek "a as the cause | the farmer’s plough, or the flocks grazing there on 
of their destruction. h (more warmly | barren heaths will suffer hardly any — to spring, 
situated than we) represent it iy a i diffeult matter to} &e. ; for those heaths, how barren soever the flocks may 
ecure them from the cold. The author of the nd them, are vastly productive of flowers, which yield 
Natural History of Bees? to which you refer, advises, | the bees such a large and suitable supply as is not to 
I remember, the burial of hives i in the earth, to prevent be met with in your oe meads and fine gardens, 
-| their being exposed to such severities of the seas ason as ‘Ag I hinted before, that in some winters, and in 
; in th — 
e 
writer suggests, yet I have sometimes found boxes, | are very uncertain, and as unequal- as the weather. I 
1 : 
well Si with honey and bees, frozen to death past | have known a hive gain as much 2 oy - in beth the 
t May ber 
e in a. somewhat torpid state ; but that does not always | in particular, I weighed July both, tai again July 16th, 
N t had inereased in 
prove a sufficient defence. Nor can say, as you do, when I found that in those 1 day, 
that they stir not from their places while the cold con- we ight Bites of 12 lbs.— 737 
tinues : for sometimes the rightness of the snow, with 
a litle sunshine, will draw them out to their destruc. e Corre espondence. 
ion. Youadd, ‘and consequently eat not at all.’ To this ‘mee poa (from Mr. George Bu ckle y 24, 
I cannot assent, having weighed many of my hives month 1819) In the limbs were 12 nav 
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te 
not remarkably mild nor otherwise, sually their | lim ing dead. The ies — “of timber in the 
greatest consumption of honey is in September, October, | tree was 48 loads and 11 feet, of 50 feet. to the < 
and April; but in the four intervening months Thomas Harrison purchased this tree at 105/., and (he 
d | they commonly lose in their weight about 4 Ibs. each, said) made upwards of 400. of the timber en, 
pw. 
one with another. The diversity of seasons, number M. Purchas, Pilstone, Monmouth. —— 
y 
e | of bees in each hive, &c., must necessarily make a con- | you give, taken Sate Rove of ths Golynos ( (rot 
siderable difference; nor ean one pretend to give an Gelonos) Oak is believed in Monmouths 
e —In li saw the 
author above quoted should tell us, p. 409, that alin question, butat the 3 it va cut re, sil Header, 
f 
pound of honey is sufficient for the subsistence of the who superintended the fallin of the tree and np aaa 
end. Iba e ts 
light hive with 7 or 8 Ibs., which yet has perished (with | and that there grew from the stem five large limbs, each 
good deal of honey remaining), but I cannot are e one in itself a tree of great dimensions. A drawing 
zon do, with hunger, This you suppose may be owing was made of the tree before it was cut down, 
o the thinning the honey with water, which unfits it t for | engraving was made from it, which was Be 
beep ing all the winter in open cells, But as I seldom Coluaghi, in Spur street. this engraving: 
make this mixture, and sometimes not so much as melt | exact account w as given by Henderson 3 self of 
i d yet have found the liberal supplies I have conversion of the tree ln its original st — — 
HEE 417 
t, AR: * . 
| afforded them ineffectual to their preservation, their | fit for “pah ing, and the whole satement is given 
failure, I think, must be aseribed to some other cause— | on his authori rity, ae fidelity and accurac has never 
toa leg, ne — i, nn 
onsistence, it is, as I apprehend, altogether needless. | (I believe) Go ynos, is district is on the 5 
A d how the ‘ag an a and Ait the honey Called Mt geologists the old red sandstone, whieh” 
into the little bag or bladder formed to receive it, and | isso favourable to the growth of the Oak. It was Quercus 
throw it into the cells ee liquifyi ing it, is not easily | pedunculata, not Quereus sessiliflora, so I conclude at 
intelligible. You add the ees never seal it up as they | least, from Henderson’s having assured me that its 
o the rest of their honey; this I believe is generally the Acorns had a long stalk. Whatever opinions may be 
case, but I had once experience of the contrary. About | heid elsewhere upon the merits of these Sto watietion 
| the large Gelar kale slo fendi, 
i curiosity, by the uncom- The large Gelonos Oak whieh was felled in 18 the 
asg — "M hives I lost — plenty, luse of his oT s Lavy, grew about four miles from 
