GARDENERS’ 
CHRONECLE. 
would ~ no small benefit to bee. keepers if the author | h 
ve the details of à prod 
all 0 gis ee of what appeare 
credible, when I was Ne i — — a it Was an 
error, the weight of t aving been included 
he 
bee that of the honey, rng! it about double what it 
ought to have been, and yet this trifling error . 
uncorreeted in the next edition of the work. The 
A kind has made 
e Who has no wonders to relate 
[We are waiting for 
$ 7 
especially in end b 
“in good years (wher? honey i is cherp) the re fasbioned 
hee: ae armed with bri 3 ay obta ae 
ë pi spi in average yen 
1 hia 
ate wit Be punished 1 for his a a thie — — 
re of his stocks.” Those acquainted with both plan 
mußt find something not * ery clear in this nes ens; : 
for success, of course, by eicher system depends e 30% 
on the seasons. And as the“ Essex Man” states that 
; eper may b 
eitr 160 ar); a 
s your corresponden 
explain this. In the mean time, I may observe that suc- 
= y eithe 
a 
[ny —— —— avs Convey 
highly us 
an 
me prefer w 
e 
475 on a lar 
have often — ak of drawing up a short paper of in- 
cos in w the mere omission — these — | 
111 -— 10. 
urate information. +. [Such emp —5 ve 
seful] 
Horse Chestnuts as Food. It is now somewhat more 
si in 
t two months ce M. Flandin communicated to 
the Academy of Sciences in Paris the discovery which 
you mention in your ee — of la ek—the seeret 
st we 
of eonverti ing the Horse Chestnut into useful foo 
I cannot suffer the credit of that discovery to be 
from the person to whom it properly belongs, 5 — ally 
— 
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oO 
a 
2 
n eral 
other persons supplied her with 2s many Chestnuts as 
we could collect, im order that the experiment might be 
Be scale. course she could not super. 
ment of it herself, and the person to 
either from want of enfiler ce 
m 
machinery to give it a fair trial, threw up his e 
i he fecula was sent to me, 
bitter ess remainin myself, 
small siia both M. Pandin s methoda nd Ma fim Ber rn- 
ally successful in that re- 
it so much essential oil isa 
ngs have a soapy Se and 
t has fou p N ery useful in 
ut finely the most 
I ip on ding on that the oil 
heat than 
r 
sat the t principle? and I 
of the hives. Bees thrive best when located in hi en 
Y places. Lately moma a to dislodge a colony from 
undér thë leads of a house ; op the bees — been 
only two seasons, dh + rich in store, while 
— t * ek died during Jast winter. 
colony had made fully 1 yard in length and about 2 feet 
opened a 
author of á Urtamen 
Indian 18. J. R.“ = some questions rela- 
tive to India 5 mentioned by the late Dr. Hoff. 
meister, to which a i H 
blues. I sent home to Chiswick many seeds of this, but | r sists coarse and has 
Ia ware wheth own, ie other | moveable lid or door at its apex, through which the ice 
p n is a more difficult one. I paid great attention is thrown when it becomes level with the bottom of the 
the first ughout ls, but when I left the | rafters, where there is a small ak 3 tlie ordinary 
hills I — —.— “tain Picea Webbiana and P. way by which to get the ice out. of the roof 
P or only altered by is about 30°, and it is thatched from 1 to 2 feet thick, | te 
localities “ee which Seren gre hey can easily be i i are 
ed in the herria, where detached speek 
mens alone can be seen v 
n 
slowly, and in very ro xposed localities, and there- 
fore hover ating the e height u that the Pindrow 
in deeper soils re gradual slopes, gees on 
eof i mountain. Dr. Jam ma 
ome the true seeds = n 
thi nger and 
Stoke, — 
Protected Tale —Ther of us who feel 
ntry garden 
the Gardener’s CHFO are d less from 
want of attention to minutite. Ex measurés and 
weights ph i the things tren but small 
things to add; and yet in ma e 
» but am 
in doing justice k Madame 
ntend to pursue * een 
w one that was not | t 
oes a 3 >it i parkie pag rd ably, J. 
ralists — not at all satisfy 
William Munro, Druids ba 
app 
e| the 
the village enipe, — 
e > practice entirely depends upon them, 
anxious to lose n 
Bernhardt. 
sags which I 
s br iek \ well, pos araa donk: drain of 
great bag N and i size is nearly the K me as the 
one — cg below, with iee “radical fau it i 
too deep—a erro 
wrong in in principe, 
— uch ice, an w 
een the bri * ie 
found empty by that ‘iis, although every car. 
i i in filling it 
of dry straw over them, an is continued up “ihe 
sides from 7 to 6 inches thick. The i ice e is well ram re 
and broken. This —, sigh 
well that a second w. e same plan, put 
Serpents m not going to bore of the 
vipat question, pat: N confess the scepticism of Rea b natu- 
me. I now more pa 
to the e N : 
to agree our 
— — manner —ç wien O 
ave my 3 
‘Quha be ordered by "the Admiralty to heate 
officially whet In may have „as he was; but I shall hope 
they will not any report of mine be made public, What I 
‘ofessor should doabt the animal’s 
being a Serpe ent t, for that is nt — — but what do 
me t the e 
ear 
Daedalus told 
pent, | but that they saw — seale, * T maintain ate no two animals 
thei d that the manner of 
| — be fo ore them 
OF | else—u 
skill in devising —.— p 
to be 3 pore starch without — zue = 
I, elf, 
n close by, | © 
a man 
e Mr. Drummond calls a 
more, 
pete the fact will remai ain a fa 
to 
g — 
; but all g 
y rate beyond the 
Renso oning f z 
o be no reason against z K 
—— kinds on shore mig 
as to . the spe 
9 A 
going if or 8 — 1 . N 
iy have hat 
left to go such a pace, Ae “the At 
unaccountable that so few witri — 
the ship’s company are at supper e 
on deck than those mentioned. Before AR conclude, = 
allow me to say that the illustration you bring forward ag 
es 8 of the viper ddl mbt f its yua te 
o prove the opposite of what you 
5 wen you * ae deny — A pr — liquid 
into a red one is afact. To call one water and 
The viper men may 
piso is begg ing the question, 
fort from your own case, dnd verily the same 
evidence in a court of — that they have 8 4 
Capt. R. N. 
h is filled, in 3 R 
ves which slabs ~ placed at the bottom, with a good ¢ 5 
ming in a seal ie totaly uniiket hint ¢ of the animal described 
bot — Captain M‘Quhaea 
grow up, 
abit of pretty accurate tan of external objects, and 
pose 4 2 likel so gross a mistake as is imputed to 
I am sure that they a 
and quite as gre e of doing 80 
on the sp ot (with the an imal before their eyes), as L* Professor, 
i , With the Nlustrat. ews That 
ipiri ah sm ha: — chiefly founded on ot drawi 
in the said and others, as well as himself, have 8 
on the e of — — M Quhae's report. Now, admitting that 
his the ee was as a scientific naturalist would have 
express ed: hinaett-—adanipting that what Capt, M‘Quhae calls 
8 bi ies. 
Cat AN HORTICÙL Exped The 
iiaii — a ere the Experimental 
7th in 5 ro r DUNBAR — the chair, 
a 00d atiplly l be and Apples, many 
s — and excellent bac 
prize 
. Hope, Esq., 
g Aremberg, a and Crassane; 
g the Courtes 
Queen, 
en 
class of enint Sprouts 
offered for Bru i Ace 
€ 
a 8d to Mr. Campbe 
four stalks of Solid oa 
ls! as voted to 
Keeping, -i 
premium to 5 gr. to 
