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ns an equal thickness or length wid eotnets? increase 
the value of the collection. The centre of a tree is a most 
important part of the specimens ; or obtaining this 
jn trees where the whole segments are too large to carry, 
triangular parts of such segmen ay be chopped off with 
anaxe or hatchet, by which me 
parts will be obtained. justs hu 
it may be as well to observe that, on the other hand, there 
js no shrub so small of which the wood (stem) is not of 
importance ; each s an be procured with a knif 
ck d the apn bs different so 
all the foregoing instruct d not accomplish the 
perfect usefulness of eceapeeer i it the sees of — to 
which they belong shou There are few 
tah woul eae  whilat travelling in 
deter mice at once the plants whose 
ween t 
Pi 
em. resin before me, I tied my little 
branches to the paper in ‘which the former w in 
This, as everything else in collecting, must be done care. 
fully, and never left until the collector has come home ; 
branch should be ti i i i 
such things. as aad appear trifles, but are in Fonlity 
Sabet ‘anit al.— A Traveller. 
Cc emistry as apphicabte to Agriculiure.—The ‘public 
0 
ject of Manures. 
hem 
which n 
ne composition. If, eee b 
vanced, plants derive the whole, or almost the 
their carbon by thei es i 
c might as well be spread ont 
d also to contain er _ 
on of: reaibane acid. We 
nefi 
ded 
riments of chemists with plants growing in air from 
the sun ere has been excluded, in which it has 
t 
it renews its surface of leaves much sooner than it would 
have done its roots, had these gre cut away. This may 
partly arise i f cient absorbent sur- 
; but the 
t pow egetation, 
le d though the faliage of pha higher 
classes of plants undoubtedly posses 
d 
ses the ower, 
yet a separate and more perfect absor bent atone seems 
necessary for their wan ow far i y be possible 
to render p vigorous ils nearly destitute of or 
» has never yet been put to 
tee ae | 4 sna at leat be ‘admi tted to be very doubtful if 6 
a poor hun d, or barren clay, destitute of organic re- 
mains, the same a ares of 1 description could be raised of 
equally vigorous grow rom 
inorgani 
confirm o: ‘roy theoretical opinions. It will be diffi- 
cult to get practical men to believe that bulky farm-yard 
anure is not the most suitable for their crops, yet the 
preponderan opinion amon fic men seems 
to lean to the opposite side. In the present state of agri- 
culture the opinions of scientific men a ght after with 
avidity ; and if Dr. Gregory had leisure to add his quota, 
it would undoubtedly be very acceptabl Schleiden 
has also r his opinion that the chemical power in 
prelate 
ucing their new bulb without eve 
leaf rats ground, i 
It is also f 
¢. 
ste do not exhaust the soil so mu ese sub- 
jects information would be valuable and acceptable. It 
matters little the form in which the ions are issued ; 
be attended 
is as yet only in its in mre St can 
at which is too Ss ger; nor, 
n the present sing for information, i is a tree risk ofa 
— nt of sale for of such m r. Liebig 
as been a little rhe asty in arriving at some of his conclu- 
and that Dr. Schleiden has perhaps felt it too perp 
ible; but the valuable acre ation to be derived fro 
edge on chemistry ae phy- 
leave niertlialen else in the a de.—R 
Poniederia crassipes. — s desirous of 
fonering this sae I beg to refer him to the method of 
cultivating it, as mentioned in Vol. 1 Loudon’s ieee 
ry carefully pinchin 
parted appear, the plant 
mnths of September Seid Sere 
Clank 
Bees.—In reference to the questions he the 
treatment of bees, proposed in your number of June 25, 
bya lady and by Rusticus, I offer the results of my experi- 
honey from a side box, made according to Nut 
the most simple way is, to take the box off its board, 
ec the 
plan 
ront 
ands ; when be in, t 
to rejoin the queen and the rest of their companions in th 
middle box. It s for the np 
this operation, to wear a wire mask, such as is used by 
fencers, having a bit of h sewed Lt round the edges, 
which may be tucked inside the coa ie ts of 
pontoon o hands. The alarm, he 
tapping and by the sudden ——— eof the bees is ‘ay 
light, will arena them fro: 
coolness and hasty or v violent atid: 
The tapping must he — fot ‘Tightly otherwise there is 
a joosen e tender combs, and suffo ocating 
aga youc 
—— — afraid to adopt ether of the above metho ds, 
he ma e Pam box, till they fall 
re a ‘trons the combs. "To" effect this, it is necessary 
place some dried puff- age or fies soake nitre, in 
a peel ‘orated tin vesse at ich they will boi and the 
smoke escape setae danger of the bees falling on the fire 
b Ther 
make i up for these deficiencies. It i is known 
Practice, that when t the top of a headed down, 
tely. In about 
stupified by the smoke, and on tapping the upper box, 
most of them will fall from the combs into the e: empty one; 
but a few will probably ee inse into the 
cells to the enone and will there remain. ove 
fire from amongst the apparently dead 
ith 
water. 
osed to the oon as and 
middle box, who will 
the 
a 
nm o 
soon leave it on reviving, if the box Pp bot 
upwards in a shady place, or screened with a cloth near 
the hive. may here mention, that I have this season 
taken a straw hive full of honey, worked like one of Nutt’s 
side boxes; and that the bees we u eave it, 
y e sbees ow fast 
oe another straw hive, plac Fe "4 the side of t their own, 
e€ 
well as a bell glass on the top. y are set up on 
doubting board, as haa in Mr Taylor's “ Bee- 
eeper’s Manual, . 21,” This plan answers 
the gto of Nutt’s boxes, enabling com straw hiv. 
sed ; 
the evening, when all th 
prepared a small basin full of thin sugar and water, ina 
ate can arose, let an assistant gently raise the 
box containing the new swarm, and place it, bottom up- 
wards, on the ground, t e i is to be 
joined ; whilst you water the c r of bees in it with the 
sugar and wat Then let the assistant place the box, to 
which the first is to be united, g i 
necessary, a wet roller-towel may be tied round lin 
Non ah rd hea a 
one perso 
be a stick, against the sides of the lower box; when i 
nhabitants will gradually, with a loud ieee crawl up 
and mingle ea ith the box above, who 
beh ove 8 as not to thi resisti s 
After about ten minutes, when the sound seems 
to ‘have left Ge lower en leave them tied togethe er till the 
aes phased on its s ° for 
the ttbeble of ae oa "ee queen, an pi takin, 
hive ; ose the bees Pwd a ippapamens! wd 
one out a = wit Feehan I performed this 
es er only a a fe 2: be ih with perfect 
a previuks & priving a 
hive of its honey, without the mg Pep a ea” It is well if 
the hives to be un ave ing next to ‘silt 
other Laie piteg © If the ted are in straw 
in boxes, the bottom hive, from which the 
hives, and no 
i ast be suppor 
the passage 
ves which pt t 
thus rendered much stronger the 
done this for cottage 
Ss 
n 
on 
side ray and makin 
ne = stock from which they swarmed ; but 
no 
