THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Avavsr 6, 1864, 
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anatomicum, which is 
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cha eof k will be admitted is a distinct o g day’ and 
wasa g ll w wp eui» July 
tion ; pr bb ut 130 species ae M b 
of whi ch obconellum, ii and € phys b 
appeared the most rw d bes with M Since 
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my letter appeared in your columns I hay 
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any years, and nothing could be more | its own leav res. Théra v were also Euphorbia Scolopen- | curates, &c., who feel a ve y great interest in bee-keeping 
economical. aand grandidens, both very stately and distinct ; | as asoc land commercial question. Most oft ose letters 
Noticing that | the arrangements of hardy plants are Crassula obliqua, a perfect miniature tree; Aloe | invite confidential and vig n dite, E and 
very ip Aeg with g big bushy specimens of the officinal a a variety of questions, difficulties, and perplexi. 
in the wall, where the chief houses are found | Aloes and Euphorb s which have i inj jured or — the a apiari an enter. 
against its pida side; but these E shall ap Rim aE JM maining báo here were emptied of t writers. I pr : er to answer their inquiries 
and aulis ound vpn inmates, and filled with miscellaneous eh your colum Th urgent questions in 
n tl er Che herw seit: n times s lowering stuff for summer, with a large batch of} the letters of my correspondents, refer to the hives 
the gard bject to fl + toe er to get seed from, a good | I employ, and which I briefly described in my letter, 
of Cap o ermine. sem e latifolia,| “The first I entioned is the Scotch or Ayrshire 
finding it a Yee A» i the pa^ of the Irises | and vp euet Sarda. Wm. so xagonal Hive. It is e of thoroughly season 
vatitabia waterflags; but during (To o be co. ontin ed) | deal in the form of a hexagon, about 8 inches in height, 
Baxter, Sen., he manag = : heap nearly 2 feet of soil] pg The Dasyli 723, was 84 not | *nd 16 inc r. on e top is a series of 
over the surfac (o utting an end = erratic | 18 foot ; t and Mr. Baxter's s botanical library | Parallel slits extending from front to Back, which Io 
irrigation, We T 4 ie c hie? charm of this little garden n x or shut b eri „of correspondin deal slides, On 
on the banks of A hormei is produced by large plants of | receiving a swarm in April or y, I introduce the 
the several s of greenhouse Araucaria and other slides and €— e up the to E wi On 
things of s Mimetiieal habit being placed about singly. , as in fine weather I am s nd in three or 
t P puts init sunk in - turf * LI ng, the n the | The MX venen he eso M "d fou nire bel om box c full, E qe on th 
variegated American A: S eu a noble men, with ng very in another hexagonal box in all respects the same in sí: 
leaves 6 feet = ng, and evidently well primed for shoot- IAE emer a Ep ear, uM and shape, and draw slides and thereby 
ing into flower, which flowering will n t compensate | Wells, have lately appeared in the introduce pis es to the vacant upper chambe 
the — for the > loss of so fine a k pinks Sedi ri eT Lok rare now-a-days to v n in the Times, | As each s a window, I am thus able to ascertain 
austr ralis nfl tili d Dasyliri her e finds everything, any intus on this | progress. When this upper box is Ned with honey, 
g 5 M have ten spe ee I never destroy y f i& another precisely the sa 
Heaths and Rhododend my bees. I look on the system of the talpat rawi slides on the top of the second bo 
e level, Pss n, "ies 
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for re accommodation of ud medium. e small- | 
Among t 
bei 
sited, prse d ut for 
eneral green 
1 drained, | match as barbarous did. unprofitable. I leave each 
mily on an average than 25 Ib. of t for 
ir winter stores, and the surplus on take away. 
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owing plan sta of "Mr. Volte new does fitroduo | 
nd P; 
nive 
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swarm, which I can generally prevent 
her 
rom the walls of Naz: arth? Along in front of the 
pic a range of oor the low walls and corners | 
ntage of er 
and „the remaining stock be t ay deficien! 
inter, I feed in the course of 
the early spr ing with bacley auger - This and other 
o his Fido as 
rm 
hexa agons, Vene the rk to be 
of the shape ^ er may very easily make 
these boxes in the long inte éd 
* The 
bich they wor 
were taken advantage o comfortably shelter | they are very susc eptible p gratitude, dtd have lon ond kind of hive Ia llded. ad: is aom N 
nd d such things as the Caper—which is mories. 
elevated a little to keep its neck dry wa “A hive is M like a church. When, in May, it The greatest disadvantage is its expense, 
Bamb Ragamanski, Vibur macer alum ; | increases rita oh PER PEN temperature does, 30s. But it is so weli made that it m Je er 
Indigofera decora, which gets killed to the ground |rises inside, you either i increase their accommodat, long. I have 
during a very severe winter, but comes up again and | area or in height, or you will have a secession. Shot ald and it is still as good as as bou ght. "listo 
forms a very pretty flowering plant for low walls;|a secession take place, bees set an example at ae is ae with three se elt Pl odi cee till aly 
rundinarias, Deutzia crena pl, Clematis | might copy. The new church never falls out w h zine slides. About the end of May, in a good yea 
azurea grandiflora. I need scarcely say that the com- one. Side by side they work in perfect pte I Ten out the slides after placing ove Rash a good 
Li of en of ith shrubs, believing, nm re plenty of food for both. The only | sized aor pa edendi, ar had i in each el 
9 dotting about of fine specimens, ce of |i hief maker is the wasp; whether he be | 7or 8 he reason Neighbour aii 
ady 241 3 hut Th 1! + ? 
th sma re boat, T full-le ength view of Magdalen a Y f and pecie and after a à fight th e bees, who in | super straw hive or cover does But if my — 
Bri and through one of its arches of the original correspondents | will get. a piece » thik Scotch. pil 
, b» him 
this matter are rigid non- y vieles eject, maim, or 
and 
wel 
he deserves it. 
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ds endid view of the tower of Magdalen, made this is modelled on the rciun ipn s may see the | will find the bees use it as readily ; as a wood or ia 
ueen bee, by m f m ge windows going her | hive, and there will be no m 
ing t o the “south side of the walls, the Grass | | rounds, and giving Sota s with her Royal ladies, who | of the bees’ breath insi 3 
gion appetite each species being grown Me itself i in n1 never turn don edes m d Majesty. The exceptional “The third sort of hive is Petitt's, of Snargate, 
a little circle cut in the turf, which is p occasion i when it be ecame Dover. Iti is worked on the ge dom; "y of its 
ay of avoi nd the Gordian knot whi hapl ate i bl ind i t gem. Two boxes are plac one- 
Curator has to unravel who permits a Gs rasses to sugar, t, of which er drank to excess and got drunk. | floor h a subterranean communication et ; 
embrace eac wa Hereabouts, on tho outer er of | As long as me sti gin s lasted bs fie v became a | them; on stocking the box on the right a zine slide is 
the garden l, was a very Jar rge ax fie erce de emo Queen e con- | introduced whi huts off the communication. As 
ded as the box is full the slide is withdrawn and the 
and had Boh: for 25 years on the wall. P Qn th forie | pana nly = among bees is their passionate liking | communication open. The bees take possession of 
bet was here devoted chiefly to hardy medici cinal | for fru ong ale. But the teetotaller would the other box n the je eft and fill kA wit! e — honey. 
plants—the Asafotida plant was pu with, and also | | fairly reply at TY A never care about either, unless | When my h munication 
Aru em conspicua, Which is likely to ove a fine it is pressed u n them and remove the lett hand box pem ot Ned. You will 
orna Grass in favoured localities. Xanthosoma $ ^w My f y principle of action proceeds on the 
violacea, a noble d, i we shall mss in Pel drones. These are a sort * idus Monks, Wie, notion that the ttom box of th Shire or Scotch 
proper character in the stov uari s | like Brother Ignatius, prefer enjoyment to hard work. | hive, the st ox of Neighbour’s, and the right-hand. 
ou growing and in flower wi , fat, and making much noise, and | box of Petitt/s, are each the sacred property of my bees, 
Caladium ; but I suspect Petasites v is, on the r eh | eating of stores to which they do not contribute. | which I feel it larceny to lessen or disturb, and that 
banks of a stream, hos always present a more “tropical | About this tme the Queen and her active subjects | the surplus is the tithe or portion e . 
ap) ” than anything we can do with, the exotic | A awaken tne truth of ge text, ‘If any will | The us blunder of country bee-keepers is the 
si open air in thìs country. few thrivin e s and t taking honey from the former—hone , mixed with 
he 
side of the west wall; but the garden is not | 
ble to the e. and there is nothing of | 
work, neither S bod h he drones are 
d garotted, But you wins to hear about the 
“In one square box there are 40 Ib. of honey, and, a 
|aeepeadinr super MN fling up, there is M Ad 
e Scotch or 
bágtistog at the succulent 
ouse, which is one of the four built against the | 
&c., at the north end of the 
ogra 
the Aloe, , and succulent way . 
* coming in again,” d Eta iy one doubts this let him 
look into Y^ ejes e new nursery ; a3 Highgate Hill, 
ere he also be surprised at t 
^ oui ro viia: Quos và eks 
each 
enough to last the producers. till “April, 1865. 
bei salan, hives, which I jam 
any, the t. 
found to answer he of 
ost full, and in one 
e br 
with at 
dies-in- “Waitin ng, a ibd i in an 
Piede, in “the bees have filled the additional supe or 
re | laterals, is abundance for all her subjects during 
ax 
“Tn some of the letters be have been good enough. 
to send me, the expense of these hives is woe 
fatal | objection as far as t the e cottager is conc ed. Let 
the w 
8 lb. "additional. 1 ti 
i 5 bel peces almost full, ai 
Ps per i hive a Me beant iful | 
tra 
ago, weighing 
“This season I shall have "early 200 lb. weight of 
surplus honey, and yet leave in 
ivi 
he first iere sang, met with was a 
“Place the swarm in a c n sixpenny or shilling 
straw hi Pu hen you pneri either by its weight 
or the busy working of the bees, that it is full 
board about a em square; cut in the cen 
ia 
ii 
3 or 
what is c| ee er, a smaller stra 
table-knife ES go to the hive sbon 
at noon, when the bees are 
wak Sers cut out the top of t the straw hive, making : 
round a aperture of 4 or 5 inches in diameter, an 
board with th lesser straw 
to pay for pasture ; $ tay little labour i 
tbat labour der rbd care o of them; and for 
y st ae oe from Natal 
then arera nikak” a l 
plc to a group of | 
and their ! 
Mane 
k | glasses, or y 
cruel, bu ! between the board and the lower edge of 
ks 
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