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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Ateust 27, 1864, 
plant trees of this —— at the same distance apart as | 
those whose habit 
] to be. posed to o a heat of 300° to be available by be 
ree “Tee. of ore — agen — 2 lbs. of pure vof 
nute o 
The Victoria Regia, jc., at Kew.— —I paid a visit to 
the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew last week, and saw, 
course, much to please and interest me, but I 
water, and boiled 
food, 
should not only study the quality of Mie rts, but - particata? delighted with the impor in which [ 
the habit of his trees in regar r grow h, "P aa l Mp er HE n both houses the 
so as to give each it oper positi ee s sting are ew discoveries. I advise any one| Victoria is in luxuriant ealth and flowering freely ; it 
for the difficulty as regards distance is easily got dog by po^ the sting out as soon and as | is rather a curious coin Haei that both plants came 
ver by planting the upright and spreading growers ease: as Te ravne no part of it | behind, and nie flower o - x e I g t count the 
alternately, and essening Lari istance ween | then let the wound alone. All the pon the plant in he smaller house, bnt jt 
hem, us, t hic may be which I have tried (a oe their name is legion) q s ny as the surface of the tan can 
calcula D radiate 12 irritate and increase the swelling, which otherwise On the shelves at the ends of the 
and the oth peg 8 yar, ‘then € takin rei mean radius | would soon disappe house I found a collection of Pitcher-plants, some of 
of the two, MAS will | “‘Ifany one hne a a | swarm consisting only of 5000 ar them seedlings, in the most r m 5 health, and pro. 
6000 ] 
e 10 iria and planting oo sor ‘rs 
alternately, the spaces “wil sie ell ny d. "Thu 
f 60 f t from ie "ie 
tree, and the same tanos should ied the rows. 
It is immnterial whether 
cunx fashion or opposite e 
vals, I am inc ined to recommend their being | 
quin 
w ride inter 
bees, let 
good swarm will weigh 4 lb, and I have k 
weigh 81b. Now, 5000 bees are o computed to go toa 
nd, and thi not too many, for iend of mine 
unt 
| spring, — the 
as the inter rvening spaces are cultivated they be be 
wor rked with more facility in the e| 
have recommended 
to be preferred on the score of utility. 
BEES, EN AND e — No. III. 
ued from p. 773.) 
the =e 
is | swarm. 
say if 15, ees 
allowin 
to 
ng ‘for the weight of the Mein carried off b 
“Brood in supers is not always drone brood, nor is 
the heat of drones essary for: the maturation of 
brood. If it were, they would not be absent in spring, 
when the xm coldest, m great quantity of 
brood hat aed, nor wo ald t be destroyed in 
E : 
g- There is, o 
for thii 
4 
the Vi Gaet has more wondrous 
s pla anted ou upon the 
fa that 
tu wre of male bees in tint and th 
letters of “ A Bee-m mid ins hs y ris atrii nial 
iode mU have called forth A esdbury. ie Mount excursions, as their loss a “that time wou entail 
ford, Exeter, the reply of which we here subjoin the | destruction on the entire community either does the 
principal passage ueen exercise ‘queenly preioguive and dignity’ 
** As an English bee-keeper of many years’ experience, | selecting her husband. She laun sto into the air 
I ha n grieved at perusing the letters on this una tte nde d, and there mates, som with a drone 
subject which have recently appeared, and which t vitet front her own. 
nk a 
jarians, 
e with each c 
bin 
nt * Bee her bee 
very mean strict utilitarians, ind "o pally devoid of sympathy. 
h 
never ees. They ar 
ose wh 10 canno t work shall not eat? is a law a 
iality alike to 
n 
gat "a, iiem ae. spies from strong 
diocl. ‘ey. the mettle of their a 
shou ald a ne or more bet ray | signs eak 
"m 
unless indeed LN latter, as sometimes "happens join 
beauty. s told that it w 
20th of May, "having then six x Jeaves upon it, the e largest 
of which was 11 3 It grew rapidly, 
and it ro been from time hey pir to remove 
she a score of its ] pes w possesses 14 full - 
grown ones, X perfectly eatis. "E came into flower 
upon July 30, produced a second blossom on Aug. 1, a 
third upon the 4th inst., an nd E has since continued lo 
throw up its delicate and lovel ely t regular 
intervals, This regal Water Lily is unded by a 
circle of yes scarcely less Jovely than itself, Of 
the: » Ny blue Australi 
a gigantea, the large 
bl ; th 
m 
specie es, is remarka e crimson N. ru 
8 
flowers ka nearly all over; 
quite a JD for 
ics. ted with 
Colocasia distillatoria C, as I believe it is now called, 
a C oa ia ed in the tank. . There are 
peci tes the vari 
ned erus pe 
was informed “at 
os 
ES 
boney above and its brood 
them in pure 
be safely asserted that any dioi of mat 
dir 
ment, - 
the confedera 
stores. W virtues bees | 
Fear’ while pleading | 
gu to the of mong my — 
favourites, I must bea nequit them of the c 
ri 
| or T redire e quan 
m et A 
honey ina ‘nadi * would e 
tity in a * super," 
mea hs cde Por is am very desirous of 
or nown tal and 
ery Heinf pen and usefu 
Purposes One of the mos! 
hI 
friends that these kitet no! op ahve ey an adequat 
e|idea of the amount nowledgo of th cen 
Vot o 
of drunkenness, or a ‘p 
strong ale.” N the 
-$ 
rame hives second t ever 
SE 
cultivation. T may be 
facility by the viviparous pa ade w 
of kn 
p ssed by British ao ers. y have we 
ity 
it n 
meddle with, unless their natural r 
Pcooaradivin 8 be overcome py thei r liberal ndmixtare 
f 
with either jid or sugar in some form ; 
as we e as ‘the necessary skill 
ourselves of the eenn they afford; but we are no 
x4 ipe rod 
in in length. gem o bfc is very r dissi to that be 
uld m 
1 Nha 
y of 
as if BA water were used to dilute it. 
ven now ransacking the 
plant, and it wo ake a fine contras 
some of “the brightly — Caladiums, hie. it 
habit and growth. 
"9 i jei search ir 
cdd while 
+ 
for ifr eggs absolutely under the rts control, 
who stimulate or repress 
now | genesis in the hon 
r 
Ese 
and verified t ents and investiga- 
tions oF Von Siebold, whieh, establish beyond I 
the truth of Dzierzon’s T a reat discovery of parthen 
y bee. 
leaves are ovate, sagittate, with splashes of a JH 
crimson colour, shaded off, l 
on the lower side; this colour shows th 
ertain extent upon the upper Mire 
full of interesting plants, as i indeed the whole De 
E in the bees per ag of every wr the 
severi cd Ce era Agony; sng. all this, 
most 
youngest and 
fertile q rice es Pdr didi and that even at 
atime when their loss on 
of all liquids as a radiator mee absorber, and adds that, 
anscends all others 
entails extinction 
community. 
ci (Ayrshire) hives are 
in 
Mes ruth than you A 
ent who ta about the queen’s ‘givin B. 
' and says that ‘if you interfira w E the of mention. It is a apo form of the P apaw te 
wateher bees will sound the alarm, and a thousand Hom VA Ene e qais i arica Papaya E This is a male plant, and isin ge 
stings like swords will be unsheathed? I am in the n Belgian. Azalean — t you * Notices to a sea durs fet i x sa com (ied t iti to 
constant [ge during the season of handlin ark “about ‘the Belgian Arles other pests eh hiis ud ee s females, 
> nd I ca assure him that Poer of ‘the: kind exhibited at Brassel ir in the sp pring. Les t you be hoped | that s of thes e may prove to be fe p 
ever takes lix . "The note of dis des degree 
n passes totally unheeded ud. er subject he de PE 1864; tl the Sinis garden, is in the hig E it has been 
gha few stray workers may alight on the bare|is a coe der p ana s on of a former r yea r, I think on Sahe Sete dpi: skill the resu st cui 
band that holds her prisoner and even Jick her as she | 1863. Hos should not, I think, omit Gui quta Il. | obtained. Eve s some improvemen tant soc 
is held between th m ngers, the sight = her captivity | and Madame de Canna rk 4 Hamalo; $ exhibited in the garden indeed, gi have been rege “tod the 
ffect in | moving them ei ithe ^t to anger or resent- | same colleetion— both v ry fine. flow i ents ever since I firs ; 
ment. Wh they generally | my notes as equal wi p place, now mis y go. C. W. C. ris 
fall into confusion for a. ine and Tu to seek her, | nd su super: th thers quot a although, if I| Effects Ebene ¢ he (eie bs iin 
but even this is not invariable. I h moreover, tabe ekte c t th as the| I write to acquaint you of a fact which = p Jin 
another fact to comm waite whieh “wil B scu chief attraction. Wm. », Hull. [Size Tui the much. I have a si Pear tree : M c my 
e y of your read t | principal mendation 4 - ease of all these |my stable-yard; about the middle of my de 
form is not unfrequently perpet: A * lgian varieties, except that t Madame i der|pigs got loose from the sty, an f his eee 
' in one from the height of popularity to the | Cruyssen, in which, n addition, t there ‘orm. | had ringed or barked the trunk o The leave 
depths of a, e sove "ay — Professor Tyn ndall's- closin she ure | a space varying from 18 inches to 2 pre e 
herself þinioned and unable to move a limb, among a|for the season at the Royal Institution E] a , turned black and were shed, and I con "- 
ense mass of her unnatural pei n; ape tere ihe subject must necessarily e of interest to ners. | tree was dead; but this year "it has nd 
remains, without, the paoi of escape, until death, | Some hide made by him: for the xl edes of | vigorous than ever, having been one bg than I bare 
TOU nM misery. | deciding whether any di p "oe — Jis rue producing a larg. ger and finer gaia Bo . : 
i and their TS as — t 
through them, showed that bing I sent specimens of the fruit to Dr. Hooker 
here. 
ancis . Boott, 
ed dee — i mire a with, a 
appeared Pus ord i 
secre! 
upon 
e shape or other is most useful to | 
us, and as rofessor 
E omnes to follow up his 
+} 
weight for | weight, its vapour. ransce » x 
Orchi ids, believing it to E Ms 
iim best deae D we all know, are the mené ing conductors, 106, bulb E odi ‘Ave years a 
or | Professor Tyndall in Breen with pject, |i ery dry state, but under fr bulb, "e in the 
cannot x to throw new ~ eee some of Nature's | gar doner r gave it it produced a fr 
crar 
six or seven feet i in height, 
th d fresh bulb thre 
um de deren f with fth some 30 or 
nee 
hall liv strong 
to condense and simplify Featert may be in them 
the matter. J. Thomson, Wortley. | 
e last 
wed by two strong  psendo-bulbe, “rich a 
ea eiut pe have each two strong bloomi ng spikes, 
