THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 
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OCTOBER 8, 1864.) 965 
Any little expense in feeding introduc 
for sowing Scarlet — or ye French 
oed 
bees and helps them wonderfully, and i is never a loss. | o decline, s is » possible, 
If you want to tempt the bees to feed in your own prtucing a single raria p 8., P riaren i seor these plants can now be so piv ear] 
garden, sow € ette, Salvia, and Sainfoin ; plant | Oct. 5. the case. The “Gate: and place 
plenty of Raspberry, Gooseberr: p Currant bushes. reed Strength of Deodar and Cedar of Lebanon. f publication of a any old ieiti shold be g 
They like Lime, Poplath, Apple blo ms, Thyme, oe —In our. Paper of Oetober Ast (P Bs), I observe Charlie Dórds, Down, Bromley, Kent. 
above all, Borage. on es never t ndi €— e an interesting in so | Concluding Notes on the F. of Ki Th 
Spola Bee early summer prove very dry, pla far as it shows how the timber of the two kinds of geographical distribution of the flora of a country 
your bee-shed two or "three soup plates half fall of trees named m may be assimilated, _ but I think it by no | indicates in some measure the character of its soil. 
ut in as many p i th is we wd ore From the plants that I = eed mentioned it will 
that of Kildare 
water, Hv care to 
The 
which w vi 
| sustained, through roo 
may ier be supposed to have bee 
flow of (reme and rigidity of fibre, 
n the test of strength. Besides all this, 
1 ho y ox not. 
It may ho injure the "s if judiciously Win ANA. 
"vA it i 
will hold, bees s require vpn for their that = meee of Lebanon, grow n this try, is | therefore be seen that j ly. 
tiny feet, oft as the most degenerate variety it: ‘Seotch Taking t the Liffey as a starting point, and following a 
from drowning. Fir, while “small branches orth-westerly dire ection, we dually a 
ing EP 1 ip f soil, with here and th ile 
economically. But if you can wy out a vite as an|like that which the t ipe a mbH e e in the seria On the many of the ms w 
AL and vx to combine interest and PReigh- Hi mal ayas. In testing t the strength ¢ of the Deodar and | most Ju uriantly, especially Anthrise! vulgaris, 
with p o be ve 1 Angelica sylvestris, eren gen sativa, aa: Pimpinella 
er, a r in Rege reet o elh I think the Deodar gets justice, notwith- | Sa axifraga. A little he northward we meet h 
seen any varieties of pres ot different br and E standing the statement of. “the writer >o “in | Gentiana Amarella, did stil farther on the pretty little 
of good workman: Ee The lateral me isthe most|the present sample we o an identity of con-| Euphorbia exigua. Westward fi i 
digas but leas ctive. I do not like the nadir | dition whic h can very rarely be secured. vee, soil, | perfoliata finds a suitable mV and er 
syste. Bees ee y ascend or eed thes same | exposure, climate, tment, innge, everything | west is a region of Cotton Grasses. Nothing more in 
Plata,” but mostly prefer ascent. ‘Exceisior’ is their - the same, down to the very roots." is surely a | this direction partienlarly attracts attention until we 
favourite aspiration. ery artificial mode of arriving at the conclusion to | find ourselves in the bog. ae from the right 
* [n answer to another i inquiry—do I app g | dep = eodar of its own roots, and place it on | bank of the Liffey in a south-easterly dir ection n, we 
stupifying fumes as of Urs oni in order to expel the | the stock its soft-wooded relative; thus the timber | traverse an undulating country 
bees from supers fu I say certainly n oduced by t eodar was nourished, and e e ete ve score ae the 
its ow 
n deprived of that | 
not necessary. The b 
ts bei eing detached from the 
Tittle distance, and will return immediately to their 
me thei 
ees will leave the super | 
importan mie scattered in 
Pied nid m 
home and their queen, The only case in which I have | I expect ont will agree with me in thinking, that locality. Of the plants more generally distributed 
recourse to it is when any portion of the comb through re Y p wh ich ascended from the root and was ela abo- througho out the count, y, the two elegan 
accidental admission of wet, mouldy. A few are common in 
the Cedar portion of the calities. uliginosa also 
rat 
prina hai the timber any lo S. gra and 
diet: In every quarry v1 pom pit Reseda Luteola 
gulum 
instrument sold for this purpose, during five minutes. | trunk, may have cete it a es oe f cem ne 
s soon as the humming noise ceases, lift the hive and ~ been prepared by the ordea es, thus | abounds. Hypericum emer ts ditch, 
cut out the mouldy portion of the comb, ce it, an ing, as stated in the a vi p nly a| H. calycinum more sparingly scattered ‘oods, 
| in 20 minutes the bees will again beat work. This is difference of about one-sixth in favour of the Deodar, | and H. Androsemum rare, an odd fuit: of which i is i anly 
X e only case in which I would employ either this or | I further think there is hardly room in thi t, to seldom seen on the rond.sides. Both of these last 
| tobacco e which answers e x point to the identity of age, for the stock must have | St. John's Worts are well worthy planting about 
| “Your apiary or bee-shed should be placed as near ben considerably older than the scion; and even | gentlemens’ demesnes ; calycinum in particular has very 
| your dwelling as possible, sheltered. Tom the been fi uae looks well near the sides 
and north-east winds, and at the test possible the opération n rafting, i is it not likely that a wx of shady walks, iiri mong ls, &c. 
distance from Mry. Fri but quietly | ence would ar extent from the medullary | an extremely beautiful Alpine plant growing on some 
and unobtrusively, visit them, watch them at work beris Wigs te biti “of va iini "ce Within ld walls in n demesne, viz. Erinus alpinus, than 
in y e-glasses, or by windows in your bee-boxes.|the last few years the Deodar has not been in such ich nothing could be better for covering ruins 
Let your children play beside them, "They are fond of|favour as formerly, and is not planted to the extent o a walls ; it Spreads itself rapidly. On the lofty and 
children, and u lently ean bed will it deserves; this has arisen from p rocks arton, Geranium lucidum and 
injure them. I can state this from very ample experi- | seasons, jern changes of the weather, and due | Pote crane are growiug, but not very plenti 
ence, At tl t Fungus, athe to oe A garrett jg fully. EN molle and G. pyrenaicum are common 
few persons are so biais to bees that rd ust noy irae "he arch. Still the | G. dissectum is €— scarce. Another graceful wall 
approach ue Plenty of soap a -— and fastidion dor gri Pee nber trees lately. ps A es ti ti ound cn old buil , Viz., Linaria 
l cleanliness are essential to'a e-maste er’s contin bd adapte ing as a dE crop in thin MTS The En A plants most generally 
— popularity with his a iari yo -| plantati. re it. in certain localities -sure «em di o t 
T -— TE - — T aal 1 c game, ré 
tiall, aiei better than any other of the c But as 
me Correspondence except the Silver Fir; d s h Ihave not cue grazi 
Land d in Norfolk.—On "Thursda; Sept. 29, a able to test its durability as a post or railway sep coun 
singular phenomenon eos v in a fiel he the farm | expect it is far greater than yes : of the Oak, or 
r. Hastings, n Norfolk, on the estate | other tree we have ott the same 
of the Earl of Tuidater ^ " Suddenly, end without ren this indes ectin, min "oberg p power, - | ducto fine crops G 
visible ies for nee Ape had driven over ben: a quality e a valuable tkan its stren A. in| Th nerally 
spot Md es before, a nA Pie gave way, and there | resisting eight, th e last of which I believe to be very | rec! o! 
appear: yr asm t in diameter, and of more | great, when the timber 3 is ped EN I J. G. |should say that the want il manure baffi 
than i7 - reat tee Mr. Hastings d bar said to have Underwood for Larch P. wink ipsi rer to effor t. 
had a escape; for if the ace had s HL S. M.” Ly say tht if the so grav tI 
it sight ‘well have done, benea' th ‘the d 
an excellent underwood when the Larches are ¢ rori lividus and iecore se 
If the soil i » herd oe for Larch, common and American | ( 
ded t 
surface, but as cro: to re Berberis Aquifolium, and Holly | it is 
spot, thinking ere visiting the scene of | may be uite: bur M irte — be established | erops 
an earthquake, the Tand eer this unusual pressure | before the T pde trodue fact, better Turnips than are growing in some parts of 
seems likely to Lo way in other Lert Cracks a are , Sta mdard P. and Nect ectarines. se appears that | Kildare uld be v cult to find. "T walked over the 
plainly seen fora radi ius of 5i g y s ha da a great deal d Curragh in the me 
d i t look for plants in fovet there. The: ‘sheep leave it too 
Bush Pe sn be Restate bare for that. Isa 
(October 5), tasted P. 
marked from Noblesse, and Royal Kensington, also 
Nectarines of is tie 8 repr n and Downton kinds, 
as fin ds avo! - but 
Bob so 
bor the nce has been rac As a nine 
; but the science at command in a country 
aaa no more than guess at the cause of the 
On th w looks as 
i have this day w no othing o oni it but the most closely 
the immense Lath as mone cropped i in with _the 
shee as (i P à reri had been at them 
e lower ex 
of cou a 
f ye xt in an orcharhone Wallflower coniu on one of the finest old round 
v en one year old pnt out into a caleareous | towers in the country, J. Douglas, Straffan, Kildare, 
soil, or such as Mr. Rivers calls full of MM ee MIS qoe 
cha lk, loam, ed but ite, ^ no sand, b hot on a Sw. 
on the Manet lux 
meh 
slope, and w riate, 
pe t making fine a Man 
S. Dillistone, 
r quite an acr 
ground. Per! is te be sought in the 
E dryness of the -— the like - w e 
Mr, Hasti om mber a, bess 
of half a 
up of Ms ens 
le cause ir: this Singular and 
? A. H., Oct. 4. 
growin j 
BRITISH 15.—We 
Season Sept. 
answer to venie Noble's will interest 
ASSOCIATION : 
tained a »attal us "gesundes E few. a 
the until last 
throwing v up its white Hai 
sin: ms, from 
M he cause of its peo and that on occasi: 
the same white variety. I have never seen the | associated w. 
on W. sinensis set a single fruit. G. L, Kew ut = ey evolved from the latter, 
a dormant condition, it was, he 
— Gardening. —I should be very | much obliged füny to te inferred that the 
or other connected 
tion enables 
way to fix prett accurately 
ed to force tbis pl ti 
P 
comm 
had risen to perature E 
th e cer OE a 
e river during July was sere 64° ; it ne to to 67i" on 
the 6th of August, and numerous white threads began 
manac one or two centuries old would have the widely mpl and ib seated cause. 
| kindness to look what date is given as the proper really be the case, ti oiri 
And 
