[Avavsr 13, 1864, 
772 THE GARDENERS' — M ts AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
entered, some Ferns working up to the arborescent si with a : bear: coe ee t day dt e ^ ty which is yey ee 
ave tagged with sil ill steadily enter remain u 
a such as Alsop - capensis and A, ee. 
Cibotium Schiedei, Ram fine Dicksonia, Thrina 
parviflora was about 2 feet ‘high and as m uch across—a 
specimen tam from Cuba by Pro Mw. Daubeny in 
1838, and arf. 'Those who biis but small 
houses, yet diste in them the grace of the Palms, 
without the uncomfortable prospect ‘of parting with a 
fine specimen, or having it give free roof ie cain 
some fine morning, ana sad certainly em loy 
Thrinax parviflora. Now . Baxter is in a eral 
co 
ægagropi 
a dense round ball 2 inches in diameter, with a 
d 
; | sum of 150. sath s the m 
pre-eminent in this respect among the Universities 
of Europe;" and on his death bequeathe py to 
provide a a for the Professor of Botany, on con- 
dition that the University exem dnce! the ahud al 
of the apre 
firs 
reg 
Ww: 
secon Heri "was succeeded m Sandys and | 
Dr. W. 
Trow. Sherard, who was a muni- | waiting, the bees will return to the hedge, and you 
ficent patron of the garden. He vices ted plants in | will have all to bein new. As soon as they are com 
Natolia and Greece met with, and beoe "md s fortably housed, carry the hive to the shed under 
accompan € England, gave 5007. tow which it is to img and do not look at it or touch i£ 
enlarging de. rvatory; presented the ga en for three days. You need not be afraid of stings unless 
with a library of "bo tanical books, and an herbarium is maddie V ith the queen. If you interfere with her. 
“ which rendered Oxford (in the eyes of Linnæus) | the watcher bees will thread the nes pot. thou 
iene , like swords, will be 
fy at a prudent and fearless bee- 
‘© A very important inqui nie 
letters, is, on removing the super, 
pos 
nsheathed 
they are so absorbed with ^m ent dat they do not 
rep eated i 
icta of 
t otherwise, 
eral 
gia] yr 
and that Dr. Dillenius eta pen eloben the raw, how are the bees to be expelled, that the hone oney 
professor—terms which were accepted by Convocatio: ne may thus be secured? All the plans of tapping, 
Here tl reat cryptogamic botanist completed his rig: and ante are ad. Toba acco smoke, an d 
“ Historia Muscorum,” all the subjects v won tal hat hii 
drawn and etc hed by bis own hand. Lin ited tl tipatl but th d 
of Dillenius, and dt | djat itor’ ket eit} d 
stan pet hid the | 
surprised him i in company with his pat 
er 
PE reely to the ground ; with | 
y fine; the Old Ma n Cactus, | 
; Aloe 
do-ferox, a fine bush of a fine old thing; Arum 
viviparum ; a great plant of the Paraguay Tea, and some 
viens 
Bon wey ter medicinal plants, oe and | 
ery 1a 
English, threw Dillenius off his gu: 
my who said c 
erard, “This is the vm man le 
wh 
aliating by slightly alluding to it 
opportunity of reta 
of the 
while he was demonstrating i in the garden some 
best 
way of removing a su 
carry it about yards a 
up the glass on one side from 
course fly hom 
“Your 
with bees, of xv in the — not fal of M, isto 
100 
you mg see "e and the sus will lot a to 
n hour, and 
discover 1 their separation from their queen, and under 
full of honey, 
ee 
They v 
fa — ar with, 
e Ordeal tree 
agazi 
filled with d aieo land drawn backwards and 
ig tha His ont path by the gardener,” or its 
For nearly "the both of its iut par previous ed 
1 the g for the art laid out i 
parallel m year "Me 
altered it to its present beat A vou etm The whole 
orked x eid and four in 
zt eeping | as could be 
esired; each man ibd a certain portion of the garden 
allotted to him, and to this portion he attends in 
particular. 
es ed w spo 
? “which in severe weather is | He trave 
IW. H. Baxter aft 
n every | 
The 
He soon led the Oxford professor to forr 
a 
could never r nile a 
ed D 
ipelago, 
high | the 
.|case is where — may be, 
p 
when connected with the parent cre e. 
what 
a sic of young brood— 
alwa, ays 
roo This t hay refuse to desert. 
They d 
lad as a der — Bs their T s they insist o 
and their The only course in such 
very property they would have died ci Banting fo 
exceptions 
on his death in 1795 made over -Y 
books, br im and collections. He it was, as is well 
nown, who bequeathed a freehold — for "the | 
retu rn to the € aon 
ur pose, first, of publishing his magnificen 
Grea” i in ae folio vols. with 100 plates in each, and 
en € a pro fessor rship | of rural | ca 
ity. 3 
ebbe a sap 
not to do on the 
ene are not "ikeir to e vi and the bees will th 
ort, I ol 
the bee ceases to ‘accumulate in "ken, you must take 
win ndward side of your Po 
pose, and recei 
n August, when 
i iversi 
Bo otany for the — being. 
e piece ot garden gates 
till the sation of the irde 
The Herbarium a 2 EM Mens is a very 
and i than 
great riches of the garden in n this wa: y was Fic can y 
by the present curator, an ex tal ground, of 
-— the establishment was ed till Dr. Dau 
rchased a couple of pes of ground near the Iffley 
Road, of ie gegen Mii for this purpose, and subse- 
the Universi us n trust for the 
time bei 
that he may have the meaus of carrying on any 
. | window, 
ing 4 
hive ve, who ud E: you ‘of all. 
* [f in this 
e | robbers, ied pt super into your ge 
pose one side = the super to the 
e bees. Ver, AM ree 
“I have been ai eke d who and — 
who are those lazy abbots I r 
The 
bee, of elegant proportion 
you would “at once "pronounce 
onth you find it difficult to escape the - 
ites they will rush out, and robber bes 
sae side having egress for th 
— will fy to the Felep 
iti a few m 
an Abe no 
red to 
ueen is Res — ibo: length of the common 
and shape. On seeing 
e her a duchess or a queen, - 
,near à F 
window | 
soon gret 
nd by opening 
cotta; 
js the ho queen 
ler 
enquiries conne ected wit th scientific agric culture wl 
the late Mr. Fielding, who bequeathed to it 
1L 
ficent herbarium, secon few in existence. It alone| Criticism of the dear old place is quite out of the 
contained 80,000 specimens collected by Wallich, | question. My chief feeling on leaving it was one of 
Bentham, Schomburgk, Cuming, Douglas, Nuttall, eget to Lord H. Danvers, and all the good men 
Hartweg, and scores of oth ists, and included o have ve their labour and fortunes for its 
Prescott’s fine m ilie. wish to ide a pod ancement: my chief wish that it, above all gardens, 
week here, I had on e for a look a the Moss | should id be remov = | to “ commodious 
e, ly ti 
the herbarium of Dillen nids, the 
he drew the plates in his great work ; into some 
drawers containing the larger Proteads in fine pres 
tion; and at some of the specimens in Dr. Sibthorp's 
On one of the 
re gs o mals of 
ant, vers for Dr, Sibthorp br his ‘reveling 
c mpanion and cnah dm the der elebrated Fer 
Bauer. The garden one of the M D; 
copies ever irent oft | from "the platos mire for the 
Emperor from the celebrated MS, of Dio 
fi preserved in p tis Taner rary 
at eaa whieh was ted to it by Dr. Sibthorp. 
“The MS. was proc ' Busbequius, the s 
at ntinople, about 1560, and is said to 
expense of Anici 
opes from which the plates in his famous work |t 
e tak ac 
Der 3 surpass t ost Uto: tions, 
untry towns have t their Crystal Palaces, o ^ fte re 
British workmen smoke the calumet ia — = 
heir own Vines; but that it might rem aT ages 
come a boire | for the useful, strange, "and bent 
Mind of the Dt bs these letters prove to exist | a 
apiarian c I sel 
letters vale i Sii id as I have 
E 
492." py "contains 410 figures 
plants to which Dr. Sibi dp de att ached - Greek 
names, and in spite of their ruden fu al 
ut) * 
of | best w: 
way of hiv’ one swarm 
at once state that taa old. sal "üivelérito h a Kon 
ect such pue from the | wise 
z^ Nous and these I 
| conseq! 
on is— Wot ia he | 
rn, and that arenes mit 
sanitary students, that she rises originally from Be aT 
"p the differents - 
the 
enya stë 
secessi on—in a iarian language, & 
of beating a kettle, striking | the tongs with the e pokon 
d rd, 
ye s her 
wedding bs +4 “spend the honeymoon a! 
and flow 
un — wil s ascend the the s aff T the 
will seced 
inhabitants of the world of vegetation., Wm. Robinson. t it is asked— -a are me 80 
rones in i. e if only one wife? This is a very. 
problem. But one f it seems to very 
BEES, a alah AND My Se II. When the queen’s countless eggs come to be Sur 
(Continued from p. 749.) temperature of the hive must be raised to 
“Tax letters that aich me, Paid to‘ The 90° Fahrenheit, The fat, round, and lazy drones a 
Bee-master, are legion. I can now form some idea of | really the fuel. They accordingly giv out great he > 
the weight 'of the load that must press on your shoul- | This year I had two stock hives during breeding = 
ders every day; but I confess I had no notion of the | 95° Fahrenheit. We thus learn that fat old gentlent - 
at Mr. Banting's system is not 8m - 
from their vy o in enabling us ‘to i identify 
modern plants those described in p for: bier They do not affect the bees, In Pe d the old poche pot in apiarian ph y, n ee 
on the Materi Medica, especially as said to|queen abdicates and heads the sw and a young | feeble,frequiring when hived to be fed, an 
agree with the figures contained in a still pm MS. | queen mounts the throne in the live. The pend e. when room is give» 
of the same author existing in the library at Naples.” | queen, followed [4 5000 or 6000 bees, either ez proprio | drawing-room is added to the dining-room, and Do the 
There is also a botanical museum, — but useful I, motu, , Selec! bush,| to the nursery, I am asked what 1 
“illustrative of the structure, functions, and uses & laurel hed j lire together in harmony? My answer 
vegetables.” Here amongst the mon d of the eng forming wae leap very careful observation, reveals a fate rai 
botanist’ rs and curat ford gard pe y early MIL set ded, | more Hi ni poy R t 
racted nei ipid porn our MU hive or bee-box, which must t a hive with alone lives 
Dr. Moriso: =| eee clean, as bees hate dirt and slovenliness, turn | related space, t hey fight it out one " 
, and daring his time the the hive oF box bottom up wards, } hold it i in your ur left band So settled is this law, Ld Lo oe cate 
superviso t timid - AY of t queens, is to 
became pobre and plished the third part | the tong jn h your right h and, Hannay or pir This 38 
get Aeg — ts," which work was | the swarm Mr our empty hive. Place the hi ive qiu Ay Uie trait in a favourite study; 
elder Bobart there is a | downward on id on the py close by, | suppose er law erro it. A 
to up the by inserting a wed stone about| “It a commercial Guest it w 
published in | 2 inches in size, and — X A of te hive with a|honey is not now of tho isse imports that gat P^ 
in a long vest | cloth or a ivo hende M to k sun heat, If! before the sugar-cane w iras iniit and ges 
