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micHower 100 plants o of i it. Free growth nn, , good [ we should, as a rule, break up the swarms of tbe| 1 E acul 
е tough skin—in brief, “constitution” is the. current year in preference to the old stocks, retaining | ord ouam Ma 135.4 Bedian boreais 
Ford. Charles — бло е akas e Мыр Өр к км opiy - equired for filling any vacancy in | Asplenium Trcomaner ^ and 
and most splen otting is е apiry or increasing the number of hires By|and Athyrium Filixfemi ЕЛЫ cd 
Жы Gus Lefebvre. W. F. айд» Tarrant adopting this plan a a larger quantity of saleable А and Cystopteris imei What reium рта 
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usually obtained, and the stocks, hav € | moninionn, кү 
тисш, will have young and pro ыо саз eens, wher d sected wit Bie laid out pinea and walks, and the 
p бату requently very 9 а queens are at t ead of the pesi i of the Castle to Glasgow, which is distant 
+ swarms, ese have the bad habit - dying off or | only seven miles, it is not to be wondered at that the 
тота article on the supply o R BEES, which becoming ИР» and the fine swarms dwindle away | citizens of that important town avail themselves of 
on Sept. 16, page 2 tree me - inspect and perish, to the great surprise of the owner, who|the privi vile ege. of ,promenading and inspecting the 
Жен М. understand why i d 
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Оп Saturd; 
һауе Жө as АЫ о егу eda ge amount | early in Tm in "y districts Which = nok. "кени M үү уры {аке Dus for the benefit it more 
which the bees have been able to pe des during the | in heather, The brood should be carefully cut out and | especially of the “sons'of toi 
months of Joly and August; the importanoe of timely | placed in a small ге or bellglass, over some other|seives of any other namg аар, &n advantage which is 
inspection ; an d the necessity of supplying the requisite stock. The e manigat being AMA the bees will| more and more it becomes known. 
quantity of artificial food with as little delay as|?5cend and hatch out the brood, These young bees | Examples Ж. СЯ kind, although chiefly of aed 
psi will tend emos to strengthen the stock the following | interest, са be DM ly circula! as thei 
On my return home after a short absence in Tanden, spring. The bees may be expelled from the hives by | influence "fo r e both rectly and aer is 
in consequence of yon urr remarks Iins pected the ганы ог күш! v m be united to other|of incalculable value, and y to draw closer the 
tion of my apairy, I find many of the = 8 ould never think of|bonds of «ану between ће poor and 
n. that thora LA fui vlt тойа “ баг т surviving destroying Then, iw ЧР СК that st purpoe s eque were| Ава garden ag АМЫР d Бите om has 
the winter wi A feed e thes — €—À subse- long figured л. m e fore in Scotland; and 
are some e dur " pe eeks It ad & mly |d vieta: Mr. Turnbull's name, who will m эй: if he is s 
believed wi ч пору provisioned, vrlihont being likely —Ó— un i rvice of the family, 
to require any help from known and рен all the leadin ners in 
гым much of this unfortunate state of affairs Gar мад Memoranda. ü dans 
must be attributed to the very long period of fine and L CasrLE.—Readers of the history of 
dry weather we have had, the bees having been induced | Scotland must be Fiet tm with this name, which has | garden g e results дА resent, г чает 
to break іп upon the greater park of what they had | played so important а part in ancient feudal times. | professional zeal and successful culture. The flower 
stored for winter consumption, There has been since n moe е туа —- Ag battlemented. round | garden is formal in outline, dde and bo unded by 
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end of June 
flowers, yet the bees have continued their appa rent u е І into numerous figuret 
activity, and in most hives breeding has been rather | MAy De seen compaot fragmentary masses us and | with gravel walks, presenting, during spring anc 
extensively carried on. It would sporis as ifa ао ау ти Др ATT as "derit as if they - gea | summer, a combination of floral NAT and handsome 
autumn may occasionally be anything but a blessing to | the of s volcanic eruption—a capital | foliage, differing in some respects from most of th! 
the samplo tof tho workmanship of the eleventh centu ury.|formal flower gardens which base. cama under 3 
am fear that the mortality among bees during | А Blance ud de ШОН shows that there has been a | observation. 5. Tum bull has never al d bin 
coming winter and spring will be extremely large. Le eaa с about 60 y ds | partisan of th е beddi g yaen, s ао ts beauties 
lied м ауе чац hives in this neighbourhood died of in brea: dth, at at е «per of which is iw. » take to be | and E in somo ы ded him toa 
i e person near me Ма lost five swarms | the banqueting hall, 60 by 30 feet, wi p f tha “ searlet, We ilv, and the blue," 
md d cd wie Relieves toat v the rest of his Me elliptic windows overlooking the es Adjoining | al [.$ fha choicer herba ertha plants hes 
will perish from this is evidently the ZU for her y ists arbe hood *: disti: VM б, 
The Ъее-Кее E» this оошу, v who have sent their remnant of the font; -— DN in "ihe ve recess, is a | sideration,” "Yer wl have such a fine qma 
tolerable indication tha ps altar must at one time | herbaceous plants in а border reserved for their ЖАШ, 
т dn ha menlis have not been satisfactory. This have stood there. Th he авал part of the building | vation as Mr. Urt but UM is not so desperately bigoted 
a great measure, to the wet and cold | 10! p e 
Whieh prevailed in this district during the still stands. It certainly i is a very imposing structure, | effective и ыу" ha bort mixed border 
of August. Clyd of the writer lan] 
Tam much interested in the Apiarian department | ing the more humble and less stately rnin of Blantyre | but observe, it is not one of аб в of * half 
а ки and hope that others will help you | Priory on the opposite side. Both ruins aite. б M ME ^ be i. that are more enitn. for names, 
in making ib attractive, clad and quite overtopped with Ivy, the roots of which | s and varieties, than " effect of any kind, 
À few weeks ago I forwarded to your Api orlan have penetrated into the chinks of rock rura “9088, keeping the artistic “entirely fr rom view. No. no! it 
Editor a small pen swarm, which came off fro te|is thoroughl ДУ ive. А display of geudy ill- 
oe of my best Italian stocks. 1 heard from him of | a5 thick as one's arm. The surro eder o v ood, arranged colo could not be tolerated in 
its safe Ба but I am anxious to know whether the | Water, and lawn all contribute to arci an effect any M man ila ыы, en. Well, this border rung 
queen proves to be a breeder of pure Ligurians. which is quite as agreeable as it is impos pua fag эру 200 yards with the low wall 
every reason to hope that this would be the саве; ACC ien, to tradition, Bruce be stowed "this castle spoken is covered with Tropæolum of 
but as three of my young queens reared about the same | !DOn An urray, aho married hissister. It after- | sorts, a e а. grown, including Eclipse, 
lime have vdd qui to be шро, and breeders of | wards came "Into possession of Archi ser id Es Brilliant, Акони, Fireball, &c., but some 
nmistakeable bees, I т that the опе sent to | 200 third Earl of Douglas, who had ша seedlings sa ese sorts prove to о 
түн I аа qa dan nes category. I shall | daughter of Murray's The Ph d emi E эй d Tth prolific n Pa y bette er in form, T 
Epa to Doar that that i in ths supposition Lam mistaken, | Earls inherited the title, after w. rfeited | Dahlias of sorts, intermixed with a variety of 
respects w ort alto; а ‚Рок und somo other er things; 
T by the Crichtons, John Ramsay, and the Hepburns, and the dull crimson Valerian, which 
in town I took the opportunity of calling at ls of Bothwell After the 1 of Bothwell | most ve plant; then dose white Rockets, yellow 
Vt Neighbour, whe where I inquired for the supers | WaS forfeited a the 16th century, it passed through | Calceolarias, Lobelia, Alyssum in patches, but 
-com tioned by you as having been à : 
КК the Royal ultr] Show at Plymouth. зева а family, th e 
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am bis tu d bed, pep н" a wow Bios tague, who;died shortly after inheriting the estate;|from May by this arrangement ig unabating. 
m 9-41. our and pureness of co and it is now possessed by her daughter, the Countess | border such as this, instead of being made up of “ 
pi for ri seen Te |pis ham. * | of Home, who married the present 11th Earl in 1832, | half a dozen varieties of plants, may contain 
а y whom she has a numerous iseue. The family, the novelties of any particular plant or plants that 
Minute H —1 am dreadfully pestered diy although not sojourning much at Bothwell, evinces a | one possesses, an: while presenting an admirable con- 
aginda ot di minare” тей ie about tio eighth of an | very lively interest in the preservation of the castle, | tour, keeps the eye fixed from one end to the other, 
m and in maintai ds|which is all thi со o rn 
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щі it шау be imagined how these e, pests до | поб castellated, on the contrary it is a plain square | The Dahlia clumps are elliptic in outline, and are 
necessar: That all i ied i because к 
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xd i tour, except the undu g—the softest of 
ve carried out with respec! hing ap де receding from the river; but there аге |а] of the Verbenas, and the outer edge a sheet of 
ОЁ meat and some other eatables, in the pantry ; | one or Leg pretty tandsonpes ith the trough of the | scarlet Miss Trotter. Old Mrs. Wheeler was а mos 
hey would be attacked by thousands upon Clyde a foreground, bo nded by rich wooded | effective centre patch, surrounded by Alba floribunda. 
uds of these ants, T have seen a sponge cake so | slop: гч the distance. In the тИ Vara one was Ruby Queen, Blanche- 
m, and perforated through and through, Ec are some capital samples of timber of|fleur, and y Dodds in double lines ; the old 
ite unusable. cient growth distributed over the park. All purple. lai Maur: which bas a nice soft tone of 
unwelcome visitors were first ni on sorts have been judiciously thinned out, colour; next Fev rerfew, then Cale arias, Firefly 
20 years ago; since which we have never and Oak and Larch predominate to а much largor Verbena, f the beds was a 
om them. They are but little seen in|extent than is usually the case, a circums large o something af 4 centred 
б in ^ in| which gives a more interesting character to the with Zelinda Dahlia, й. t 
ve never been fortunate enough to see| woods than they otherwise would have, carpeted as | few, then dn. and next Purple King Verbena, the 
eir females or males, winged or otherwise. ey spi in the early soma v Anemona nemo: soft tone of urple enhancing the effect of the 
that th i with th Perilla, and iue = edged with Variegated Alyssum 
Lobelia mixed. The Lobelia had been in fine 
individual plants 
ese m е imported | and in 
foreign country, ibly in the „м of | n' MM re val (nia э ver. ux ee the hi 
T like to Tow i Daffodi - Narcissus 
hey have been know Dan d tora | жон "ihe rarer hd pea а indigeno 
than that I have Buoeushr йегет besh | plants to be found here, are Neottia Nidus avis, Liste 
Can any on о апай ovata, | „very in 
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ive"— When bees are managed, like! interesting are the Ferns, which comprise rise such kinds | many Lo gardens are ebargeable wi j 
Swarming system, in ordinary e in тез | as Polypodium Dijoptack, Phegopteris, and vulgare, | and Pentstemons abound, aud are of first- нег quality, х 
