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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[JUNE 26, 1858, 
flower ir in the ou week of = e, and aed now ale 
into the side box, first iry had an outer entrance 
oard (as Mr. Nutt “advised i in | 
made 
n the 
il is very tenacious I inve mted this Implement to 
> | ma 
ar into the 
I believe » the 
yellow Rose, the Yellow Provence, = 
plant will die. 
of sta 
n bees in th 
the dividing tin down | 
when I opened 
tre box, aris the new outer | 
gether, having | w 
found a 
Qu ene 
new difficult ty; the “ws eon up 
on t ve are roa ‘me side box, 
ald again I could 
fter > opening the holes, as the 
time in clearing the hom a soil from their spades, and 
answered my most sanguine ir yee When 
ans ra as me 
Kir m 
sh 
were fasten it. I had the 
taag ng away = retoes altogether 
sog zine was placed over the holes at the topo 
; a new piece of per- 
of ji 
fi-en 
| ps o over the hole in each side box. 
Sioa 
Esq., Elton, near woe ing. am. 
had a a circ cle of holes i — on about an inch in diameter, 
ing t the age mre pie 
The Storm of the 16th Shit. visited this locality with 
fearful effect, Goat g down huge pieces of ice for the 
space of 10 m “wn to the complete destruction of 
he holes 
ae p bi a the the rmometer could. be sleet 0 on 
m 
ventilators altered |s 
y 
The Anës 
had the 
and n aking 
fei ` the “Shoots would induce the aphis to 
aaa 
ughly y Cleansed 
bi 
the 
the shoot 
ro ae 
ing o of leaves. George Westland- 
5 OF 
Thee i 
taking off the top; the holes in the 
every glass st re expose 
In my own eatabiishment I have neither gree 
erate i 
the opposition to any new tne and the failure 
| zine were larger than in the tube, mån not being 2 in the 
box the bees did no t fill t them map; 
enh 
frame, or ge sarc ha —— a complete crash, and un 
itely n ured. am. peri Jo! ohn Har- 
à 
I Was s looking forward to havea mei quan’ sity of ae 
Aon neral 
when the boxes — painting. The 
stell I conclude meg a and ‘ot all flew 
away per were lost. re home a 
and Ii agined the painting might have oes de 
caches; in all cases it 
and ide 
decidedly t 
££ a A 
, new im 
ri have # thi 
has prov 
tp 
of the ‘ble powder on Cherries, a 
es, Plimg 
cd perfectly ie 
the best ac aed e> ever 
| a egeat 
brite to > dams 
I had put of te ving ane 
| boxes es painted or one year, knowing Hom 
soem wooden b 
There is another 
or hives 
r 
not st 
. | was e in pu iP have a a | shed coed to keep the boxes 
aT) 
orgs 
ed oe o 
I fo 
found y Se EA named trees. 
on m 
flag i et home. 
I wish to ask = og ho honest plan of re, 
do you think it as bad as borrowing plants and fi when moved under a north w wall gi 
of neighbours, | to help to gain spr James Cuthil Y ever fl ep noe again I should earthly prefer 
hives; “Neighbour’s Improved Cottage Beehive” 
maret “Beauty A England tt — Some | seems to possess all the ewe es of Nu tee 
fine specimens of a Str enor with this name | system, e named. One 
attached to it were el sent us by Mr. Frewin, of | kept in this neighbourhood, whi anit ner tells ioe 
Bridge Road, Ba fruit was fed and hand- | answers well, and I have thought of procuring one my- 
some, generally of a conical form, but occasionally | self. C. Z. P. Can any of your eee readers 
varying its shape a as vi omg a cock’s comb. explain the following circumstance ? In noticed yester- 
redg 
cover and stiffered to 
the syringe; if s 
till the eveni 
sold 
y | oy that the bees of a swarm about thre 
were in consi iderable commotion, cand on farther ex- 
ye ont the 
a cca emi: 
h 
of the ahte: il go far Frowin should submit a 
sent as 
size and a 
notice 
"Pruit it Committee of the Horticultural 
iety on iu 
arctan have i listened to =. bo Berrie 2 — — 
bee can gbt > oni ld s 
ts — March Numbers of ast year a (IB Y Ate rat find 
eight 
My Toe apiarian in Somersetshire | for 
numbers of them 
| or helpless on the around the hive. ` They al 
A neighbour observ 
a his bees a few days since. 
e 
Rhododendron argen erring to one of 
of this 
lov ey the f Mr. Buller, i nt Cost 
that year, accompanied by a slight descrip 
ht flowers which formed the ny the pont ier 
med anot ther h pri» f bloom, but being in 
oe Ca 7 thous advisable Pr destro the far 
ce of “ge Airp E fe n” at 
y in 
have a emery ho spini any "a vements in 
the menigencat “of this interestin np which to 
watch is a ure, barring its remuneration | in the 
aray of Heck Now the only rule 
secon iph is Powder.—On inquiring of one of 
| gardeners the other day how he liked this powder, “he 
answered, = “It killed be at first, 
Tasked if 
e room possible, take up t the parating 
ers, let ‘then go up into the bell- -glass oe g top 
artes his colony as an Soaks ae Polish hiv: 
that 
anid co 
he had any other fault to find | 
lotches Agger ves, and I canno prada | 
rather surprised me, as 
another age le reported" complete success. I 
he direction paper and thal a read ka 
“Im 
Bor, cd cotieexuently but one colony. Let them 
both side compartments, and i ‘in the autumn ch 
combs in a tee tn ae = ‘and sealed, then let nate 
Hoar, then shake the tree or „fihp each Shoot y with the 
mater the “powder arrives place it 
a 
s, and 7 eild see but Bor i 
genus were esa Re, ides 
qs 
r of some 
which ng ® y 
dru 
possess es 
others, he show 
The ladies 
T 
e to narcotics which poison 
ia make "ab t the 0 ee 
culty in 
ey Rose trees, &c., et the destructivo parasiti 
é 
y the use of “ Sigma ’3? pow 
wder. 
— Sorieiteg, 
OTANTC, REGENT’ 
Park: June 
Re — 
Mieri he its “pr vot oh he een on W i 
last. 
and fres 
bottles.” I asked if this was done. “ “No. Ki “Although | 
asi weeks it was still r 
ival. 2d. “ After dus 
a 
t aootë: leave the Spoed on the insects 
“No, 
. The teed go maxim = recollect is that | 
but one Queen bee 
858. shaken off it gi 
sai directions are 
he left the gee on the leaves for 
four eget pon then syringed t Bitte bly Ps 
ee find if 
ne be one of this class 
exposed to the air it us its Ser eae ritbe 
t| ei 
spots, and if the plants be wyridgel Dette 
sce fi 
8 | gteatest ease ; "ny men Mave ro 
eti fòr this lak 
nan T fan Cha no 9 
when 
, but 
E progress 
ll-glass; a few days since ected | trees i 
had been 
when I age the winter store 
CCeSeary 
the first time. It appears 
we been touched 
| that Mr. Powell was ree of the snecess of the 
ty. | powder, or or he would not hav 
a 
14 af hi 
eB 
ape 
I can 
T find that now 
nr £ aan le, aa Epea in the rie Be A 
” aphis powder ome chire, Då I find 
en in this hot and ary we weather it is ee ar 
Gaver okraa om 
ig rene to me leaf. na | 
be carried out with the |- 
Brown | the 
kind that has ever 
year, 
In the Nurserymen’ 
house Plants, ais. 
aman 
fires adhe Wri 
towers ve Fics brightest yellow; 
his | dark-fl z Ans 
bloom 
and 
si Sha 
The exhibition itself thongh R pas 
which charac 
p 
in blossom nearly. the whole 
in fim 8 t may wea of which hav 
dete 
erise aes ot the 
efore been staged at this 
ng 42 Stove and 
go and Cutbush 
shige” 
ey 
ran on eo 
d Greentouse Plants, we 
fornia y Ae art May ami Green ga ong these were 
sr i 
