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v 4 well, and silkworms have ee? Garden Mem randa. k on their sides 
any of the fruit-trees bate been attacked "ne coccus, The Hope aes Leeming ip “Bedale. —At t which Da never ekba j in young o1 Daai Though Qu eens 
which has APAR great ravages bie sir ch ne t propagating-hou quit the hive, and are less iaia than the 
grow well, and the British system 0 BOLAT ent in an i ingenious presi si The top o os the fu of the | workers, yet they seem to be more hardy. J bave known 
to repay the labour expended on i F I ve having been removed, it oN. tepliced y a small | them to survive the winter, while all the rest perished ; 
Sweet-potato produce good and ja 
the ow-root and Sweet-potato pro uce g n boiler, from which two iron pipes of 14 inch in the bore | but I never observed one come to feed with famished 
profitable crops. The Sugar-cane, Chili Pepper dy ceed in the usual way, - e propagating-house, | bees. The bre yg that the Queen leads off the swarm 
Bamboo, theta cot at apr teceh inlets tees is 540 eee ag may be fe d the propagating- ny, the has been obje ecte prs cause she is a or never the 
birds on the islan php ar | one at the top near the front corner, the other ne to alight where the bees mus- 
of th will allow themselves to be closely | bottom of the back corner; the box occupies a pit having fi f Strictly s spe: rarer “this is tas but a swarm will 
approached. The fan-tail, in the woods, will perch on a | a path before and behind; it is 3 inches in depth inside not quit aa an without a Queen ; or if they do, the: 
sick held in the hand The islands are bb exposed | and is formed of 13 inch deal, havi di p the j wilr tu th iss h It ight, 
= ea aving a division u re mi as soon as e tss her. mi ’ 
to hig h siad; ; ; the hedges, which are a H thot sed chiefly | centre for the circulation e atii ibe t top vit id that an officer did not lead 
: | about 3 inches in depth with sand, there , because he might not mares to be the first to 
ani: and the ifd Alon of thé Hawthorn we bo te or wood that height all round, and i iin thi the pate dre start, - There i isn Ages enc od between the sex of Queen» 
service. ive of bees, w e author took ou plunged, e temperature of p by bees orkers, no» of t that prod t P 
have prospered, but they have suffered from the wind. | zine pipes, which issue from f the b I to Mr. G oldi r my knowledge respect- 
ia corner near or he flow iron pipe enters. The whole | ing th rae oA some enan roe appear trifling, but if 
is found to wer ¥ y well, especially in aut thers had as clearly as that ha oar most 
l Hi Re solefon; By T. R. J and spring, Bsa hea oe required; it in all gained | like we should tav Egea heard of s a thing as 
ee ri Wan Voorst z — he eat. A paren: seen hase at outer that’ "the sex of bees was changed by « royal —- ‘3 
er; the glass, after "beta laced oua bodaiat f | More iven Phil e the insects are sin the lar 
a WE ain kidt F ra Mi t Work foe od b tg the pte in the usual way, i is no i i tod | atit r is siren while t lete th 
_ general subject the natura 1 P QF AMA T a with white lead of the ‘consistence of rather “thick | aint; | of the insects. The space is given by merel widening 
| this stud t b paint; pa y 
proves that a taste fi “i Mg ye Seah this ace said to answer admirably ; | the cells, the i insects ood beg the length by their com- 
position We cam har ly gonoeire ae ‘the in any the white is does not give way And pest of as putty | plete cocoons, = i n eof pig ria To 
, , ~ | often does.—P, S, hornets do whe 
_ tion, and who ought not to have the time, to study —————— Dark Honey.—In No. 50 ee year’s Chronicle, 
“fai ons of. a aihio of a eae and Miscellaneous. Mr. Saul mentions the cir enemies of honey-combs 
netions of the anim ngdom. e we rega 
c 
rding ae itd =a Effects produced on Plants by Isolated Solar Rays having been found in the side wall of Nateby a 
ae t itted t that “ t Lit ath h d the com 
T “Bighes “iclighs i _developin ng the wondrous laws of | “@™smétted through Coloured Glasses. — Professor | He Says,'that “ about 2 feet of the honey an 
z joke Zantedeschi, of the Royal Academy of Venice, has pub- | in the c centre, was blac n other parts it was excel- 
organic life in its erfect forms, or as bearing more | fished a memoir on this subject. The followin ing are the lent ;? ;” and observes that, wie is stated by some writers 
immediate] upon ae great questions of physiology, on | results of his observations :—' Vegetation becomes lan t there are bees black honey, but from 
| Which the happiness and even existence of man himself | oid under. the influence of coloured light, a as has been | this it would: appear that it wa s age that turned it 
F depends, it must find sympathy in every mind. The already stated by Senebier and Carradori. ‘But the black.” Mr. S. must mean that writers sp bees 
sive use of the works of Buffon and Goldsmith order observed in the germination of seeds by Senebi dark honey, which they frequently do from 
ves the existence of a native interest in the natural | has not been confirmed by the experiments I have made. | what is called honey-dews ; the sooty like substance 
ory of animals; but these, independent of their ; : 
w b In Senebier’s experiments the ord from violet to | which accompanies that saccharine fluid, renders honey 
| giving a quite one-sided view of ane animal kingdom, f fold Ni! a: Bad Gri os 
. | red; in my observations it has been, for the seeds of Iberis | dark. That produced, also, from some sorts of flowers, 
pre meagre and out of date, so that they can no longer | amara, from red to yellow and violet—for those of Echi- | varies both in colour and flavour, but in general 
be said, however interesting they may be, to be even | nocactus ottonis, from violet to red and yellow. purest honey is obtained in the fore part of the season; 
poe introductions zoology. S y | ke manner, for the growth of Oxalis multiflora, I have | before honey-dews appear. The combs being dark in 
; meda papi -ateid t years, and a su found it to proceed in the order of red, yellow, and | the centre was but a usual occurrence—the like is found 
incomplete view could be giv n of the animal kingdo violet. Tulip-bulbs pushed most promptly under the | less or more in the heart of all hives. e has to = 
Without its aid. Within a short period we have had | Orange glass, and next under blue and green, The state- | with it, but not all; the centre combs soon get dark fro 
Several excellent works published on comparative ana- | ments of Senebier, with regard to elongation, have not | the heat and traffic of the bee i 
tomy and zoology, by Grant, Owen, and Rymer Jones. | been fully confirmed. His peseimbata agree well with | from the store of pollen to supply the brood. But 
a have been technical, and more adapted for popular | mine in the vot elie that i s to say, ace ee to both, TERT of remark, that old dark combs ma ay onthe. i 
teachers than for popular readers. Professor Rymer | , e honey? as light er ones, provided it me been col- 
» however, is not less favoura ly known as alia... noticed. That is easily known 
‘| popular teacher than asam f science, and we d | but they differ atie ar for jaoga aà to Seecbier" 8 by letting some of the honey drop out without squeez: 
to find t e has been induced to publish his Lec- experiments, the diminution a the order of yellow, | ing the cells, L qosation if b of re- 
E> in a form that is suitable to pular reader. violet, an Ye ; whilst in mine, in the case of Sila finin x piensa er mont have eeneg Riz _ That from 
y s volume, it appears, is one of a series s, and contains | multiflora, this order was fin Ana oe in th f ms er to di ffer colour 
; E coca cs urses of lectures delivered by Echinocactus, the gradation of diminished elongation | fi niet ~ 
or before the o eva 
Britain. inning with the sponges, the a al ore Or i [vas pee Ms to the order of violet, gelom, and red. | or r Plam. And the voy Shy 3 "th ea ‘are on sit 
on through the polypes, polygastric animaleules, jelly- NEIT AANA k ti the h 
a wh T the tribes of the nematonema, w zae | whilst my o observations z as follow È r “ae ep s To keep Tomtits pees Bore. s.—The ravages which are 
th e etnnalcules and the star-fishes mencing | blue glass, the stem n Oxalis multiflora Ar tr made upon bees by tomtits may be easily prevented by 
iapoda ya the volume terminates wi ’ -| length of 16 ins. siaa under the yellow Blass 1310% pasting some hair —— round the outside of the hive. 
ore 2. We suppose, from the ground gone over, that tee atid «alia ee go ae this Orange glass 13,88, ins.; or, in| Ib e done this for several years with success. d 
; whole work will be mplete in four volumes. thar wor ds, the grow atha ià length un nder the ae hi chien per slid 
} volume contains 105 wood-cut illustrations, worked | > ae oe Pega ce keeps 
pith the text, and if the sheryl volumes are as tion of 42, 35, 34. The plant u fdr- e yel gg i | out al ree nds o' insects.—Archus s, St. John’s ye 
introducti, se rare present, it will for ne of our best exhibited no appearance of flowering; that fl er the tt iA of parenga ng.—Mr. D: d, of Doonbraë 
] Ons to the natural his Arsi a nal imals. ra nge gav e some indications of flowers, but they were Cottage, i yrshire, apaan 108 the of are from 
i D impe whi lst the one under the influ “ome it was val 
e Candolle, Biomi. Regni Vegetabits. sea I siete gee IE EOE SER, * per 1b., makin ng a pro i me of ore ‘Lis itte ant 
q art IX. Dulau. e r i foliage is attributed by Senebier to | And Mr T. Nutt, of Spal ing, Lincolnshire, obtai 
f Sa; announce the artivel 4 in: Eps don of the new ong ence Š Te violet rays ; and aco saii ng to |110 lbs, of pure honey fi 
he this important wo ork, It contains Gentia- | him they possess, in this respect, an influ uch su- | during the same season, which, at the above price, wid 
— Coon Polemo are, Convolvulaceæ, and | ae: to tha t of the red and yellow, mer pa oe a equal | be a profit T ae from sm hive, aks rhaps somebody 
Mita aportant natural o 8. It is sufficient to | É that of white e This co tresponds sex actly | with the e | acquainte ed with their sy of management, or with 
that tovall. the- merits oe ite predecessors, it adds | sults of my ex ents on the Progen saan profitable, ‘vill selene the partic ales in 
-coma erits of its o but not as acer "bres on the Oxalis apes? With | an early Number.—£. B., St a ord. ‘ 
~ regard to the corrobo rative er—the e pow r of giving mans WERS.— G —Nuit’s Bee- i are perhaps the 
r : NEW PLANTS. strength to vegetation st for eee amateur. We werd ae end deale ers. W. 
Coad STRIGULOSA, Strigulose Cu phea. (Half- | bier to the violet ray Sarimin with the red’ and and New Corresp.—Nei i mo va singe 
; rdy: Greenhouse Shrub.) Ireen Dodecandria yellow, is not confirmed by the experiments of Poggioli, box hive is on the storityfog principi e, ag i ot u 
henin aan Se specimen which first made us ac- | nor by those which I have made on the Im s bal- little from other hives on that plan the ventilator 
is i A kë l 
he blossoms areas Kins = >a ons Rk oe pesii regetati But t with gt ast ge nn ray of acoclerating |t | which is said “to prevent ; the bees from swarming, and 
3 deficient in interest ; however; in a theses Fr: me ray, as compared with i effects of the red ray, | ¢fectuall asi Walk 
Ee were Surprised to find | specimens in the o en air of a iS cords ma the salts which my | "pper sto But you u may be assured that e ch 
De cea eii It n in its Sey on the naepereea balsamina, Ones Mave their o own way ii that re tion, howe in thee Oe SUF 
enue z it isy ne rh ere aen the showy ı when of this | viride, and Myrtus moschatus(?). T) chae K The hive in question as a | 
we’ trengthening action m dedly exhibited ll adapted for the amateur, 
grows wi he loat of the. Andes near Ibague, = is en the stre n Oxalis malti iflora wer a . sky- blue glass. but rg you 2 a a“ hte woes return fo 4 e gi ach os 
y recently tee introduced to this country throu my experiments, when t alis at the price of it silkbe a drawbac : 
entinental Nurseries. The warmth of its opted | the solar rays thr roug h red, pb gs r yellow glasses, the | CALENDAR, OF DF OSERATION®: 
recludes us from entertaining a hope that it will a vertical direction, as did likewise 
rove quite hardy in England... It will probably | those of Tenet prira: under orange and yellow —HOTH Ouse anita raroRike 
— the same protection in son 8 = eea lasses; but the of both declined sten the light will soon be requisite to have bottom-heat 
low ai When pla out i on a | when the latter was apilaa through glasses differ- rasta produce: 
W well-drained border should be ‘plead: whee re | ently coloured.” — Revue Horticole, p. 336. pins 
wt may be kept near the surface, and th soil — 
nA be too rich, lest the plant be induced to grow | pene. 
the bash y. The beauty of the species is dependent on! Tur E precise age of the QuEEN-B “es “ y cer- 
ortwo | ness of the plant, for where there is only one — but she has bens iis i n to oa 2 east four 
~ ong weak shoots th flowers are too far removed ars, and is p¢rhaps the longs lived insect we have 
a oe other to produce ony striking effect. Pruning it has occurred to me t p a o! ueen-bees are larger 
"practi 8rowing shoots mu, a be. ea rly a nd ifs » th eit growth is at v varian ce with 
E posed t. It is necessary, O, O, that th | th 
3 to all the | light +} Ae | Se aaa A dition?” May there bt, however, 
Dee acquire Prone prick bosdim t bet een-bee an 
ead loots an ach BA ‘wo iong, tiken off ‘Sone a int he airam imde which increases in size with age? But 
f 
t t, if I may so call it, belongs to a class that 
ely fail to striks ina “es dear ris aor gs, a penis insec oo Se aa State?” BO 
