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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
515 
Bodoni “the moment, riks abe swans were to a 
sdvantages, and had 
rA mil } rgument necessary to pro 
pai . 
eel boat with some frien 
d of consciousness of the 
w 
1 was fishing one e day | 
y T 
boxes, whic 
great | to ap aioa Seny the dwelling to me multitude al ma 
tent defè: nceless, or at least deprived of of hei iehi | inhabitants— 
i 
s box was | bee 
Ranee aaau ma mrur a n am e eanna ane: re a 
Celis, the bees dwindled away during the sammeér; “and, 
in $39, I again replenished the boxes, and, in 1810, 
E/T wis ‘rewar rded with about 10 lbs, of honey and*a 
ve. | swarm! On the 28th April, 1841, I hived a sw itm A 
one iens ‘he side box es, and united th em to the other 
1 ah 
“ss of any season, by taking: nearly 25 Ibs. of on a 
i 
Ben 3 
Th h 4 
them pulled up a a whiting, which mene ie wE a 
ney ¥ g his only hook | and a A sg 
} P 
E] atire to rletgttien the box. _ The four separate pieces had 
the tory’ of one set ‘of th ilated | 
y but z a 
oh it. cess has attended “several 
in the very iine ah with oe: r hook in ts jaw, | well as to pee i the combs. Each ‘box had a hole at other hives constructed | on aes same sera} Whilst 
and thas oe rly sane ear che Anae antiy to | the top, ov 
proceed wí sport. The escape a and subse equent ventilation This hive (then sr oma Bi 
ó Py a table, or stand, having a large piece cut bitt of $ | Sect to the seasons. Byes comparing t ~~ dierent be- 
é h to find fault; t ink t entre, an a dr: eds with ane slider a itta ched t to 
e 1 I left ith ad meio d und it, by m s of which air ‘| } iiia 
ne has no pretensions to a fine ter, andis t the I ft d 1 l } asi } } in " 
"age mer an ambitious chet He has. l ld'b ined and cleaned ; for A apl is one | can by fi g th } } as te haan, 
seen ology. and entered into argaments which, 
fa o th y betray, only detract from the 
ity ‘of the work. 
New Plants. 
teRowa Kuntursnum. M. Kunth’s Pleroma. a 
ecific name was applied to” it by M Mr. 
sr but the present ha vin 
of +} 
apiary. 
iit ia is a + Brazilian pro- 
e posses ion of whieh w. shite 
Eee rag ws apts discovered it in aitention ms par king 
4 ie ‘a boggy character on the Org Maik, atan 
_ altitude of more than 30 
1842. In the garden of -R. G. Loraine, Esq.,.at Wa 
_ lington Lodge, 'avigorous specimen'flowered in one ‘of 
_ the “stoves: in ei 1844. It isa shrubby Statt, 
_ having r-sided _branches, “bearing “ample 
foliage ` forits'velvety 
softness. wers are disposed in large panicles ‘at 
the‘top of the shoots, and possess a richness of tint un- 
any of its congeners: wu r 
lant: Beet ‘vith 
ueed in” a 
"Bites o 
t 
seo i fare 
DAME Vicars eed xt ING aivi 
Reference to Plan.—Fia. 
H, 
hein Fk of the long drawer a 
I.—A BCD, The rhe et joined 
€ 
shown Aa Sage , raise r vaks to 89°, via in 
the adjoining combs, ” where the bees» had “no brod 
and hy = frieg the heat appears by’ t the ther- 
mom 1° than in the side box, although the 
Tend are aly 2} in inches varus eth 
res box ; and they sh 
f 10° between them for that short 
| sateen difference has been nearly 20°, The bad effeets 
| of this system of ventilation ‘are'very manifest ; fdr tlie 
bees, i tend: of’ ranging the fields to gather honey and 
PE pEr ; "batt es 
lating tubes. 
the queen bee v ‘ll deposit an hrane side boxes, 
and ‘dest: shay A the parity of a honey, whatever secre 
may have attended the 
er M 
yurit 
in hiv id Ww By tems, I know nöt 
e hod Kt py 
ofany methe 
of wax and honey ean be obtained ; becauce it depens 
control—such as the seasons being: more or less fayour- 
ahid' e 
that one mode of ong ich has beer stecess 
| fal’one year will not answer the next, although the sm 
‘tem may have pata exactly the same; but the odea 
et fortanate results of some of these new hives arid 
anes up honey, in hives of every construction, idée 
ETEA 
and E F on 
{ ands abundant), even from ‘the hollow trunk sfa tree'in 
9 9 
t 
middle of the table fitted with a am Ere to emg air from | cottager,” to the “old hat of -a field: seareérow,” 
below ‘drawer ‘shown ic bes r the L, The | perhaps, as a contributor to your per has given Pann 
entrance for thé bees in the insid | i “ B 
Fis. II.—The cover to go over the whole of the boxes; M pred how a A arm. of 
Bara for the ingress and egress 
make a sw: 
‘being the entrance with the ender = hes tin, With hdles | Boat be found acina enough to be 
i 
astmie a 
supporting, honey-extraeting, ventila‘ing, hoo 
mee Pas AMORE RED g- -l represents the reatie Ih ‘eomposed of | noe srap or hive: 7” ‘The following is the register of the. 
its four boxes, &e. wi goth ; fe a 
from the weather, With rat made| © ES Tu UE Toe 
-Bees as: a moveable eircle, and piereed with S eeo iè the T : £ =: TBE; ee it ee z 
d. B:—The plan you ‘suggest’ will “do, | in egress of the bees, which can’be-opened or) : S: i. $ S: aa TAN 5 
d you can cover the bees with w box without ‘shut ‘according to ¢ircumstances, Ventilation of the wee na Ss ike hi 
ing the comi embs. Great care m taken in hive, then, we — e enaga en kipee mej pust = sSparr > > zs 
=o if you “see dang sac perhaps ’the | Vicat in the’ managem : os — BFR: * RD ERR ELS cee 5i 
ae th T remain undisturbed vill S eptember ; wpe a — sar ‘pc or séveral y . ae T Be 
‘Stock, take honey, and unite them Pot weak ESNS airget results. The collatera Se aanus e wale | son dee \= 
little chan — ing jon os id, therëwas nore : in the shape puare TOTE T POSUNTIS OTOR Fyarpi T? 
te'of yotir swarm being'a “virgin one.” The | boxes, rare extensive vein at ‘the ies 05 éred mi nae tae 
worki saagi siap r bee-house may account for the bees with perforated tin perfora ted tin tubes ag A va | 3 
the inside oe cae ie fey td gra ee peony i each bo ‘ h Sah ae hia 
J, Li empty. W. 
ntaq E ees either left the eur ith | forate poy so that'when the three boxes a are re iced 3 ( a a8 
Wise e accident happened to her’; other-| side by side on the floor-beard, there is thoreug “we 
litter y would not have ‘réturned to the hive. The draught from the g p aii the hives to the tops and TEE rik 
; š ta was more likely to be the: n | sidés of the b ý insi are made of arden. 
‘ i r the weather ma a deal | ggz Z se E 
izi Quarter of 
the 
with of “pre 
a wad e a same igi mentioned 
he queen'at the- 5 e m trace v 
Sm centre box is one window on 
he wind, 
I~ 91 } 
of 
“i+ of the 
mg its exit; the bees “ta “doped : 
return to the hive Su upposi this 
d 
e brood-queens in the old stocks, 
brood elem eet repetition of ‘swarming ? ‘but 
mometer isat 75? 
850, one of 
into; Te 
o, 
according to Mr. Natt’s plan, who says, when om eet 
, the top tits’should be opened; when’at 
= side boxes A gas för the bees to swarm 
t 95° bót! ht es should be ope: 
doyim 
‘quay JO 
and 
the ty © of: the’ thermometers mirae a ny gui uide'will be 
| apparer she fi one v who will take. we — to exa- 
iding that -the sto; rig to 
= SEESE ni Be ere 
e 
ee 
cre, ana 
ter kept 
somons 
aiva vaasa 
i jdaoxe ‘urns oy) uppat 0} 
aes: YI oop Up “o 
has been betweey 80° 
vadis were filled va brood ; 
re building combs, be- 
