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segments purple or brown spotted, while the apes 
pheanthum has brown unspotted segments. The 
climate of Paraguay, like that of Mexico, is very hot 
When od is com- 
pleted they should be removed to a cooler place and 
syringed once a day only, increasing the moisture 
when signs of activity show themselves. 
at colabium ee: t. 22. — An old favourite, 
need comment, 
( A hybrid raised by Mr. 
Norman Cookson beteen c. Lawrenceanum and C. 
Argus, and described in our columns April 17, 1886, 
488. 
P 
Odontoglossum blandum, t. 24.— A species described 
n our columns, 1870, p, 1342, 
house, After flowering the plants should only have 
water sufficient to prevent the bulbs shrivelling. 
THE “ ORCHID ALBUM.” —The plants figured in 
the last number of this publication are :— 
lia purpurata Russelliana, t. 969.—A very distinct 
variety, not recognisable a out of flower. The 
chief distinctions lie in the lip, the lobes of which 
h rosy-purple; 
270.—The са of ite genus, 
271. "pes rare species, with 
oblong lanceolate white segments, and а convolute 
lip with an orange throat ael with deeper 
orange lines, and with the wenig eri 
nnamon-brown faintly tipped with 
yellow; the ii is large, — a crimson-purple blotch 
on either side of the the crests or keels at the 
base are nearly obsolet te and deep yellow. The 
warm end of the Cattleya-house suits this species 
best, but care must be taken to shade it from the 
mid-day su 
OYAL GARDENS, KEW.—The second Bulletin, 
dated February, 1887, has just reached us. It con- 
tains notes on the new Boxwood, Buxus MacOwani, 
and Mauritian Industries. We shall take another 
Opportunity of alluding to its contents, 
HYACINTH EXHIBITION.—At the Exeter Nur- 
series, Exeter, Messrs, Lucomer, Ріхсв & Co. will 
hold their tenth annual show of these "s on the 
llth inst. Messrs. Ілсомве, Prince & Co. have 
= a circular inviting competition on favourable 
terms, Full parirala are published in the seed 
ае of the firm 
ounds occup by the 
American Exhibition at Earl's ington 
in nearly 23 acres ith such ample accommo- 
tion the d ies been able i set aside 
elabo pu fia ind ea 
rately laid out in preset walks, and the flora 
will inelude all such American specimens as will 
stand the Eng Here will be "the music 
stand, where two military bands will alternate in 
rts of popular and classical music, pavilions for 
= ibits, refreshments, &c., roller coasters, 
à model of the ee American switch-back 
railway in Pennsylva: 
THE APIARY. 
THE BRITISH INVERTIBLE BAR-FRAME 
HIVE. 
S is а thorou ughly good hive, invented and 
It has pren 
tereti specially to suit our climate, and ca 
be used by bee-keepers of all creeds. It co байын 
of four boxes, floor-board, honey Pu rd, and queen- 
excluder. To begin with the boxes. They are all of 
are laced in 
toget wooden screws, 
The other б. 
е of these contains 
seven w ide frames, and sich frame holds three 
FIG, 66.—BAR-FRAME HIVE, 
4} x 4} sections, 50 in the two boxes there would 
These are also held with 
re thesetwo supers might 
contain the other kind of frame, and extracted honey 
i i ney. The floo i 
narrowed by sliding the hive back, and widened by 
sliding it forward. One great convenience of this 
hive is that every box is d and in- 
vertible. A g s hive would to 
get PEEN Eke ready. by patting thick foundations in 
the frames of the brood boxes, and thin foundation 
in the sections. Le all this Ы dois long before you 
want to use the hive, so that nothing dur scamped. 
n has arri 
Suppose now the happy and you 
have a prime swarm: put his swarm into one of 
the brood boxes, and place it on its floo and 
cover up as with ticking and carpet, and put 
the roof on. After a few days invert this 
place the eau on top. few days the top 
box may be inverted, and if honey is coming in ve 
fast, the queen duse may on the top 
and one of the rs be on that. When 
these sections are pt towards completion, 
another super may be placed under the other, and 
the super which is nearly completed “ч м the same 
time be inverted, and will very soon be completed, 
If you have two swarms come off within a не days 
of each other, and these swarms are not arge, 
one could be put in a brood € as explained i bey 
and when the swarm com ut it in another 
brood box and stand it Pto to the other till dusk. 
e an immense population 
at once, and the bees быы hne settle the 
matter of the reigning sovereign, by casting one ou © 
By the kindness of Messrs. Neighbour І am. able 
At some future time E = n call attention to it 
ar explain how I sh the bees out of t 
supers of a hive like те W. сыну, Pewsey. 
PLANTS AND THEIR CULTURE. 
INDOOR ROCKERIES, 
HESE constructions in conservatories, me will 
now БИ" attention, the inert soil should re- 
moved, and replaced with fresh, sweet не 
and any unsatisfactory specimens of Palms, Ferns, 
Begonias, &c. should be replaced with more 
desirable ones, which ld have fresh soil 
he old being eed rked out 
wor ou 
astefully nes 
Caladiums, Phyllotænium Lindeni and other Aroids 
in t pedium: 
signis, Euphoria jacquinise iæflora, and simi 
Selaginellas, Cyrtodeira fulgida, “ion 
descantias, Ficus minima, Panicums, and some other 
dwarf rock plants soon ou 
become shabby; their propagation is, however, 
simple, and their cuttings will root readily in heat 
" attended to at the present time, and will quickly 
rm pretty plants, old plants may consequently be 
red with little difficulty. 
Crivias. 
These with us are objects of great beauty at the 
being associated with 
increase the number of me; such plants may, how- 
ever, have the soil removed from their roots and 
their crowns меан carefully, so that their roots are 
broken as ssible, and dct Young 
rors plants кле - shifted into larger pots 
as the mmences, apart all newly 
oed viria should be йен a rather close light 
situation and an intermediate temperature. І. 
miniatum and its varieties succeed well in fibry loam 
mixed with a moderate quantity of sand. 
BOUYARDIAS. 
Early ne is an ati point in the 
cultivation of treated as previously 
recommended ae now be wall rooted, and require 
potting singly in small pots without more delay, and 
be ubsequentl у, as may be found necessary 
to make them bushy. Plants one year old that were 
cut back after flowering, and have broken may now 
be shaken out and re n fibry 1 , leaf-soil, 
and sand; the plants treated should have the 
assistance of slight artificial heat until they become 
established in their new pots, when ied must be 
gradually hardened, previous to being planted out in 
cool pits with the young plants. iia will 
be resorted to if aphis puts in an appearance. 
EPACRISES. 
As these go out of flower their c should be 
cut back, and the plants placed in а moderately 
close temperature unti they commence to grow e 
а. irri d should be done, using pots a size 
the compost employed being good fibry peat, 
pera ‘with a liberal quantity of sharp sand. The 
process of potting should be performed very firmly, 
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