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CHRONICLE. (00 Ben то, 1875, 
of the immense loss we incur by our carelessness, 
or rather, per haps, want of thought. Save the 
Mark the chai result. It is cheaper, more econo- 
mical, and evinces far greater Lia o feed them 
with common rg sugar than even ње best white 
lump sugar, because the brown makes more wax, and 
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finer in quality. 
dex have found by experience that it is күрд if you ar 
make the most of your bees, to run all th Combe in in 
x» autumn (of course I am care hat. not to et this 
oney. 
Taking this view of bee management, condemned 
stocks are useful and should not be despised. In 
the month of September I regularly visit all our 
tage apiaries, and obtain the pro of all their 
condemned stocks. have one instance placed 
seven stocks in one h this afterwards m ro- 
ble and most valuable colony. When I first com- 
kin our condemned stocks $ 
made a laughing stock, by of our intelligent 
bee-masters, for simple reason th t 
for storing food for winter use. Mark— 
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destroy n > add it to тае other stock : it will pay 
you better to be without ii 
Until very re y recently the рау extractor has not been 
so kno gst English а sag ies (I го eed refer 
€ rticula repr our cott -keep I 
m glad, агаг to perce КЕ “that нате гуе pub- 
(— wi jet be understood. 5 eel- 
ingly on this point, for I kept bees until by losses, 
n I Jet quite disheartened. It did not need many 
s to convince me that ** it was impossible to 
Nine rich by bee-farming," but since the introduc- 
tion of this useful i ment I i : 
profitable. Now dg judicious and careful managem 
Las make large returns for the capital 
invested, and I T honesty b EC they might make 
fair income by bee-keepin 
Forestry. 
BEECH Poe „ы correspondent of 
Agricultural ing regardin pri 
the А. 
of Beech timber, sa 
“І may -— that we sold some clean-grown trees at 
in the middle of April at rs. ree. геро oot. 
stat | two miles 
from a railway station, and from twenty to twenty-five 
miles from the prisci E > 
From the same source we learn that in Soe 
the average > value of Bok “timber i is 84, per cul 
foot. Their со ndent says ;— 
otato een cr бзр pmi all that 
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anifestations in 
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rican affected 
s аде, bat | all the Р-н varieties 
indi- 
isease, in contradistinction "to „the above, poca 
itera ea 
nag Hose ia the fact that all the different : шел 
m and cure have been = 
Mr. “Smiths == pub blished i in 
umber. 
the 
history of Сыа. е t x Shae gs in. 1 article 
on | Gardeners? Chronic, 
Vitten (MS. Coll. of Arms, І, 13, fol. 354) :—'' Item 
his creste, with the farvron, or, sett on a efle 
glove, argent, out thereof issuynge, caste over theade, 
a braunc he of collo byns, blue, the stalk, vert.” Old 
Guillim also enumera ates the Columbine amongst his 
llows :— e b 
tions or s ART ia the throat.” P, de M. Grey 
Toons 284, мт Street. 
Culture of Strawberries in Pots.—I am sorry 
nave ides any тишче ction or Жыл ings чил а 
now obsolete, it is gratifying to а young gardener 
like myself to hear how things were done thirty years 
ago, but I cannot express deep sympathy with any one 
still clings with such eo to his old e 
When I coupled “ .'s" practice as а Stra 
so to illustrate to your correspondent how far he 
was behind as pag asd with the cese eh M 
now grace ou сы 
rooms, The анне" of the + a Juy pec 
August is old Dis to me. seem un- 
pardonable offence with hg p.” c ae ie E 
means at their command, o endeavour to keep 
with не times ud growing "ruit of Манай quality 
Let me ask ** W. P.” if he has ever met with an em- 
stove who prefered a small a, fruit to a 
large well-flavoured one, or if he has еу a 
are few young p much less old ones, who 
uld eed 
iscard Keens’ Seedling e either for indoor or 
outdoor work, but in n this Айту. Т загар (on the banks 
of the Mersey), a ce Yorkshire, 
indoors and out : and now the question arises, which 
a e — like your correspondent will surely 
be able to answer, Is this state of thin: i 
bei 
ард tell at a glance wi 
trawberry plant has perfected its growth, and 
thoroughly окна and ripened its crown. Then 
comes the period of res t but i it must not be at the 
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roots intact until the plants are required in their 
respective batches for forcing. I layer my runners 
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circumstances, I have had png taken a 
in boxes filled with nothing but leaf-mould. In 
they root quickly, and lift is nice little balls, er 
finally potted at once. To satisfy disputan would 
— Iam sorry to see I have vexed Mr. Ward E 
my y allusion a Des eo iga ү perhaps I 
erred in using the word ‘ t he recommends 
the practice in селе; end that is the reason I 
