SEPTEMBER 25, 1875.] 
ISTE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
395 
some of these adventurers. It is not very long ago 
since a leading horticultural firm published a letter 
which D р a correspondent, in 
whi n offer made to supply them with any 
quantity ot material s тазе e the purpose of ad inal 
terating seeds ; an any of our readers will remem 
Mr. nde 
Hullett and the vari iod: wonderful белени 
which he purported to have made. ‘*They manage 
se things," however, ‘‘better in France," as th 
sin 
& collection of раз 
ошеа drawings of entirely i imaginary plants, of a 
stock of common wild 
Wheth eai have migra metica or er i 
would perhaps be diffi to ascertain ; but we should 
agine that either they or Mr. Hullett must be con- 
cerned in th ction of a paragrap ich 
recently appear th rican ZZ 7, an 
hich we г ce in extenso for the benefit of our 
ade . Baker and Mr. 
**One isablack Lilyin Santa Clara, California, wi 
three large blossoms, each 9 inches long, and у 
black cubile of f the green petals, The other is to be 
to the Narcissus genus of bulbs. 
The flower represents a perfect humming-bird. e 
r perfect emerald-green, is a complete copy 
of and th t, and eyes are a per- 
gre 
Sancta spiritu 
its life- za тергоо © 
ate of excitement in 10 whi ch horticulturists 
will be тебін by these irr announcements, and 
the d with which аА will look forward to ** our 
Centennial celebration in 1876" can only be equalled 
by aehóólboy'a éaticipaion of the Christmas holi- 
days, or something its e as such antici 
are wont . “The Narcissus genus of 
bulbs? has certainly su f ; indeed, z м 
ea voemus, the charact 
might venture to m 
th d ecially the latter, would 
as distinct 
: 
ener? Ch pana will figure both m 
t we were aware e 
of hydrophobia by ‘a hair of the dog that bit A 
eall rtained am ; but 
cutting from a Hong K 
Celestials are by n 
of advertising their wares. It is h 
eee for counteracting the effects of poison," and runs 
“ In the middle decade of the sixth moon І came from 
Tung rem to Hong Kong in a passage-boat. In the 
tied her up, and searched h 
alarge packet o 
were каса of poison oe it several fresh 
oison. Acc condi. on taking a peep into the 
water-tank, we ү saw innumerable little worms. 
Catching some of t e took them out and 
among ^g the Augen 
Several tr. 
oo same resu E 
e се E that when any one gets poison he may 
know that the proper thing to do is to eat fresh Garli 
bulbs, and ii its effects will be i — — 
is smal the benefit im 
“AIL y iiec who see "this are requested 
instantly As po it EG чуг wi Inestimable will be 
your merit an 
3 qoom. issued dio the * Household of Accumu- 
lated Goodnes 
B. M. 
Siotites of Books, 
THE Flore des Serres for current month con- 
tains coloured plates of the endement Ба plants : 
—Nemastylis geminiflora, acinthus candicans, 
Tigridia? Van Houttei, үү eed peruviana, with 
variegated leaves ; rete o Melon Noir 
ose h 
des Carmes, R h, Paradisia 
liliastrum, Conv ты петог Рејагровішпј 
Queen Victoria, Senecio macroglossus, Eucalyptus 
cornuta, j 
pages 
iand Agacia nemu, This publication has 
so descriptions of the plants above- яровой, кай 
illastratious of a variety o "E C а rs, also 
lithog opao of the ав урт.) Tatebition ‹ a Phila- 
delphia, 
The last issued part of the җе rela ae 
by M. Morren, who doubts 
the absorption of the dissolved insects, 
—— The Revue Eng of the 6th inst, has a 
coloured pisc of Cattley ite. 
article 
effects on plants. of the recent шадан а t Tou- 
use, &c. 
—— The Bulletin d'Arboriculture for - present 
mon on contains a coloured plate of Gra 
Chasselas de Fallodx,: a vicit of чон 3o ose. It 
hasthe good qualities of the Chasselas, with a fine 
osy tint, 
—— According to the ves indeed лын M. 
Teinturier, ‘of Rouen, alleges that, in the case of the 
Balsam, old seeds reproduce the vict ters СТ the type 
whence pared e mn hence the practice of sowing 
seeds e These feeble pinis, 
ing, m dies very double eimi gd but in 
fier they have been well watered, they pre 
growth 
duce single 
wn experience, as recorded i Bigot of the 
Botanical Congress of London, 1866, p 
—— Publications received :—The ея of н їп 
Techno f Plant 
address at the meeting of йе 
f Queens y 
Bernays.— Education (Brooklyn, New 
York).—Vine Culture for Amateurs, by P 
H Office). —The American Garden ; a 
quarterly journal devoted to garden art. 
— 
Apiary. 
Tue second annual exhibition held by the British 
Beek ? Association was on Wednesday at 
the Crystal Palace. It was continued on Thursday and 
Friday last. Sir John Lubbock is the P ident of this 
Association, which has now members in every - 
of England. Its objects are the encouragement, 
provement, met advancement of bee culture in the 
United 
ing the зыны of 
labouring classes, as wellas the advocacy of humanity 
to the industrious labourer—the honey bee. 
hives and honey which the exhibition of last year 
drew forth excited great interest, and hundreds of 
persons made their first experiences of bee re in 
1875. Unfortunately, it has been а very bad seaso: 
with cold 
fed a good deal by their Pina and th 
is exhibited is not on the whole 
1 
pronounced Ist, while Mr. Fox, 
with a gross weight “ 93 1b., not 86 1b., was held to 
ualified, Sons had the 
out of the cells in which it is stored. 
ofi ingenious contrivances for feeding bees, for housing 
houses, and erring them 
rom hive to hive were shown. Mr. Abbott, Mr. 
C. W. Smith, succ 
Denmark the cheap and elegant hives used 
sam al prizes were e for cottagers, and the best 
super of honey in rev class was shown by a 
cottager whose wages do sic 41a week, but 
who adds to them by the ide busy hi 
such крона should be, wi 
k. 
агара 
тонат тт PE in addition, А oe John Hunter, Hon, 
the Association, lished a 
arti a r req 
from this that in the Present month of September h e 
must finish all the honey-taking, bring home his 
stock from the moors, and feed them with sugar 
water, for they go to the moorland country i 
bee-master puts warm covers and padding to the hives 
to keep them warm for winter. So the bees live till 
February, when the Crocus blooms and the bees 
begin bei pollen home, unless some unfortunately 
wW. y tempts them , and the 
tomtit, waiting at —&ё door of the hive, suddenly 
seizes them and ws them, leaving only the 
sting. In March more ‘6 fob i given. young 
bees of the season begin to to Бо ; and as the fruit 
May brings 
trees blossom feeding is discontinued. 
the whole hive is 
In July and August the 
valuable swarms. 
busy honeymaking. 
rie is reaped from the supers, and the honey- 
g still goes on. As to the e uses of the honey, it 
is ss sare absent from breakfast-table in Switzer- 
merece Sonn Сека, ка а чш 
states it is useful, as prizes given yesterday to Mr. 
h for sack-mead and to Mrs. Jones for 
fruits preserved in honey j sweetmeats, cake 
ns, pastiles, and chocolates occur in Mr, Hun- 
tore list of the delicacies to which honey can соп! 
ліску 
value B 5, ЖЕТ is 
food a interest on capita 
of a g frame hive." er em should, therefore 
ing in the country, an маро } 
taught. В ei € Alp or Ligurian bees, with п 
e still iore DES than the com 
These oreign working 
rivals, 
and are less ready to use their stings. 
