OcTOBER 23, 1875.] 
ZITAS 
GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
523 
ninum viride, when gasping in a pape mation: 
merica, on the y, died 
fedi a diua set 
on, and diminished the amount of 
vapour, and the Mist o in кше and may have 
suflered. the same fate in 
he ‘br «in covers the Apple 
s the Isle of Avelon 
— Isle of огы etre А hold of Druidism, 
And possibly i ight be induced, in such a sheltered 
and fav ble situation, s. stri on the 
branches of the Oak, will do very freely o on those 
the Apple, when the viscid pulp of its fruit is 
smeared upon them, Æ. EversAed. 
The Villa Garden, 
WINTERING SOFT- морао Dom. —The follow. 
hose 
stings of early frosts have been felt by many tender 
Many inquiries are constantly P made by 
“have no greenhouse" as to how such 
best preserved through the winter, and 
ut о 
lated to defeat rather than to further the каб іп 
view ; and it is nearly as necessary to show ‘‘ how not 
to do it," as to e forth the best and safest means 
that can be ado 
A few days qo we were called in by a Ес to 
ре an opinion as to the means һе had adopted to 
in ew cherished bedding plants. It was an 
мес 7 ады: as to what to avoid. Не had 
under a north px s where very 
little sunlight could fal; he h out a shallow 
pit and fill with bed he had 
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war well meant, would onl tend to 
enc the e disadvantages o of the 
rate more da: Under such circumstances what the 
damp spared, 2 first i" frost would be certain to 
destroy. 
When 
ances as can 
зра have to be wintered by such contriv- 
t bee ae ieee м first great deside- 
ime, an 
garret, or ina cellar tha is агу, р provided some light 
can reach them. e plants may said to be 
ary and at voit ro dn winter, beri in that 
can be kept very dry during frosty oad 
Station 
tpe n aed 
damp weather 
struck in the o 
ve 
be sprinkled overhead, the leaves dried in 
d th put away in a dry loft or garret, or a 
e During the winter the boxes can be 
brought to the open air when the weather is fine, and 
watered, then dried, and taken back again to their 
winter ers. All decaying leaves should ber 
ove y fade away, and all signs of damp on 
| M des be similarly treated. Stumps of plants i 
of leaves, will 
be pro- 
porised i in some 
a pit, 
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material ; or failing these, of rough planks, of a suit- 
able height, and then utting in the bottom some 
br | icks, or mortar rubbish, or large cinders and 
е а foot epth, if ible. 
floor, and expose them in cpa! weather, protectin g 
them in some way from heavy rains and — ; giving 
much air and light as pos exible when it can be 
afforded, and suitable 
should be kep 
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the smallest pots that will contain them. 
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this Yay, but the Tay ile is that the plants 
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ch as Geraniums, dre th Fm ipei &c., 
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Apiary. 
THE IMPROVED STRAW HIVE,— et 
straw hi ives, me by those ет homi to ded gen 
sively in apiarian furniture, which very closely г 
semble each aduer. but, to inen to the high а aes 
FIG. 113.—PETTIT’S IMPROVED STRAW HIVE. 
lavished on them by the ре inventors,. we 
should feel inclined probably to purchase all th 
series. owever, I ho ым your oft after read- 
uad ry o 
ing these notes, will be pers only оф 
which he сапа кера so modify as to be equal to 
any cottage h 
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KEE $5 
FiG, 114.—COVER FOR IMPROVED HIVE. 
Pettitt’s Improved Straw Hive is as above figured 
(fig. 113), with an ordinary inch board, in which are 
e openings, closed by zinc covers sliding in 
i over these holes one or more 
Y 
real difference, either ize 
of possessing only one board fastened on the straw i 
hastwo, the upper one vp bes eto revolve on an iron 
pivot. hen the honey-g supers, are filled, 
instead of sliding in the zinc to o dnt out the bees, the 
wooden cover is turned round ; of course the bees are 
: branches 
pariso 
effe ctually ү аа from 
ut this point is is gained with s se expense “and 
trouble by using the zinc slides. 
Mr. Bevan Fox several y ince made a slight 
modification upon Pettitt’s Improved Straw Hive, 
which was e public in the pages of the Gar v 
Chronicle. The openings through the cover to the 
supers are usually m ound, ж» е bes 
poi out the po. advantage of having them 
shaped, c.g., one end being sharply pointed, а pon 
when pushing in the zinc slides, to ex bees 
before removing the мүр gra- 
or т destroying 1 the 
ives are p ai very reasonable in price, 
and, best of all, they can e manufactured by 
any one possessing a little genius. During the winter 
months I shall try to point out w useful hives, so 
to give our rhet soe! r of hints for 
Notices of Y 
Mycographia seu Icones Fungorum (Figures of 
Fungi from all Parts of the World), drawn and 
ОЛА by М, C, Cooke. PartI. Williams & 
-— 
There is little excuse now, except so far as the 
intrinsic. difficulty of the subject is concerned, for 
students of mycology being unable to determine either 
the names or affinities of the subjects which come 
are incorrectly cem iss gcn 
must Бе sed, though such collec 
Fries, Mougeot and N estler, Monogr ack Cooke, and 
сау that of Madame Libut, are very free from 
errors, which cannot em be said d some more 
recent publications. "There are extensive series of 
drawings, like those of Fries, Sau aa ipti others, · 
h help, besides all the 
av 
Sad sini, development, and affinities, as to 
make many matters clear which were formerly 
causes little 
involved in obscurity. From various 
c “ав 
regards such SpA eer from time to time more 
as been effected th AM ntly — but in 
ine ct of accurate diua n. this, e 
of botany, we may fairly Ыл com- 
No iine е н oe te in iis direction 
public than the work whose 
of the great ge a, contains 
twenty plates, whic figures and 
(€ of four species, with accurate admeasure- 
ts accor o the French t, by parts. 
hentic 
d still Зб to "regret the guiding master- 
mycologist. Trust 
hand of the ac Swedish ing that 
serves, 
рыс А. 
an honestly score es this work to hogs notice З, : 
аатай ако M. 7. Б, : go 
