GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
73 
F joy 18, 1874] LHE 
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such boxes on the top of each other, 
of all with a thick board, sod the 
o boa rd. I hav ve 
1 I see some very promising thing turn up. 
aes a off off the top division staity easily, and if the 
retty full there will not be many bees 
vin bor sp nf n empty one where I take the 
A one off, but perhaps it is better to add the empty 
one below, and sc the rd what was 
Í before the second division. S h for my general 
experience. her time I will give you a few 
more particul 
ANNUALS FOR BEE-KEEPERS. — Having during ioe 
last two days am notes of more than 250 kinds 
lants, of which a RRi lange proportion 
ather 
z opportunity of s 
cay vegetables, ges. of Panis 
be much ved of by be 
; i e was, 
one variety of a well-known plant which was literally 
beset with bees—Clarkia paletilla alba. I counted 
no less than five species of bees on it, and heard their 
music several yards off. W. 7: P. 
E ROEZL. 
7 
‘of the degree of Elegii manifested by i 
Judging from the history of 
many collectors, there are few occupations more fatal 
e may sorrowfully say to D e 
e sad fate of a very la ro- 
of botanical ean we may the more 6 oice 
the m 
n as Fortun Borm Bruchmuller and 
into us, Among ‘the m most indefatig- 
n 
e class to wich he belongs is certainly 
pe ive wi 
ez 
ns ssa in the towing notes, for the substance 
we are indebted to M. Roezl hi 
ie impression 
on Were given, Few travellers, it: is Fto be hope d, 
reg as M, Roezl does, that he has been robbed of 
i ions seventeen times. ne t ing we 
; from there I 
E in Ers to Count Lichtenstein, 
if to Ghent, to M. Van H 
i five years, 
(Russia), “Fro iga I went again 
le Outte for two Nes, but I could no 
i ips, ent ne es see the ean =a 
= viá New Orleans, to Mexico: this w 
ry 
From thence I sent to Europe Dahlia 
uvardia Hum mboldtii, Zinnia Haageana, 
» Agave schidigera and 
bred introduced into Mexico the 
eria tenaci ), lanted 
rd 
ent for my m 
hited ee = September I b 
tural 
; 4 bruary, 
the year 1868, of the loss of on 
In i 
ii 68. “This “discovery 
me that they Mae ‘sak in their pee ne they 
so r the other 
screws tahi. so is te 
together, and t knowing this, in. puttin leaf 
between the cylinders (making 360 revolutions per 
inute) co ra kis my fter- 
wards I again travell Mexico, and discovered 
oe mpia Roezliana rose ssh, Aphelandr. ra dilepitiokh 
, Campylobotris Ortgiesii, C. Roezlii, N 
fulgida ‘and digitaliflora, From Mexico I 
Havanna and Cuba 
tae 
ntains and 
BENEDICT ROEZL, 
assert. I also found here Smee Faas Saori 
Lei Abies ifi others that 
have been ‘published from ag o pr Tia om th ere I 
went to Panama and Ocaña, in New Grenada, where 
I found Utricularia pron Anatoa Ortgiesii, 
and forwarded abou rchids to Europe, and 
something like re species of plants. a there I 
e Sie artha ; I 
se ae re tid Roel | (Reich es ik of which 
I collecte plants. in one 
Hatcha. I also 
owing to the great matt in Rio a 
ound m new varieties of Odonto aan and 
forwarded upwards of 3000 to Europe 
TK beginning of the 
I a mt on and to San Francisco, and owing 
to any of my trae ere ived d t 
their "destinations Wishing to await the end of the 
ar, I wë the Washington Territory, and foun 
Lilium columbianum and a gre of Conifer 
éds. From there I ceeded to Sierra Nev 
pro ada, 
sg pirg to gather Conifer poset but the harvest 
was lost, - account of the severe sap rom there 
outh California, o Panama an 
a Zamia Roezlii 
= 
G 
kg 
Be 
° 
um 
nium Lindeni, and many Dieffenba 
Aroids, After a journey of six months I travelled down 
the Magdalen River and to Colon and Panama, thence 
d t 
is, 
plants and myself t 
Odontoglossum Roestil, a 
a nd on the way Masdevallia chimær: several 
new Aroids, which I brought myself to Europe. 
After staying about four mo and visiting the 
cipal towns and n my paren 
New York, T the Criei tonio in 
City I was robbed of 2000 dols., whole 
proceeding to New Mexico, fewer vet peanti 
a bac 
pulchellum, citrosmum, ro ny 
as epa 3500 Orchids, which arrived in London 
co 
Tarma an 
10,000 bulbs of various sorts, Pilocereus mollis, many 
antuas, new romelias, asas, Calceolarias, 
Futhsny Mutisias, en pgr other new plants, From 
thence I returned to a and Callao, to South Peru, 
to Molienda and Ep to Puno on t e a 
Titicaca ; from I o La Paz in Bolivia, 
nd from thence I went over the Snowy Mountains of 
dontoglossu elligerum, ogon Benedic 
Masdevallia aspers, popes new bulbous 4 oo 
oasas, Tacsonias, Tropzeolums, and othe From 
thence j returned to Tacna and Arica to pie ; from 
re in I went to 
to aventura to 
of Chee, wine I found Masdevallia 
chimæra, Odontoglo ssum Roezlii, Pescatorea Dayan 
and many others. With these I started once cade 
for London.” 
uch, in mere outline, is the account of M. Roezl’s 
wanderings, and of the results of his travels, 
. GREENHOUSE PLANTS.—XIII. 
THEIR CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT. 
Azaleas.—Of all the a in caeai riak as 
specimens for the exhibition stage, for ato: 
pe ox! them up to som pis 
uickly as poss Sask ; 
rea those wags e ale 
ently: hen i the ‘necessity of honman t a -growing 
young plan account ch 
as are at all A pe "through h too 
a hell 
i in small pots, or ee sue cold Ge 
omer I wut much Tn EN a newly-struck 
cutting, which, with proper treatment, will grow away 
and fat outstrip p aii ft oe ie stunted, eT much 
prefer those that rey w strong vigorous shoots, 
to those that have had ged shoots stopped so as to 
form little bushy plants, 
We en cues the plants to be i = something like 
6-inch pot to a dozen stout shoots ; if 
two seasons. owards n g : 
will require potting ; give them a 
from a rte Sara À pot; 3 use ee but good fibrous 
peat, broken into gitars about the size of acorns, and 
sufficient silver pi 
ke the house a iie Gon close. Through Api 
them a night tu to 
