THE 
JULY 25, 1874] 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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be long in filling it with pure honey if 
not 
ng stoc 
: agi: vag S ijed th he Abingdon gei This is 
l the A er super, and is liable, 
a impie a e e pede stal on which 
use 
are liable. s build. teir combs to 
: super is placed is rem e 
he $ e bees 
lid: this is a serious ein three pi ge is also much 
ġe lid, and the s 
and lid is much prefera abie. 
e know of no ornament so beautiful _on our small 
table, and we shall feel glad if w induce others 
i work them in preference to fower-pot, which are 
certainly out of place in the beehiv 
How To Destroy BEES.— Will any of your cor- 
to destroy a swarm 
ts give me advice how 
of bees which last me into all hole in my 
wall, the said wall being of stone faced lined 
with I fear t he ch a position 
it may be 
d up we fear the 
rough t the pre pulleys 
; uced to 
ki á erce e and attacked 
1 lay y e bees 
me just in passing, leaving two s 
i w wou ild qu ickly deed tel, ey it could 
wt be applied without ews apparat U 
dicircumstances the best plan to pursu 
will not only stupify them, 
git if used a suficient diie, and in a confined 
a few minutes kill the whole 
KHEATH, — 
G WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 
| Ftygrome- 
TEMPERATURE OF Soetigna WInp, 
THE AIR. | Glaisher 
Tables 5th 
Edition. = 
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[F023 74.953.721 2/63 gt 0.9 53.8) zt E: ; oxo 
+0.28 76.5149 S62, 2| 0-0.53-0) 67 E. jo.o0 
+ 0.25 76 8 46.2 eat 0.2 51. 4. - - 0.00 
+ 0.09 88.7 53.035.7 67:7 + sel 75 | E.N.E, 0.00 
9.10 91.8 55.4136. a ag ataca 8 56.4) s6{| 55 S.E. : she 
[36 80.057, ‘pie -9 66. ) + TE I1 62 lar 
— 9:04 75.0 52.9 122. 160. r — í 4 59. sia 70 wi 
es E T] A 
| saa 
la eday; a wt light Baas were jenin revalent. 
a Ver ee cloudless with slight exceptions. Ai 
Sree dP a clouds prevailed ; 
o 
w and misty in early morning ; Sa e, with variable 
r z 
-5 t in morning; clo 
nera ally overcast 
ae 
fo 
Bj 
ar] 
® 
ane presen ra are 4 &. h 
wan u ermometer in 
= a vacuo, = S fah op ath to the sky, was 158°. 
r deate ith üt fine. A little thin rain fell in the 
amount of cl 
drops of rai ei inai iarria Ar large, and a few 
n the neighbourhood of London the readi 
in 
Sr wt the level of the sea increased py Ms 
the beginning of ep tes eek to 
; gher than that 
~~ 0.16 inch higher than the average of the 
zeny educed from observations 
were Merry 
night w 
» and that on the 18th 4 
week of 543 
Oj — e ars 
3th, | 
én isto 
-0°.2, showing that the weather was considerably 
warmer on the first four days than during the latter 
portion of the week. 
The highest 
A the values on the 17th and 18th being 
as low as 40° and 37° ad we The general 
irecHone of the wind w 9. and E. ; its 
gth was very geike” nha at times the air was 
ca ight clouds were frequently pre- 
faint and the weather was fine. No rain fell during 
the week. 
In England, the extreme high day aga gia 
exceeded 85° at Bla oP at Wolverham and 
Manchester, and were 77° at N 
78° at Hull, 
to have A a 
astle was 12ł, and Sri ton 263°. The 
mean temperatures of the air at Wolver. erhampton was 
663°, and at Hull was e average from 
the stations ies 64° nearly. 
The fall of rain fey “the week was variable ; 
and up to lat hate 52", 
verage of three-hundredths of an 
r the midland counties ; at Liverpool and 
Manchester W three-quarters of an inch fell; 
bout half an st at Bradford and Leeds, and about 
one-tenth of an inch at Sunderland and Newcastle ; 
the es gen average fall was about two-tenths of an 
n Scotland, the temperature of a air exceeded 
sr? à Edinbu urgh and Leith, general gee 
t 
30 
mean temperatu at Edinburgh 
an Dundee 624" and the genera average was 6 
The fall of rain was varia reenock 0,16 inch 
a = inch nearly ; 
At Dublin ee highest Amim was 81}°, the 
Apr 48°, ant the range of temperature in the week 
as 33}°; mean temperature was 634°, and the 
fall of aes was 0,14 in 
JAMES GLAISHER, 
+ 
Garden Operations. 
(FOR THE ENSUING S E aAa 
[The subjoined directions ended to supply 
general information, a bea 
to the pecu 
mA Bee according to the req 
pecial directions for the 
ent of ““ “The Villa Garden” will be found in 
the E grepsting-o0 columns. | 
PLANT HOUSES. 
GREENH ee HF oe eee PLANTS.—If wi 
have a continuan e excessive hot weather pete 
a ee for che last a w weeks, it will necessitate 
continual and careful attention in watering. It fre- 
quently ee that a ‘olan ie vigorous growth, and 
abundance of Toots, may not, at the 
i apr general morning’s watering, 
sufficiently dry to require mo yet before 
ora 
ires. 
up, and appear a — right for a seo or two, even 
longer if dull w ensues, after which it will be 
observed to hip a Tittle at the points whet exposed 
to the ei amined found wet 
ani gh, i 
the operator son fom. she that it 
has dried w Iute since the las a day 
Jer as if vitriol had ho applied, by the water 
given to them in the full s s Borer when the 
whole energies of the pm id 
root functions, were 
death in n many a fine plan h 
occurred if the a | had been differe hen 
a reg is found dry in the way above 
it analy moistened by the co 
REWA wei ag the pounce of the pot repe 
i absorbed all the 
ntil i 
will wake, “slightly syringing the plan 
check leaf evaporation, until this can be supplied 
c 
garden e present ‘time 
ina sorry pli ht for wati ee so far as the supply 
for the different subjects grown under glass—soft-wa: 
most capacious, bein am 
O, 
o 
a 
oe 
i= 
ully exposed to the air, 
allow of its belt subject to the softening influence for 
zaleas Pene Fy aS are being pushed on 
for ers as quickly as poss 
will now be setting their bate ~ 
e they exist no time should be 
ing t "the splint with tobacco-water, to 
which Gishurst Pace has been. added, prepared 
vious Calendar: 
e eniyfowering She should a 
out-of-doors here they 
be vue what! protected “dome ni an in its full Mote 
day force, but without being too much shad 
Whilst exposed to the open air do act elevate the 
u aa — n verted pope 
n they are t 
such a 
xposed to d ing currents, iad are somewhat 
natural moisture 
e oe ones met wi 
during their mont va outdoor 
trom the ground as above described. These plants, 
although not often nsec to the pest, are onset 
attacked with red-spider; but where any rusty a 
ts should be 
tio 
a — ei 
sometimes a difficulty in reg the time beet flower- 
ing t ted-out porti Sem te latter have 
set ‘and are sufficiently forward for the par- 
ticular season they will be required at, it ee sere 
once tO 
er 
excitement, even if the pot plants happen t to be more 
esi In such case these latter 
ouse where they can 
be accommodate with the necessary treatment to ` 
eir growth and complete the setting process 
It is necessary to keep er in view, as if Ca- 
mellias get too forward for the time their when flo 
are required, there is no eA for it during th t 
season, as on hey i pite ied attempt 
at ret em; on ie perio hand, 
early in the autumn they can onl 
nding! ly h, and keeping the plants 
under such conditions as calculated 
heir flowers on ually: anything app ing 
