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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
charged with oye the wood increases largely 
in eee cd the ary, when the atmosphere > 
dry it Ape gs sine ong the eran, an > 
fully to wet oe A ab r (suc 
fencing), it it Aad yn ae Mear sts a, 
but for fire ‘soho 
and garbiy with very little ash, and 
Hae makes is ery good comme: 
perly plan Aes meen for the 
ree months the trees pes r atten- 
be read 
A ekriyiig w market, as you 
alte or i termed on its feet. F. M. Henry, 
AN CUCUMBERS. —On my way home from the 
fair [of Nijni. Nove orod] I was 
, you couldn’t help Hnev that 
Cucumbers, like locusts, had 
earth. All along the Volga, fro 
Nijni, Lilt whole population seemed 
eating t Melons. Their price being three copeks, 
equivalent ph one penny, put them within the reach of 
moderately wealthy. 
that we aopa at the 
the Sunflower, were the 
t every 
grt porridge 
. Sometimes th 
without the schien, “aa sometimes the schtchi is 
without the kascha, but whether in separation or com- 
bination, the Cochin at least, is always there ; 
s am afrai it sometimes 
a's. ki is the last that one would select à priori 
this is onl one of a great many 
lain the recip B. at the 
Apiary. 
“A LIST OF PLANTS T FOR BEE CUL- 
TURE, excluding those commonly 
kitchen garden and i 
ht or three wee 
T.— For the per ii ve 
Erythronium Sa.” 
‘mas, hon 
sangria, honey 
Ribes 
Sdn saeco. honey Viola odorata, honey 
Galanthus nivalis, honey Saxifrag: ceespit sa, honey 
Leucojum vernum, hone » „hypnoides, honey 
Crocus ee, ney Arabis alpina, y and 
eee ee ee honey | _ pollen 
i us tubulosa, pollen Aubrietia columnæ, poll 
Primula officinalis, rara A honey coe oa ong 
Tieniti m ae # deltoidea, honey and 
3 moe pollen and 
Scilla amæna, honey 
Hyacinthus orien E 
Ornit 
ithogalum nut: hone: 
Fritillaria imperialis, honey 
niveus, 
Galanthus nivalis, honey | Taraxacum pr and pollen 
Leucojum vernum, honey | d pollen ä 
Crocus vernus, honey | Sa ew ucus crm ge 
» germanica, honey | Fraxinus » honey and 
» gramineus, h otier. 
pollen | Cornus mas, hone: 
Ribes s 
> 
runus armeniaca, honey | 
Mah: ee 
Orobus vernus, hone 
/Esculus hippotastanim, honey | 
Geranium phzum, honey a and | 
ax 
Wiehe odorata, honey 
Arabis alpina, honey 
+), Ah, 
Il.—F rom middle he April _ end vig May Sse 
| Aubri 
s tt 
ney > 
m e ent Tone) 
Barbarea vulgaris, honey 
Lunaria rediviva, honey 
| Helleborus foetidurs, 
onis vernalis polle en 
aii Prke RS 
ei s, honey 
Lilium Martagon, honey 
Aonta luteus, hon: 
Polygonatum officinale, honey 
» multiflorum, hon 
s 
sibiri 
Pag Bisson pollen and 
, pollen and 
T ne 
Rheum 
and 
A balamla cement 
d hone 
Armeria maritima, honey 
Salvia pratensis, poet 
verticill ata, hon 
hapontioum, pollen 
Betonica officinalis, 
Ekin till the end = = uly. 
syng 
ney 
clymenum -a 
» caprifolium, tion 
an 
nigra, honey 
Rosea lutea, honey 
»» Spinosissima, hone 
Fragaria chilensis, honey 
i as S ant hon ney 
vir na, hon 
Cytisus Tabarnai hoty 
Robinia Pseu a Acacia, kony 
Pavia flava ea, honey 
uta injinia one 
yin Fra sineli, “honey 
Althzea offici soe hon 
»» rosea, 
Reseda odorata, “honey 
Teal 
Melittis melisso klonk honey 
, hon 
SO a 
Digitalis purpurea, honey 
m Te 
Tut 
Veronica latifolia, honey | 
Polemonium cceruleum, honey 
ibe From the end of Fuly 
amen honey 
iolus gandavensis, honey 
Polyeuniia Sieboldii, hone 
Cannabis sativa, wax, pollen 
S tice Limonium, ho oney 
7 oney 
Dracooephalum ra ee 
hon 
Salvia sthiipis, oe 
hispanica, hon 
uren didyma, honap 
gg es ney 
nA barter. i oney 
bs  Kalmiana, honey 
Tea B$ pT | 
Leonurus cardiaca, hor 
Pentstemon hat telus _ Honey | 
Nicotiana rustica, hon 
ta 
ios SE) 
Phacelis congesta, honey 
Nolana paradoxa, hon: 
Convolvulus tri 
ney 
alina, honey 
i pyran midalis, hon ey 
” Sh 
satis tinctoria, aig ey 
þa d te J 
Q 
a 
Oc Fo 
8.5 
= 
Pp 
< 
g 
3 
-a 
° 
5 
oO 
< 
a the middle of weg ene 
ratum mexicanum, 
Helenium pumilum, honey 
Silphium amplexicaule, pallea 
Tume ria transsylvanica, 
Scabiosa ucida, pollen’ 
Godetia i albescens pollen 
| Clarkia pulchella, hone 
elegans, honey 
| Enothera Dadana. pollen 
hone 
Einoh angustifolium, 
Spiræa h: » honey 
» C olia, honey 
bus tus, pollen 
Linum perenne, honey 
Melianthus Major, ner 
— 
thuringiaca, polle 
Kitaibelia vitifolia, pollen an 
ney 
Ridireiteris paniculata, honey 
» carpatica, honey Reseda Knri honey. 
Lobelia rinus, honey Hesperi tronalis, ei 
Solidago virga-aurea, hon — velonealis , hon 
Senecio sarracenicus, honey Macleya c cordata, pollen 
Helianthus fern’ nhs honey Detphistom m ajacis, honey 
” soho oi S, rA » grandi , honey 
T: etes patula, hone A Nigella sativa, aney 
exaltatus ey » damascena, ho: 
reh honey » hispanica red 
Í the middle of Septe fill October, a 
the aaron as well as some of t regoing 
plan uch de sms upon the wether alee the 
kara Sen of: September as to what bees will do, 
Natural History. 
SNAKES (concluded Fie é 490).—The size of ina 
Re iA. usually in the harmless 
e not 
* We repeated the 
continue in ag Bs 
O see 
specimen, but, from the enormous 
part visible on this occasio: on, 
same Names, although many 
rene the dimensions oe those of anv 
oted. pe 
The , as its name imports, is viyipa 
digaro Soal, perhaps, be the best 1 exp 
di pannicle 
ie much like vnto a soft white jellie ; which 
me to be of opinion that our adder is the 
weak health 
with it killing her. 
“have felt 
n adders or ving’ 
could be ns eT odated in: 
a loss to tell ; but the ‘ited vent discove roung 
sugges 
wallow her 
her throat tied to prev their esca 
able anatomist, uninjured by blows, 
meio or ates rough ing. The 
dition is essential to any certainty in the ob 
for, as ha i out repeatedly 
course give means for young, 
a of the egg, W siray from their 
ity. 
poison cers consists of 
aw movable at pl 
i e secreting 
ile was exhau: sted 1 by its repeated 
as Tegards t the quantity or the strength of 
OU. f P's 
ite is said not to be dangerous Save 
patient is in delicate health or the b 
ceptible or the much irr 
very large margin of possibilities suggests the 
of not meddling with doubtful snakes. 
coming under my knowledge a spamie! 
itt e nose by a vi tong 
morning. Other dogs moving about 1 
were bitten from time to time, 
use dea! 
secalicr postion of the bite and the’ 
at the time might have had ! 
The abiye 
felt since then that whilst power oft 
mained ine in eal 
> SE poit: 
bas gr SE ies ea 
modality it snowing no signs 
. 
the o 
peration not 
touched the head, when 
ieni a meiren ` 
“ating any 
