^96 OBSERVATIONS ON 



BEANS SOWN BY BIRDS. 



Many horse-beans sprang up in my field- 

 walks in the autumn, and are now grown 

 to a considerable height. As the Ewel 

 was in beans last Summer, it is most likely 

 that these seeds came from thence ; but 

 then the distance is too considerable for 

 them to have been conveyed by mice. It 

 is most probable therefore that they were 

 brought by birds, and in particular by jays 

 and pies, who seem to have hid them 

 among the grass and moss, and then to 

 have forgotten where they had stowed 

 them. Some peas are growing also in the 

 same situation, and probably under the 

 same circumstances. White. 



CUCUMBERS SET BY BEES. 



If bees, who are much the best setters of 

 cucumbers, do not happen to take kindly 

 to the frames, the best way is to tempt 

 them by a little honey put on the male and 



