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and disposition of the bees, as well as the 

 mode of treatment which should be adopted 

 by bee-keepers. An experienced expert and 

 bee-master also contributed some valuable 

 information, while several novel descriptions 

 of hives were exhibited and explained to the 

 audience. Amonst the hives shown were 

 the " Ardmore " and " Woodville " invented 

 by Mr. Lonsdale, of Lurgan. Mr. W. Lane, 

 Vernon Mount, Cork, showed one of the 

 Stewarton hives built up in stories like a 

 tower, which he has found very successful, 

 and a lady exhibitor showed another with a 

 colony of Ligurian bees. The hon. sec, 

 Mr. J. Crosbie Smith, exhibited a hive 

 made by himself on Abbott's longitudinal 

 pattern, and fitted up with "close ended" 

 frames, which are said to keep the natural 

 heat of the bees better in the hive than the 

 " open ended " sort. Altogether the exhib- 

 ition was very pleasing and instructive, and 

 augurs well for the success of the associa- 

 tion, which is only a month in existence. — 

 J. T. HosFORD, Cork. 



A CHILD'S RAMBLE. 



The subjoined is the unaided production 

 (except in the names of some of the flowers) 

 of a little girl seven and a half years old. 

 It was not sent to us for publication, but we 

 are so pleased with it that we have no hesi- 

 tation in giving it to our readers. — Eds. Y.N- 



On Wednesday afternoon, May loth, it 

 being fine and warm, my mother and I, 

 along with my father and my brother 

 Charles, had a naturalist ramble. We went 

 to Hey Wood. We got on at Lockwood 

 station, and met Mr. and Mrs. Heeley at 

 Berry Brow station, and went forward to 

 Honley. There we went to the woods. 

 First we went into the west wood. First 

 my brother found some beetles, and the 

 wood is full of bluebells, and a few celan- 

 dines too. Then we saw some rabbits and 

 rabbit's burrows. Then we went forward 



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and found a blackbird's nest. Now we have 

 two fields. In these fields we found violets, 

 purple orchis, primroses, and my brother 

 Charles caught a frog. Then my father 

 found some lungwort, and then we went 

 forward into Hey Wood. There we found 

 some white bluebells, and marsh marygold, 

 and garlicks, yellow archangel, wood sanicle, 

 and as we went forward we heard a phea- 

 sant crowing, and then going forward we 

 heard a chafl&nch sing. When we got to 

 the top we got over the wall into the road. 

 Following the road we past many fields con- 

 taining flowers till we arrived at Berry Brow 

 station. Then we waited a few minutes for 

 the train. Then we rode home, and 

 we felt quite refreshed after our good 

 ramble. 



BIRMINGHAM NATURALISTS' 

 FIELD CLUB. 



An excursion was made to Sutton Park 

 on Saturday afternoon, 20th May. The 

 trees were in their full foliage, and the park 

 looks to its best advantage, but the ferns 

 have not yet unfolded their leaves. The 

 holly, mountain ash, and hawthorn in flow- 

 er, with swarms of insects gathering honey 

 from them, and all day long may be heard 

 the notes of the cuckoos as they call to each 

 other among the trees. 



Notes. — Saw a wild duck by the Keeper's 

 Pool, turtle dove in Lower Nut Hurst, two 

 crows in Darnel Hurst, and found two nests 

 of missel thrush with young. Water crow- 

 foot flowering plentifully on Keeper's Pool. 

 Lepidoptera captures. — (Gum Slade) one 

 Theclcb rubi, ^Holly Hurst) J/yocsna argiolus, 

 also distributed all over the park where 

 there are holly bushes. On trunks of trees : 

 Bidentata (several), T. consonaria. and ere- 

 puscularia (very plentiful), viretata (very 

 plentiful), M. fluctuata (plentiful), one A. 

 remutata and several pugs. — W. Harcourt 

 Bath, Sutton Coldfield. 



