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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ December 16, 1883. 
advantage where the nights are cool, and by having it thus warm quite 
satisfactory work at feeding can be performed as late as November. 
Where a person has not the feeders or the time to prepare them, the 
best thing to use for such a purpose is a common milk pan. Set this on 
the top of the hive and fill it with syrup, or give the desired amount, 
after which pull off two or three handfuls of grass and scatter it over the 
syrup for a float, or use shavings or corn cobs as is preferred. The 
trouble with these latter is that they soak up much of the syrup, while 
the former does not. Set up a small piece of board or a chip against the 
side of the pan so that the bees can easily climb over to the feed, when a 
hole is to be opened, to the hive below by turning up one corner of the 
quilt or removing a slat in the honey hoard for the bees to come up 
through. Now scatter a few drops of food down through the hole and 
over the chip, and put on the cover, seeing that the joints are all tight, 
so that no robber bees can get in. However, if a person has time at his 
command feeders made as follows will prove much more satisfactory ; I 
have used such for four years, and never had anything in the feeder line 
which pleased me so well, and I have tiied nearly all the feeders 
in use:— 
Get out two pieces of wood, having them the size of your frame 
except less three-quarters of an inch at the top, and one-quarter of an 
inch thick. Nail, those on each side of a frame, tilting the joints together 
with white lead so as to prevent leaking. If after making hot beeswax 
is run all over the inside there is no possibility of leaking, and all soaking 
of the feed in the wood is prevented also. Bore a hole in the top bar 
to the feeder for a funnel, and your feeder is ready to be hung in the 
hive the same as a frame, where it can be left when not in use if 
desired. 
To feed, cut a little slit in the quilt to correspond with the hole in the 
top-bar of the feeder through which the point of the funnel is to be in¬ 
serted and the food poured in. When the funnel is removed the slit in 
the quilt closes up so that no bees can get out to annoy the operator. 
As the feeder is only an inch wide there is no need of a float, as the bees 
can easily reach either side, so none stick fast or drown. By using two 
or more feeders to a hive the winter supply can be given at once, or the 
bees can be fed for stimulation as slowly as is desired.—G. M. Doo¬ 
little in The American Bee Journal.) 
The Weather. —While all round have been experiencing severe 
storms, we have been enjoying perfectly calm weather. There have been 
two singular phenomena, the one a heavy fall of snow early last week, 
which lasted only five minutes but measured 2 inches deep. The other 
was an abnormally low barometer much lower than was ever known 
during the memory of men.—A Lanarkshire Bee-keeper. 
TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
Charles Toope & Co., Stepney Square, Stepney, London, E.— Illustrated 
Catalogue of Heat ing Appliances. 
Hooper <fc Co., Covent Garden, London.— List of Cereals for 1886-7. 
J. B. Pearson & Sons, 2, Exchange Bow, Nottingham.— Descriptive List 
of Garden Seeds for 1887. 
James Carter & Co., 237 and 238, High Holborn, London.— Highly Illus¬ 
trated Catalogue of Vegetable and Flower Seeds. 
° 0 !i All correspondence should be directed either to “The Editor” 
or to “ The Publisher.” Letters addressed to Dr. Hogg or 
members of the staff often remain unopened unavoidably. We 
request that no one will write privately to any of our correspon¬ 
dents, as doing so subjects them to unjustifiable trouble and 
expense. 
Correspondents should not mix up on the same sheet questions relat¬ 
ing to Gardening and those on Bee subjects, and should never 
send more than two or three questions at once. All articles in¬ 
tended for insertion should be written on one side of the pap^r 
only. We cannot reply to questions through the post, and we 
do not undertake to return rejected communications. 
Address (S. IK. Hurst pier point). —If you write to the Editor of the 
American Florist, Boom 81, Vanderbilt Building, New York, U.S.A., en¬ 
closing th e requisite amount in stamps for a reply, wo feel sure he will 
endeavour to supply you with the required information. 
Landlord an d Tenants’ Liability (H. T., Bristol). —Without knowing 
the precise cond itions of the tenancy, we suspect no one can give a definite 
answer to your question. If you cannot consult a solicitor, a house agent 
on the spot wou Id be able to give you better information than we can, on 
your explaining the whole circumstances of the case to him. 
Vines not Losing Leaves (Merchant). —Your Vines are, like others, late 
in shedding the foliage this yea". There is nothing unusual about them, it 
is a consequence of the peculiar and late season. The cousse you have 
pursued is quite right, but the tempe ature by day ought not now to exceed 
50° artificially. We have had the leaves on the Vines until the New Year. 
We are pleased to know our advice had been of service to you. 
Average Temperatures ( Bray Subscriber). —We cannot give you the 
average temperature of any particular county, as the records or many 
stations would be requisite for determining that, altitude and shelter 
causing great fluctuations over even a limited area. Perhaps the best infor¬ 
mation we can afford you on the subject is to give the average day and 
night temperatures near London over a period of forty years. For the 
three months requested these are :—March : day, 50.S Q ; night, 33.4 Q . April : 
day, 57.4° ; night, 36.3°. May : day, 63.9 Q ; night, 40.4°. If you require the 
general average you have only to add the day and night figures together, 
then equally divide them. 
Autumn-sown Turnips (Old Subscriber). —We should determine the 
question of digging them in according to the supply of larger roots that 
can be stored for use during the winter and early spring. Duiingsome 
seasons, when the winters are uot very severe, autumn-sown Turnips not 
large enough for storing pass tbe winter and are often s rvic.’able in spring, 
and, moreover, not a few persons enjoy Turnip fops cooked as greens as a 
change from vegetables. Their remaining on the ground through the winter 
will not have an injurious effect on the land, e3p icially if it ba of a light 
nature ; but most heavy soils are improved by exposure to fro3t and broken 
up now and then when encrusted. 
Norwich (Albert G. Eagles ).—In reply to your delicate satire wa can 
assure you that we are really aware of the existence of “such a place as 
Norwich.” We actually explored it more than half a century ago. We 
also know that Carysanthemum shows were held there many years since— 
indeed, they were among the first shows of their kind. We believe a 
Chrysanthemum show is still held in the old city, but we were under the 
impression that the Committee preferred it to be regarded as a merely local 
event, as we have no recollection of seeing it advertised nor of receiving a 
schedule, and it is certain no tickets for reporting the exhibition reached 
our hands. Possibly on reflection you may be induced to concrive that 
some slight movement on the part of persons who expect publicity is not 
without its influence in securing it; and we can assure you it is quits the 
usual practice of committees of horticultural societies who desire to have 
their shows reported to accord f icilities of the nature indicated to the 
conductors of the horticultural press. 
Plumbago capensis to Flower in August (A Subscriber). —The plant 
should be kept cool and dry, but not so dry as to cause the wood to shrivel, 
until early April, when it should be pruned, and having the ball reduced 
about a third be repotted. Growth may be encouraged by syringing, but the 
moisture at the roots must be moderate until the roots are working freely 
in the fresh soil, when it will be required more freely, and when the pot i3 
filled with roots afford liquid manure once or twice a week. The plants 
may be started in a vinery or Peach house, and after some little growth is 
made it will be best given a light airy position in a greenhouse or conser¬ 
vatory. Its free flowering depends on the ripening of the wood. If that 
is got strong, short-jointed and firm it will flower freely enough. It should 
flower about the time you require, but plants for special purposes require 
judgment in keeping it cool if too early, or placing in heat if not sufficiently 
advanced. 
Stakes Dressed with Petroleum (Idem). —The painting of the stakes 
from plants that have been infested with mealy bug will not injure the 
plants they are placed to next year. Petrol urn will assuredly destroy the 
mealy bug, if care is taken to use it effectively. The p droleum will have 
dried from the stakes long before spring. 
Cropping Kitchen Garden (lmpecuniensis). —You cannot have a crop of 
Potatoes and Onions from the same ground in one season. The Potatoes 
will not be off before ttie middle of July even with early varieti-s, and if 
you then sow Onions they would only be fit for bunching in the early spring 
as young Onions, and are not very remunerative. A better p'an would be 
to have Potatoes of an early variety, as Yeitch’s or Myatt’s Ashleaf, a yard 
apart, and plant between the rows with Brussels Sprouts or Broccoli. If 
you have the Potatoes and Bruss Is Sprouts the ground would be available 
again for Potatoes, and having the rows of Potatoes 4 feet apart Scarlet 
BunDer Beans could be sown between, which would give a good change. 
In the following year you could have Onions followed by early spring 
Cabbage, off in time for Celery, and the ground after it would be fit for 
anything. Onions pay well, so also do early Potatoes. We should 
certainly have Potatoes and Brussels Sprouts the first year. Manuring 
the ground once a year is suffi;ient,in uutumn or early spring. 
Screen for Garden (iV. S. R.). —We quite follow your sketch. As you 
cannot spare much room for the screen a neat hedge would be suitable. 
We should plant two upright - growing Conifers, such as Cupressus 
Lawsoniana, at the ends of the flower border, and they would mask the 
extension of the border in the kitchen garden, and have an ornamental 
appearance from the house. A hedge could then be taken across either on 
the kitchen garden side of the path next the lawn tennis ground, or at the 
other end nearer the fowl run, the former plan we should think preferable. 
We should raise a mound on which to plant the hedge, which on the path 
side next the lawn could be faced with rockwork and planted so as to be 
ornamental. The entrance to the kitchen garden could be by the two Bide 
p ,ths, forming another behind the h dge to reach the central walk. The 
question of forming the hedge is very much a quest : on of cost. The 
Japanese Privet is cheap, quick growing and neat, but Conifers have a more 
feathery appearance, and good sized plants to begin with, say of the 
Cupressus named, would cost much more than similar plants of the Privet. 
A cheap method of forming a screen in summer is to sow a row of Sweet 
Peas, Scarlet Bunner Beans, or Sunflowers, but a permanent evergreen 
screen would be the more satisfactory. 
Photographing Leaves (T. It., America). —Extremely pretty represen¬ 
tations of Pern fronds, and all finely divided leaves, may be obtained in 
white on a blue ground by means of red prussiate of potash in the 
, following way. Make a fairly strong solution and paint it on white paper 
