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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ January 24,1889. 
Then as regards selling—a very important point to consider—if my 
experience of eighteen years on the “ road ” is worth anything. I find 
the very first requisite to tempt a sale is appearance ; second, quality ; 
third, price ; fourth, something in the mechanism or construction they 
cannot understand. Fruit, such as Grapes and Peaches, are just as 
good to eat in the dark with the “ tloom ” rubbed off, but who will buy 
them to set on his table ? I fully believe glass sections will always sell 
for 3d. each more than wooden ones ; but even if they only sold readier 
at the same price it would be a decided advantage. Then, again, it is my 
decided conviction that honey in glass sections will be the cheapest and 
readiest way in which it can be produced and sent to market in the near 
future. I agree with “ Felix ” that the subject of bees is far from ex¬ 
hausted. Let me at once distinctly disclaim being the first to make a 
section wholly or partly of glass. I have never said or written one word 
to imply that 1 am. Many have tried their hands at the problem, and 
after producing a few for show or as curiosities have abandoned them. 
My sections are on quite a new principle, and easy to make if the tools 
are correct. No others by whomsoever made are like them. There are 
very few supers in use, even those made for extracting only, but what 
can be used to work them at very little extra cost. Supers made for 
square American sections will turn out 4| square glass ones, and 
so on. 
The idea of making sections of glass has long been a tempting 
problem to solve. Mr. D. A. Jones, Editor of the Canadian Bee Journal, 
told me that he and his men had spent much time and money trying to 
make them ; but, as he said, “ What is the commercial value of a section 
that costs more to produce than it will sell for filled with honey ? ” 
These few words put the whole question in a nutshell. I know of 
more than a score of different ways of making glass sections, but none 
bring the cost of production down to be possible for general adoption, 
except the one I have recently developed. I anticipate an enormously 
increased demand for honey sent to market in glass sections, and if I am 
not mistaken they will place apiculture on a firmer and lucrative basis. 
—A Hallamshire Bee-keeper. 
THE PRIZE SCHEDULE FOR THE ROYAL SHOW. 
What purports to be a copy of the above is printed in a contemporary 
for January 3rd. 1 believe the Executive Committee of the British 
Bee-keepers’ Association are the authors or drafters of it; if so, they 
must be congratulated on making a great improvement on those of 
pi evious years, and though it presents several objectionable features it 
contains so much that is “ good” that the only thing necessary to make 
the Show the most interesting and best ever held is some good weather. 
Classes 4 and 5 are for 4J square section and standard frame hives 
at 15s. and 10s. 6d. each, every part being specified ; the prizes obviously 
to be given to those who offer to do them at the least money. I thought 
after last year at Nottingham the idea would never be brought forward 
again. 
The best contested hive class will be the third, “ For the best and 
most complete frame hive for general use, unpainted.” This is all it 
says, so that there is no restriction as regards size or shape of frame ; 
nor does it intimate that its price is to be taken into consideration. Its 
obvious object being to give all inventors a chance to bring forward 
into open competition what they consider is the “ best,” all being well I 
shall compete in this class with my new hive. 
Class 8, “ For the best pair of section racks ” makes no mention 
what size section they shall hold, so that here again inventive talent has 
full scope. 
All the 5-comb honey classes are open to any size or shape of section 
or material. There are five classes in which sections can be staged, so 
that glass sections have a chance to carry all before them, if they can, 
which is highly probable. 
Class 17 is for 12 lbs. of Heather honey. Unfortunately few of us 
got much of this last year, and the Show will be too early for next 
year’s crop. 
I regret that no class is provided especially for a migratory bee hive, 
with conditions imposed for testing it stocked with bees. Of course 
one could be shown in classes 1 and 3, but they would not get tested, 
and obviously a migratory hive that would not safely travel stocked 
with bees over two dozen railway sleepers would not be correctly 
described as “ migratory.” 
Taking the schedule as it stands I freely admit that there are far 
more good features than bad ones, and these latter will not mar the 
former. I think exhibitors will not enter anything in them, so that 
they will not be much noticed ; or if they do, they will refrain from 
offering goods for less than they can be honestly made for.—A Hallam- 
shire Bee-keeper. 
TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
Jarman & Co., Chard, Somerset.— Catalogue of New Seeds for the 
Kitchen and Flower Gardens. 
William Fell & Co., Hexham.— Spring Seed Guide, 1SS9. 
Henry Deverill, Cornhill, Banbury.— Select List of Vegetable and 
Flower Seeds. 
Thomas Davies & Co., Wavertree, Liverpool.— Catalogue of Vegetable 
and Flower Seeds. 
Fisher, Son, & Sibray, 4, Market Street, Sheffield.— Catalogue of 
Kitchen Garden and Flower Seeds. 
Cardno & Darling, Aberdeen.— Catalogue, 1SS9. 
John Perkins & Son, 52, Market Square, Northampton. — Catalogue 
of Vegetable and Flower Seeds. 
Samuel Fox, Armitage, Nottingham. — Catalogue of Flower and 
Vegetable Seeds. 
Harrison & Sons, Leicester.— General Seed Catalogue. 
Dicksons & Co., 1, Waterloo Place, Edinburgh.— Catalogue of Garden 
Seeds, 1SS9. 
M. Cuthbertson, Rothesay, Scotland.— Catalogue of Garden and 
Flower Seeds. 
R. H. Poynter, Castle Green, Taunton.— Annual Seed List. 
De Reydellet, Valence (Drome), France.— Catalogue of Chrysan¬ 
themums. 
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 un¬ 
avoidably. We request that no one will write privately 
to any of our correspondents, as doing so subjects them to 
unjustifiable trouble and expense. 
Correspondents should not mix up on the same sheet questions 
relating to Gardening and those on Bee subjects, and should 
never send more than two or three questions at once. All 
articles intended for insertion should be written on one side of 
the paper only. We cannot reply to questions through the 
post, and we do not undertake to return rejected communica¬ 
tions. 
Book (./. IF.).—We know of no work more likely to be useful to 
you than the “ Parks and Gardens of London free by post from this 
office for 2s. lid. 
Propagating Lapagerias (IF. S. i S'.).—The strong shoots coming 
through the soil must be left to grow, as they are of no, use for 
propagating. Healthy growths that are moderately firm, not small, hard, 
wiry-looking stems, are pegged down into a bed of sandy peat surfaced 
with sand, about half of the leaves from the joints inserted being 
above the soil. These under favourable conditions emit roots in a 
year, growths springing up from the buds in the axils of the leaves, and 
as a rule the better these are the better the growths. 
Bignonias (T. T.). —With attention to two points in the culture of 
these plants you ought not to fail in obtaining flowers. Endeavour to 
avoid rampant growth by restricting the roots somewhat, and then 
insure the wood made being fully ripened by exposure to sun. With 
moderate growth little pruning will be necessary beyond cutting out 
flowerless shoots. They should be planted in a mixture of loam, peat, 
and sand, with good drainage, and then water can be freely supplied, 
but manure will not be necessary unless the plants become weakly or 
seem to have exhausted the soil. 
Worms in Pots (J. S.). —We know of nothing safer to apply for 
eradicating small worms from the soil in which your plants of Adiantum 
farloyense are growing than clear lime water. Place a large lump of 
fresh lime in a pail of water, or several in a larger vessel ; stir well, then 
let the water stand to get clear, by the lime which it cannot hold in 
solution falling to the bottom as sediment. If there is a little of this 
the lime water will be as strong as it can be made, but if there is none, 
the water will not be so strong as it should be. The soil should not be 
dry when the lime water is supplied. It will not injure the plants, but, 
on the contrary, if the soil does not contain lime, may do them good, as 
most Ferns like lime, including Adiantums. 
Coelogyne cristata (IF. S. S'). —You have no occasion to be 
alarmed because “ the pseudo-bulbs are growing over the sides of the 
pot.” We have seen some of the finest Ccelogynes in the kingdom that 
have been grown for years in pots no larger than yours, the pseudo-bulbs 
nearly covering the sides of the pots. If the plants appear healthy and 
flower well we should not disturb them, but after the flowering the 
older portions of peat and sphagnum could be removed and fresh 
supplied. Good fibrous peat is the best that can be used, and the 
sphagnum is employed for surfacing. If the plants are weak potting 
can be done at the time advised, giving good drainage, but do not 
attempt to crowd the pseudo-bulbs into a pot ; a wide pan would be 
preferable. 
Hot Water Pipes Leaking (A Fifteen-years Subscriber). —The 
only course open to you when the sockets burst is to take them out and 
have new ones. The leak arising through the evaporating troughs being 
screwed to the pipe may be repaired, but it would be better to have a- 
new piece. You can, however, remove the troughs and make the old 
screw-holes a little larger, so that new but larger screws can be used. 
When evaporating troughs are used they should be cast with the pipe, 
Screwing them on, as yours have been done, is only a makeshift process. 
