and five and one-fourth inches liigh on the 
outside. The hive should be made thirteen 
and one-eighth inches wide and two feet 
long, and a stick seven-eighths of an inch 
square and twenty-five inches long morticed 
in the ends one-half inch from the top. 
There are two rows of frames, and one end 
of each frame rests on this stick. Two open¬ 
ings should be made in the edge of one side. 
The other hive should have plenty of drono 
cotfrb given to them. Now the operation is 
comparatively simple. 
To start queen cells, tAke tliree of these 
small frames with the adhering bees and 
place them in a nucleus box; care should 
he taken not to remove the queen. One 
frame should contain honey, one brood that 
is capped, and the other eggs. An opening 
half an inch deep and two inches long should 
he made among the eggs. The box is now 
closed and upward ventilation is given. 
Place the box in a dark corner of the cellar 
and let them remain there three days, when 
they will not return to the parent hive. To 
save all the queen cells that are made, more 
nuclei must he formed, and all the queen 
cells except one removed from the first box. 
More cells are made when the comb is new 
than when it is old and tough. Seven days 
after the first queen cell is capped over, all 
the other cells should be removed, for the 
first queen that emerges is sure to kill all 
her rivals. A comb containing brood should 
be given to each box two days after the 
queen has hatched, to strengthen the little 
colony and also to incite the queen to make 
her excursion to meet the drones. 
After the queens have commenced laying 
they should be removed, and the process 
again repeated. If any black bees are kept 
in the same yard they should be placed in 
movable frame hives and frequently supplied 
with drone brood taken from the hive kept 
for rearing drones, and the vacancy in the 
drone hive should again be filled with drone 
comb. 
The advantages of the breeding hive are 
that nuclei can be very easily formed, and 
after they are formed they can constantly 
be strengthened with brood. Also, the 
young bees are the ones that rear queens, 
and by this method plenty of young bees 
are constantly in the nuclei. 
Canajohario! N. Y., 1869. ’ J. H. Nellis. 
best manure. It contains more potash than any 
other animal manure; hence, as potash is the 
grand constituent of a strawberry, it is also 
excellent for that delicious fruit. In a word, 
cow dung Is one of the best manures. The 
same may Vie said of soot, which contains nitro¬ 
gen and carbon, in watering pot roses a skewer 
should be used to make holes in the soil to let in 
the water. 
gloxitnlintt 
NOTES ON FLOWERS AND SHRUBS, 
1 "was glad to see “ B." draw attention to 
the beauty of hyacinths, tulips, etc., when 
planted in masses on the lawn. Nothing 
can be more magnificent or attractive at the 
season than these beds of spring flowering 
bulbs; and then the same bed may he con¬ 
tinued in flower all the season, onward until 
frost comes, by planting verbenas, geraniums, 
etc.:., among the bulbs. It is true, in making 
the plantings, as well as taking up the bulbs 
and re-planting, care must be used; and, 
perhaps, not always will the blooms of all be 
quite as perfect as they would had the 
ground been given alone to the bulbs. 
I have found another place for bulbs also 
to be most effective, and where 1 geL some of 
the be t blooms. It is just tit. the outskirts 
of a low branching evergreen that may be in 
the lawn ; or il the tree has been Irknraed up 
some two feet or more, (a thing which ought 
never lo be done,) then plant the bulbs un¬ 
derneath, placing crocus nearest the body of 
the tree, then narcissus, then tulips and hya¬ 
cinths in alternate rows. The reason why I 
put the crocus and narcissus underneath is, 
that, they do not care for so deep a soil as 
hyacinths, and they also bear almost com¬ 
plete shade with impunity. At the proper 
time for re-planting bulbs, 1 hope some one 
will introduce the subject again. 
j have just been among my shrubs and 
perennials. My fipitui prunifolui Jlo/r piano 
being just out of bloom, 1 have cut it back 
into form, taking off most of the wood of 
the past season’s flowering. I have also 
clipped my white and red double-flowering 
Almonds, not of course taking away all the 
flowering wood, but so cutting as to induce 
the coming growth to make them perfect 
round hea led bushes. My Upright or Tree 
Honeysuckles are now in full flower, and 
they must be cut back as soon as the flowers 
die away; otherwise the hushes soon become 
tall, ragged, bare stemmed scrawns, instead 
one mass of 
Remedy lor Rose Slugs.—A correspondent of 
the Country Gentleman recommends whale oil 
soap as a remedy. He says:—Make suds with a 
piece of soap as huge as a lien’s eg g to a gallon 
of water, and sprinkle the bushes thoroughly 
by any means at band. A garden syringe, or in 
the absence of such o convenience, a small brush 
broom, can be used with good results. By making 
the application at Intervals of six or eight hours, 
most of the worms will get a drenching while 
feeding on the upper side of the leaves. It may 
be necessary to repeat for two or three days. 
A second hatching should be treated in the 
same way, and if thoroughly attended to for one 
or two seasons, you will find your roses free from 
this post, 'l'iiis is a rare remedy. 
Large \VUfarIn.—In r.ho Bielon Gardens, De¬ 
vonshire, Kngland, there is a plant of the Wista¬ 
ria Sinensis that measures three hundred and 
fifty feet in length of stem. At two feet from 
the ground the stem is four feet six inches 
around. It is trained on the sides and root's of 
out-buildlngs and basso many different positions 
toward the sun that blooms are produced upon 
it from March to October.— Gardener's Chronicle. 
jypian m 
heightens the beauty of the other. The 
color of their flowers varies, in the different 
varieties, from pure white, through all the 
shades of pink, striped with white, yellow, 
orange, variegated, purple, red, &c. Any 
good garden soil is suitable, although they 
are most vigorous in rich turfy loam. 
To plant among low growing evergreens 
of any description the Azalea is one of the 
most showy and desirable shrulft. From 
their habit of blooming in profusion before 
any leaves have grown from their stems, the 
mingling of them among low evergreens is 
particularly desirable, inasmuch as the one 
MANAGEMENT OF BEES. 
There fire various modes of management 
with bees. I will give mine, hoping it will 
benefit somebody. I visit my hives as often 
as once a week—most generally twice at this 
season of the year—not every day, for that 
disturbs them too much. In the first place, 1 
have prepared a brush, by taking a rod about 
eighteen inches long, as large us a linger, and 
tie on a spear or two of broom corn. The 
brush about six inches long. With this T go 
to my hives; with one hand 1 tip the hive 
up and brush out all of the sediment; occa¬ 
sionally I find a worm, which, if let alone, 
would hatch into a miller. In this way I 
keep them mostly clear of worms. 
The hives must be kept down on the bot¬ 
tom hoard at this season to prevent robbing, 
and the passages to the honey boxes closed. 
About the 10th of June let them pass into 
the cups and tip the hive back, and put a 
piece of lath under the front corners to give 
them air. The patent hives are managed 
differently in some respects. I have three 
kinds of hives, Lee’s, Lancstrotu’k, and 
one of my own invention. * As to the profits, 
1 can’t tell the difference; but there is a dif¬ 
ference in the expense, for my hives cost only 
two-thirds of the patent hives, and as they 
arc not patented, any one can make and use 
them. They are twenty inches high, and 
large enough to bold four small caps or two 
large ones. The under part holds a bushel, 
or two thousand cubic inches, eight by ten 
glass hi the lower part, and door to cover it. 
flow many eggs does a queen bee lay in a 
season ? This is a question no one can an¬ 
swer; but it is estimated that a good-sized 
swarm contains about thirty thousand; but, 
say twenty-five thousand. Then it has been 
ascertained that the bees that lived through 
last winter die before another winter, and 
must be supplied by an increase, so that she 
must lay twenty-five thousand 10 keep the 
number good; if they swarm, there is twen¬ 
ty-five thousand more, which would make 
fifty thousand; and if they have a second 
swarm of ten thousand, this would make 
sixty thousand, which is a small estimate 
with some apiarians. A. Willson. 
Maroollus, N. Y., 1869. 
de Clieswick, Pearl of England, Sir Hurry, 
Rose of Castile, Emperor Napoleon, Spe- 
ciosa. 
— In tills connection we give an engraving 
of the Fuchsia known as “ Mrs. Story” be¬ 
longing to a class of Fuchsias with white 
corollas, produced by an English florist 
named Story. It has scarlet crimson sepals, 
a white corolla, veined with rose. It is fine 
form, slender habit and a free bloomer. 
February, after the new wood had begun to 
form well on his plants. After the cuttings 
are well rooted, which will be in about two 
weeks, pul them into half-pint pots, in com¬ 
post made of one-half well rotted hot-bed 
manure, one-sixth well rotted cow manure, 
(two years old is better,) and one-third well 
rotted turf. After the plants are well start¬ 
ed in the half-pint pots—say in three or four 
weeks—transfer them to the pots in which 
they are destined to make their full growth, 
the larger the pot the better. To get large 
plants, plenty of room must be given. Two 
or three gallon pots should be the smallest 
used, with the same compost as before. 
Plants so treated will grow over five feet in 
eight or nine months. 
The Fuchsia is a gross feeder, and requires 
plenty of root room. The plants should not 
be watered too frequently. A single over¬ 
dose may do material injury. When the 
plants arc dry they should be thoroughly 
wet, and then left, until dry again. The 
plants may be allowed to flag occasionally 
with advantage; but to produce perfect 
plauts the tops should be syringed every 
day. For watering plants set in large pots 
use clean water only, but when the plants 
are t ransplanted into small pots guano water 
may be used to advantage. Use a pound of 
guano to a pail of water, and take a pound 
of that mixture to a gallon of clean water 
for watering. 
When the plants are set out of doors they 
should he placed where they will he shaded 
from 11 to 3 o’clock—say under trees whose 
branches droop to less Ilian ten feet from the 
ground, and where there is a free circulation 
of air. 
of as now, compact bushes, 
flowers from the ground up, to a height of 
about four feet. 
By the by, let me tell all lovers of flower¬ 
ing shrubs to make a note of one designated 
in catalogues as “ Lonicem puiverulenta” it 
being one of the very best—quite distinct 
and truly beautiful. The flowers arc deep 
pink, almost reddish, edged with a light 
blush. As the colors fade the flower seems 
as if viewed with the white lines through 
the red. 
My gold-leaved or variegated Snow Berry 
is a beauty this season, and now one of the 
most attractive little shrubs in my garden. 
Everybody stops to look at it. 
My Persian and Chinese Lilacs I murk 
for pruning. The bloom has been abundant, 
alihough my priming back last year was 
considered very severe by many who ought 
to know bow to manage them. 1 want my 
shrubs to give me flowers and foliage all 
over, not a B uss here and there at the end 
of a long Imre slick. 
fituphylm and Ilalexia are both now in 
bloom, and 1 almost hesitate to praise one 
over the other. Jlalma ,is, however, more 
showy, but & 'tapleylea is so easy of growth, 
and as 1 have it clump-like, it is a beauty. 
Wieycla Jf'/rtcum rubra, with its dark 
red buds, is just opening in flower. I think 
its beauty is as much in the bud as the flow¬ 
er; hut, being one of the earliest of the 
varieties to bloom, it is quite desirable. 
Wieycla UuUne, with flowers nearly white, is 
another variety that blooms early. 
Among my perennials I never pass old 
Scarlet Lychnis—Double Red Ragged Robin, 
without remarking that among the old 
plants it is one of the best. Ranunculus 
bullosa with its perfect cupped, yellow flow¬ 
ers, about half an inch in diameter, is another 
good one; so also PoleMoniam e/rundijlora, 
with its clusters of clear while flowers on 
stems about eighteen inches high. I think 
it is little known, but those who love flowers 
should add it to thoir list of perennials. 
AqulUrjcu carypfiylhi , with its double flow¬ 
ers of all shades, striped and variegated — 
some with dark red centers and outside 
petals striped, others creamy white with 
purple stripes, is one of the best Columbines 
— and Alpina , with outside petals a dark 
purple blue, tiie center petals tipped largely 
with white, is also another variety of great 
beauty. 
Too little attention has been paid to hardy 
perennials—a class that may safely be called 
the poor man’s plants; for once they are 
planted little care is needed to have their 
their blooms in abundance yearly. 
Frank Amon. 
FLOWER LISTS, 
Walter Elder in the Whitlock Exposi¬ 
tion Recorder gives the following lists of a 
few of the flowers which do best in sunshine, 
shade, and both: 
“ For shade:—Sweet Alyssum, Calcoleria, 
Fuchsia, Mimulus, Feverfew, Scented Gera¬ 
niums, Lobelias, Musk plant, Pinks of sorts, 
German Aster, Anterrliinmn, Marvel of Peru, 
Chrysanthemums, Dahlias, Tlmnbergias 
Tropseolums (the last two genera are climb¬ 
ing vines.) All the above will flourish in 
partial shade of trees or buildings, and yet 
they will most of them do in sunshine. 
'Die following like the bright sunshine, 
although many will do with slight shade:— 
Ever Blooming Roses, Aloysia, Gazzania, 
Cuphia, Lantana, Blooming Geraniums, 
Caleus, Achyeanlhus, Maurandia (a vine,) 
Cypress vine, Globe Amaranthus, Canna, 
Vinca rosea and alba, Salvias, Heliotrnpcums, 
Pansy, Balsams, Esehscboltzia, Caliopsis, 
Delphinum, Cock's Comb, Petuncas, Verbe¬ 
nas, Zinnias, Caladiuin, 
The following genera are bulbous plants 
that bloom during summer and autumn: 
BEE GOSSIP, 
Tiie bee interest is waking up in this sec¬ 
tion-many are going into it that gave it up 
years ago, and those that had a few hives 
are increasing them. Some men know how 
to make money by keeping bees, and that 
induces others lo try that have little or no 
knowledge of the business. Doubtless some 
will have what they call poor luck; but if 
the season is favorable, there will be double 
the quantity of honey sent to market (Ids 
season that there was three years ago. Tiie 
bees are gathering the pollen, or bee bread, 
nearly as fast as when the trees are in blos¬ 
som. It has been a very favorable winter 
for bees in this section, there have been but 
two nights that the mercury was below zero. 
Mr. Bonxel thinks there is no such tiling 
as white clover honey ; hut 1 think he will 
change his mind on close inspection, for I 
consider white clover the most important 
vegetable in this section. 
I put a part of my bees in the cellar last 
tall, and took them out the first of April. I 
think they came out better than those that 
were on the stands. 
My bees last 3 r ear averaged about seven 
dollars per hive, including the increase; 
there was about a fortnight of the best time 
that was affected by the drouth. I visit my 
bees every fair day, and see that no robbing 
is going on, and once a week see if there are 
any worms on the bottom boards ; the mill- 
el’s are very troublesome if not closely 
watched. The apiarian must pay proper 
attention to his bees, or he is the loser. 
Marcellus, N. Y. A. Wilson. 
■P 3 
ARTIFICIAL QUEEN REARING. 
As the Italian honey-bee is now generally 
conceded to be superior to the common bee; 
and as most of our bee keepers are striving— 
with more or less success—to introduce them 
into their apiaries, a plain practical method 
of queen rearing at this season of the year 
may not, come amiss. This method of rear¬ 
ing queens is based upon the well known 
fact that if bees are deprived of their queen, 
when they possess eggs or young larva?, they 
will immediately set about rearing another. 
I will remark here, before proceeding fur¬ 
ther, that, all queens should be carefully 
started from the egg, as queens started in 
this way are generally more prolific, and do 
not become barren as young as when they are 
started from brood in the more advanced 
stages. 
The first thing to be done is to procure at 
least two Italian queens, to avoid the neces¬ 
sity of “in-and-in” breeding. One of them 
should he perfectly pure, and the other may 
be a pure queen that has mated with a "black 
drone; for such queens produce pure drones: 
in fact, the handsomest drones that I ever 
saw were reared from such queens. 
These queens should be introduced to good 
stocks in frame hives, and, when populous, 
the stock containing the pure queen should 
be transferred to a breeding hive containing 
about thirty-two small frames six inches long 
Fuchsias may be kept over winter in any 
cellin’ which is suitable for keeping vegeta¬ 
bles, except that, they want rather more 
light. When they are to be taken in they 
should be dried off gradually with care. 
The leaves should not dry and be picked off, 
but should turn yellow and drop naUirally. 
After they cease to receive watering they 
should be syringed during the drying off 
process. When the plant is to be started — 
which will be about January 1st. for the 
.green-house — lift it from the pot, shake the 
dirt from the roots, and prime the roots 
severely. Take off all the knife will reach 
without cutting into the dirt. Cut hack the 
tops at the same time, and do not prune 
•after the plant is started. 
In cutting hack, reference should be had 
•to the habit of the plant, and it, should be 
shaped accordingly. A plant which, like 
the Pride of England, naturally takes the 
bush form should not be forced into the 
umbrella form, while another plant, like the 
Souvenir de Clieswick, which takes the tree 
•or umbrella form should not be forced into 
ibusli form. The plants do better when per¬ 
mitted to follow nature. 
In answer to an inquiry what six varieties 
hsc preferred, Mr. Smith named—Souvenir 
Worms in Decs.— I would say to Grigsby, Alle¬ 
gan, Mich., that if his stocks liave comb enough 
and are not qucenless, there will be little fear if 
lie will go every morning and hill every warm 
that can be found. He says the worms are nearly 
full size, and wishes to know if they have re¬ 
mained in this stare alI winter. They have been, 
in the hive all winter, but have probably grown 
very much since the bees have commenced 
breeding, on account of the warmth thus ac¬ 
cumulated. The young dead bees arc those 
that had to bo removed to get at the worms. 
As an effectual remedy Grigsby should 
try the Italians. In the various manipulations 
among my bees this spring I can candidly say 
that I have not discovered a single moth worm 
among my Italians, while around my black stock 
I have found very many. J. II. Nellis, Mont¬ 
gomery Co., A. Y. 
King Birds and Bees.-I have seen the king 
bird catch worker bees, while they were gather¬ 
ing honey from white clover. I have seen them 
dart down and catch bees when they were on the 
blossom of tho white clover. I also saw them 
catch bees lust spring, before any drones had 
made their appearance. I shot one and found 
worker bees In ills gizzard, and I will shoot all 
the king birds that I see around my apiary. 
There is another bird, smaller than the king 
bird, that destroys a good many bees. Whoever 
does not believe, let him go where white clover 
is in bloom, where king birds are found, and he 
can sector himself.— Cor. Bee Journal. 
FUCHSIA MRS. STORY. 
Amaryllis, Gladiolus of numerous varieties, 
Japan Lilies four varieties, Tigridias three 
species, Tuberose, of delightful perfume.” 
CULTURE OF FUCHSIAS 
We extract the following ft’om an address 
before the Norwich, Conn., Horticultural 
Society, by Joseph F. Smith, a practical 
cultivator, who makes a specialty of this 
plant. He remarked that he took his cut¬ 
ting': usually in March, or the latter part of 
Compost for Potted Roses. — A correspondent 
of the Cottage Gardener, London, says that the 
best compost for potted roses is one-third each 
of rich, stiff clay, sand, or fine ashes, und decayed 
black dung. Pelargoniums, fuchsias, roses, 
strawberries, hollyhocks and dahlias all like 
cow dung. For the last two, it is perhaps the 
