ns smallest branches terminate in a mass of 
rosy-purple flowers. Individually, the blos¬ 
soms are about the size of a shilling, and 
have six long-clawed, curled, or crumpled 
petals, not, unlike those of the scandent 
yellow-flowered SUiimuphyltwn cillatum. 
When well grown this plant is one of the 
greatest ornaments one could desire, either 
for a plant stove or cool conservatory. It 
will grow and flower freely, even when 
planted under a sunny wall in the sout.lt of 
England, and during the past summer wo 
ROSES AT N. Y. STATE FAIR 
‘ protection as where the snow-banks exist 
from November until May, The New York 
, bee-keepers usually 
PRACTICE INDOOR WINTERING, 
as it is safest, and most of them have good 
cellars and outhouses, which may be used 
for this purpose. Those who have large 
apiaries have a building devoted to the pack 
ing of honey in summer and the wintering of 
bees in winter. This is ventilated at the 
sides, bottom and top; has a stove, where a, 
fire is made when the temperature gets too 
low. One bee keeper had a frame made four 
or five feet long and one foot wide, covered 
with thin muslin, which he places over the 
front of the hive, with a light at the end of 
it, and thus affords his bees an opportunity 
of a little exercise during the winter. He 
uses this for entrapping swarms iu the sum¬ 
mer, and considers it one of the necessary 
appliances. The beekeepers who have not 
enough swarms to make it pay to [invest 
much capital in conveniences, winter their 
bees in the cellar, if It is not damp, or in out¬ 
houses, or in the open air. The latter is often 
resorted to, and various things „ re used to 
exclude the wind, cold and snow and do ab¬ 
sorb the moisture that arises from the insects. 
STRAW HIVES. 
There are hives made of pressed straw, 
which, as non-conductors, are useful both in 
cold and warm weather. In one apiary, this 
style of hive was filled at the aides with a 
layer of sawdust a few Inches thick, and thus 
made an excellent winter abode for the bees ; 
the top had also a covering of sawdust, and a 
wide-spreading, sloping roof, made of thin 
boards, wideli was not fastened to the hive 
• uit could be taken off ul pleasure. This hiv 
is very light to 1 1 audio, and has a loose bot¬ 
tom-board, but no movable frames. In fact 
if has some disadvantages, and l notice that 
i' i« being replaced by the Quin by and other 
hives. 
THE QUINSY HIVE. 
is used through that section quite extensively, 
For Mr. Quiuby lives in .Herkimer County', 
and is highly respected, and the bee-keepers 
far and near consult him on the subject ol' 
bee-culture. His health is now delicate, and 
he lives quietly in a pleasant home near St. 
JoUnsvillo. Ilia hive is very large, but ladies 
find no difficulty in managing it. as the sides 
and top may bo taken off without disturbing 
the frames of comb, as these have their sup¬ 
port at the bottom. And, when exposed to 
view, any one frame may be taken out and 
examined without disturbing the others. 
Surplus boxes are placed next the frames at 
the sid* and on top ; and in winter this space 
is filled with packed straw, which i & placed 
ilia frame, that it may ho easily handled. 
Only one of these frames is used for the 
Langstroth and King hives, it being placed 
on top of the frames to act as an absorbent. 
A Quinby hive protected in this way will 
stand an ordinary winter in the open air. 
MR. CHARLIE VANOUZEN, 
of Montgomery County, is a very practical 
and successful bee-keeper, and he makes bee- 
eulturc a business, which is so complete in all 
its details as to interest other visitors than 
those especially interested in the subject. At 
the time of my visit, two young men were 
busy in the packing-room preparing the hon¬ 
ey for market. The glass sides of the boxes 
were all carefully cleaned, and the honey 
was all very fine, considering the season, 
which has not been veiy favorable to good 
bee-pasturage. His swarms w-ere arranged 
in rows in a yard, where they were afforded 
no shade, but a high board-fence was erected 
on the nort hern boundary. The Quinby hive 
requires less protection from the sun, because 
of its size, there being an air-space around 
the frames and a projecting roof on top. 
Then, too, the summers are not so long or so 
intensely warm as ours, as I have said before. 
This renders shade in the summer less essen¬ 
tial than it is in our section of the eountrv. 
Mr. Vanduzen, in comm on with most modern 
bee-keepers, sees no reason w r hy ladies should 
not engage in this pursuit, to some extent at 
least. His wife knew nothing concerning 
bees previous to their marriage; but, to 
induce her to take exercise in I he open air, 
lie succeeded in interesting her in them, and 
she now has the care of several swarms. He 
has certainly demonstrated the fact that 
bee-keeping may be made a delightful occu¬ 
pation, and not only this, but lie makes it 
profitable. 
■loasnio Hanet, John Hopper, La Koine, 
E’Enfant du Mt. Carmel, Madame Louis 
Carigui, Madame Allred do Itougemont, 
Maurice Bernardin, Pius IXtli, Portland 
Blanche, Sou. de la Koine do Beiges, Sydonia, 
Victor Verdier, Prince Albert. Tea: — 
Marochal Niel. Perpetual. Moss : — Delille, 
Saiet. 
Collection of 118 Varieties ( Hybrid Per- 
petuals). —Eugene Appert, General Simpson, 
Gen. de Chateaubriand, Gigantesque, Louis 
Bonaparte, Lady Pord wick, Madame Julie 
Duran, Michael Bonnet, Panache d’Orleans, 
l’auline Lausezeur, President Lincoln, Sou. 
dela Reine d’Angle ter re. Bourbons:— Apol- 
line, Bello Isadora, Blanche Lafltte, Comte 
cl’Eu, Duchesse de Thurmge, Edouard Uet- 
fosses, Emile Courtier, Gen. [Blanchard, La 
Choice, Lc Grenadier, Marshal Vi liars, Mrs. 
Bosanquet, Phoenix, Pierre de St, Cyr, 
Queen of the Bourbous. Nnine.Lt.es : — Ad¬ 
miral Itigney, America, Beauty of Green- 
mount, Belle Marseillaise, Champney’s Pink 
Cluster, Caroline Marniesse, Cornelia, Eu- 
phrosyne, Fellembcrg, Isabella Gray, Jaques 
Argent, Jane Hardy, Lamarque, Madame 
Deslongchamps, Mademoiselle Ausline, Nar- 
cisse, Phaloe, Pumilla, Washington, Wood¬ 
land Marguerite. China: —Agrippina, Alice 
Walton, Antheros, Arch Due Charles, Beau- 
harnois, Belloa, Buret, Camellia, Cels, Cy- 
(lieri, Daily or Common, Duchess of Kent, 
Eliza Flory, Eugene Pirolle, Five Colored, 
General Soyez, George do Pigeon, GraudvaJ, 
Imporutrice Eugenis, Jacksoni, Laurouceana, 
Louis Philippe, Madam Bureau, Monthly 
Cabbage, President d’Olbecquc, Prince 
Eugene, Purple Crown, Queen of Lombardy, 
Sangffinca, Triumphant, ViritBscens, Whito 
Daily. Tea: —Archemede, Bon Silene, Bon- 
gere, Camay, Caroline, Clara Sjdvain, D'An- 
theros, Devoniensis, Fleur de Cypres, Gen. 
fartas, Gerard Desbois, Gigantesque, Glory 
of Dijon, Homer, Isabella, Isabella Sprunt, 
Janne d’Or, La Pactole, Leveson Gower, 
Louis de Savoie, Madame Bruvy, Madame 
Damaizin, Madame de Vatry, Madame Fal- 
cot, Madame Halpiu, Madame Maurin, 
THE WATER, SOLDIER 
nave seen it flowering very freely out of 
doors in several of the gardens around Paris. 
When grown in a pot or tub indoors it 
makes a shrub eight or ten feet high, and 
flowers freely every summer or autumn if 
cut back after blooming. It, should have a 
moderately fresh sandy soil, and should he 
thoroughly well drained. It requires a lib¬ 
eral supply ol water when growing, in 
America it does well out of doors, and a 
plant of it stood tifluen degrees of frost in 
the Botanic Garden at Brest. It is a native 
of China, One species, 1,. regime, grows to 
a large size, and is much used in India for 
boat building and similar purposes, as it, 
lasts well when submerged.— B. in London 
A WESTERN GIRL AMONG NEW YORK 
BEE-KEEPERS. 
Ella Dunlap, a young lady who devotes 
much attention to bees, and who has visited 
New York the past season, thus gives her 
impressions in the Chicago Tribune ; 
With an eusy conveyance and a pleasant 
corr panic>n I traveled over a port ion of Mont¬ 
gomery, Schoharie, Herkimer, and Otsego 
Counties, of New York, in early September, 
and observed a great difference between that 
soction and Central Illinois, the former being 
veiy picturesque; but, viewing the farming 
operations through the eyes of a Western 
girl, I was reminded of the past ages, and the 
farmers called to my mind the statue of 
Patience on a monument. Though I was 
ultimately satisfied that New York possessed 
many things which entitled it to be called 
the Empire State, I 
COULD NOT INCLUOE FARMING 
as one of these. 
The Unpretentious blossoms of the golden- 
rod, which yield quantities of golden-hucd 
honey, brightened up the roadside in those 
autumn days, nud formed a pleasing contrast 
to the troublesome Canada thistles, daisies 
and milk-weeds, that were too numerous. 
Many fields of buckwheat, and occasional 
patches of white and Alstko clover, served as 
fall-pasturage for the honey-bees, of which 
there appeared many swarms, though the 
loss there of swarms was as great in propor¬ 
tion as at the West, but they will not be so 
WILD BALSAM APPLE, 
on it that 1 found in the woods the other 
day. Please give the mune of it through the 
Rural New'-Yorker, and if it van be grown 
in our gardens with success as a climber • if 
so, how should it be p ropagated—from seed 
or roots or slips ? I found it in a piece of low 
ground, and it had made a very rapid g row'th 
-T. G. Williams, St. Joseph, Mo. 
The plant is sometimes known as the Wild 
Balsam apple, but its scientific name is Ec.hin- 
ocijti.i lohnta. It belongs to the Cucurhita- 
eecr., cucumber or gourd family of plants. 
It is a native of the Eastern as well as West¬ 
ern States growing in rich bottom lands 
along the banks of streams. 
PLANTS IN BOOMS, 
LAGERSTRCEMIA INDICA 
The Garden says :—We ha ve many plants 
that are well adapted for use as permanent 
ornaments for apartments, although there 
ure but few in general employed for that 
Purpose at present. Among the plants best 
Though not so often found in collections 
as it ought to be, this is one of the finest and 
most profuse flowering of green-house or 
half-1,ardy shrubs. It blooms freely in the 
Palm-house at Kew, -where the ends of even 
Those of our readers engaged in bee c'd- 
ture are invited to exchange experience in 
this Department, 
