THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
July 27. 
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and well mixed. As to heating, why I advise that it be 
permitted, nay, encouraged to become as warm as milk 
from the cow. There is little waste in their muck, and 
such is amply repaid in the mellow state in which it will 
come to hand when turned and broken. It is impossible to 
break up and blend manures too much. I will undertake to 
make two cart-loads of well divided manure go as far as any 
three in a raw and clotty condition. Those who do not ap¬ 
preciate this have much to learn. The more of various 
kinds of material the heap consists of the better, and the 
soil worked in is of eminent service in finely dividing the 
particles and absorbing any waste. It. Errington. 
APIARIAN’S CALENDAR. —August. 
By J. H. Payne, Esq., Author of “The Bee-Keeper's 
Guide," Ac. 
S warms. —Notwithstanding the apparently weak state of 
stocks, generally, at the commencement of _ the spring, 
swarming upon the whole has been earlier this year than 
usual, and the swarms which were timely supered have 
afforded some remarkably fine honey. There being so few 
stocks that survived the winter, every bee-keeper has been 
anxious for swarms, and, therefore, supered none of them, 
so that the fine specimens of honey that we now see are all 
obtained from swarms of the current year. 
Cottager's Honey. —At the Bury St. Edmund’s Horti¬ 
cultural Fete, on the sixth of July, which was held in the 
splendid gardens and grounds at Hardwick, about a mile 
from Bury St. Edmund’s, by the kind permission of Sir 
Thomas and Lady Cullum, the cottager’s tables “groaned” 
beneath an unusual quantity of excellently grown vegetables, 
and nine supers of remarkably fine honey, exhibited by as 
many cottagers. Several of them were sold, and all, I believe, 
had a prize of some kind awarded to them. Indeed, so 
thoroughly are the cottagers, hereabouts, convinced of the 
advantages arising from managing their bees on the de¬ 
priving system, that scarcely one can be found who has not 
adopted it. The day was a general holiday in this place, 
the shops were all closed at one o’clock, and business of all 
kind suspended by the request of the Mayor. Upwards 
of six thousand persons spent the afternoon in the gardens 
and grounds, which were enlivened by the beautiful band of 
the Grenadier Guards. Few persons appeared to enjoy the 
thing more heartily than the worthy Baronet and his lady. 
Autumnal Unions. —Where second and third swarms 
have been hived by themselves, they will generally be found 
too poor to live through the winter, even with feeding, and 
where this has been done they may be put two or three 
together in the manner directed at page 339, volume vi., of 
The Cottage Gardener. 
Wasps. —A more than usual number of these pests may 
be looked for this autumn, if we may judge from the large 
quantity of queens seen in the spring. Bee-keepers and 
gardeners should have their nests sought after, with a view 
to their destruction, for which, turpentine, as before directed, 
is the easiest and surest method. 
QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 
GARDENING. 
HARDY FERNS. 
“Allow me to suggest to you that a list of the hardy 
Ferns would be very acceptable to many of your readers, 
myself among the number. When I say ‘ hardy Ferns,’ I 
mean such as will stand in a greenhouse in which a fire is 
never lighted. Of course, all the British Ferns will do so, 
as also Jdianimn pedatmn, and the Lycopodium dcnticulatum, 
but there are necessarily many others; those from North 
! America, for instance. 
| “ I have a house which I devote exclusively to Ferns (an 
j old greenhouse placed under a north wall), and should be 
I glad to add some others to the beautiful Ferns which already 
I grace it. I thought that the Hare's-foot Fern would have 
succeeded, but found that it would not survive the last 
winter. I^ycopodium apodium I found, also, too delicate.— 
Scrutator.” 
[Besides the more ornamental of our native Ferns, which 
are suitable for a cold greenhouse, the following exotic 
kinds will succeed in a structure of that kind, if means are 
taken to protect them from severe frost; which even some 
native kinds, e. <j., Adiantum eapillus-veneris, and Asplenium 
murinum, will not bear :— 
Adiantum reniforme. 
„ affine. 
„ liispidulum. 
„ *pedatum. 
„ formosum. 
Asplenium palmatum. 
„ lucidum. 
„ obtusatum. 
„ flabellifoliiun. • 
„ monanthemum. 
„ *ebeneum. 
„ reclinatum. 
„ flaccidum. 
„ bulbiferum. 
„ diversifolium. 
„ furcatum. 
„ polyodon. 
„ acutum. 
„ ‘Micliauxu. 
,, axillare. 
„ Brownii. 
Balantium culcita. 
Blechnum triangulare. 
„ occidentale. 
„ liastatum. 
Clieihmthes odora. 
„ micromera. 
,, hirta. 
„ faiinosa. 
„ elegans. 
Camptosorus *rhizophyllus. 
Oyrtonium *falcatum. 
Cystopteris *bulbifera. 
„ * tenuis. 
Cibotium glauce.scans. 
Doodia caudata. 
„ media. 
„ aspera. 
Diplazium lasiopteris. 
„ *thelypteroides. 
Davallia canariensis. 
„ pyxidata. 
Dicksonia arborescens. 
„ antarctica. 
„ squarrosa. 
Drynaria pustulata. 
„ Billardieri. 
Grammitis Billardieri. 
Leucostegia immensa. 
Lastrea decurrens. 
„ *Noveboracensis. 
,, *lancastriensis. 
„ *Goldiana. 
„ *marginalis. 
„ elongata. 
„ canariensis. 
Lastrea decomposita. 
„ hispida. 
Lomaria Patersoni. 
„ lanceolata. 
„ *Alpina. 
,, auriculata. 
„ *Chilensis. 
„ Frazeri. 
Litobrocliia vespertilionis. 
„ macilenta. __ 
Meniscium simplex. 
Nothochliena tenera. 
„ lanuginosa. 
„ vestita. 
„ distans. 
„ Marantre. 
„ Eckloniana. 
„ lffivis. 
Nipliobolus rupestris. 
„ pertusus. 
„ lingua. 
Nepbrodium unitum. 
,, molle. 
Nephrolepis tuberosa. 
Onychium japonicum. 
Onoclea *sensibilis. 
Polypodium rugulosnm. 
„ trichodes. 
„ *hexagonopterum. 
riatylorna falcata. 
„ rotundifolia. 
„ *atropurpurea. 
,, cordata. 
Pteris infra-marginalis. 
„ liastata. 
„ longifolia. 
„ serrulata. 
„ cretica. 
„ tremula. 
rdystichum falcinellum. 
„ *aerostichoides. 
,, vestitum. 
„ prolifenun. 
„ cemulum. 
„ Capense. 
Sitolobium punctilobum. 
Scolopendium Krebsii. 
Woodwardia radicans. 
„ *onocleoides. 
„ *Yirginica. 
Woodsia mollis. 
„ *obtusa. 
Lycopodium denticulatum. 
„ beloeticum. 
„ Willdenovii (of 
gardens). 
The above offer a selection of the best Ferns for a cold 
greenhouse. The degrees of cold which each will boar has 
not been ascertained, but it .is probable that none would 
sustain injury from slight frost. Tlioso marked * may be 
considered hardy.] 
HYDRANGEAS NOT BLOOMING. 
“ I shall be obliged by being informed the reason of these 
plants not flowering. They are chiefly plants from two to 
three years growth ; Were kept during the winter on the 
stage in a cool greenhouse; in the spring they were potted 
in common garden soil, and plunged in the borders in the 
open air. On many of them there is no appearance of 
bloom. —A Constant Reader.” 
[You can do nothing more with the Hydrangeas this- 
