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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
November 20. 
brood ; lay it gently aside; then replace the old hive on its 
hoard, and remove board and all to a new stand in as distant 
a part of the apiary as possible. Next adjust the piece of 
brood-comb in a large glass, and set it over the hole in the 
new hive intended for the swarm now making ; or else put 
it inside the hive itself, resting it against one of the sides on 
the board; now put this hive on the old stand, and the 
swarm is made; for it will be joined by a throng of bees from 
the old hive, as well as by all the bees which were in the 
fields at the time the old hive was removed. These, although 
somewhat disturbed at first, will soon become reconciled to 
their change of circumstances, and, finding some brood-comb 
in the empty hive, will cherish it and rear up a queen. I 
do not think any process of artificial swarming could well 
be more simple than this. 
With respect to the latter part of your correspondent’s 
interesting paper, I may say that, notwithstanding the favour¬ 
able reports of the north aspect method of wintering bees, 
to which Mr. Payne also has alluded, though I was once 
very much inclined to favour it, I am now of “ it's ” opinion, 
that more or less of a southern aspect is best for bees, if 
you can only keep off the sun effectually from them. The 
jacket used by your correspondent, if it be not too hot 
hi summer, would seem to answer the purpose very well. 
My practice is to cover my hives first with a milk-pan, and 
then with a thick hackle also, worked on a hoop which rests 
i on the rim of the pan. The straw of the hackle, moreover, 
I is made long enough to form a broadly-overhanging eave, 
which effectually shades the hive, entrance and all, from the 
! rays of the sun. Not only so —-coolness both in summer and 
winter is obtained, and all the other advantages which your 
correspondent enumerates, such as a small consumption of 
food, early breeding, and consequently early swarms, to all 
which a south aspect undoubtedly conduces. I do not 
doubt that they will do very well in a north aspect, but I 
must say I think they must do better, if well protected, in a 
southern position. Yet Mr. Payne (see The Cottage 
Gardener, vol. vi., page404) has advanced strong facts, which 
decidedly favour the location of beehives in a north aspect. 
But time will set us right on this point.—A Country Curate. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Flower Garden (C. S., 3rd Oct.).- —Your plan is most beautiful and 
original. Is it your own composition, altered a little, from part of a 
ceiling in Rome ? We have seen something like it. Of course you mean 
to put Louis Philippe (Verbena) in 4, and shade both ways right and left 
of it, but Emma would do better ; 12 would be better with Kentish Hero 
(Calceolaria) than with either Viscosissima or Amplexicaulis, both too 
bright for that situation ; 13, Diadernatum rubescens, certainly ; Touch¬ 
stone is superseded by Rouge et Noir. Both 16 should be the same sort, 
or same colour and height in two sorts, but Crimson Nosegay we never 
heard of before, Scarlet Nosegay or Pinlc Nosegay would do. Low white 
for 17, variegated Sweet Alyssum is the best. Diadernatum and Unique 
(Geraniums) will not do mixed ; nor would Diadernatum make a proper 
edge for the Unique■ Mangle’s Variegated is a good edging to Unique, 
and Golden Chain the best of all, if Unique was trained down. 
Hr. Lingard a Gardener (W. K. Wakefield). —In a memoir of the 
late Dr. Lingard, published in Bentley’s Miscellany, the following 
allusion is made to a trait in the historian’s character :—“The house in 
which Dr. Lingard lived for so many years was a most unpretending 
residence, having a small chapel behind it, a door of communication 
opening into it from the house. In his garden, which was a long strip 
taken off a small grass field, he passed much of his time. It was the 
chief recreation of his leisure to attend to his fruit trees, which were 
trained and pruned by his own hand. His garden was the burial-place 
of his favourites—hts spaniel fEtna, his cat, his tortoise, and his horse, 
which last was laid beneath the shade of a flourishing oak tree, reared 
from an acorn brought by himself from the shores of the lake of Thrasy- 
.mene, in 1817- Over the grave of /Etna, his faithful companion of many 
years, the doctor, it is said, has been seen to stand until his eyes were 
s uffused with tears, and he would exclaim, ‘ Ah, poor Etty ! ’ No 
a necdotes are trivial when, as in this instance, they display so clearly the 
n ature of a man.” 
New Quickset Fences (K.). —Young thorns, or quick, planted last 
yt ar, “ uncut, according to the modern way of planting,” are now, and 
th e sooner the better, fit to be cut down ; cut them just four inches from 
thii ground. It is in the cutting of a new or young hedge that so many 
pla nters fail in getting up a good close fence ; they imagine that, by 
lea ving a foot or more uncut, the hedge will get up faster, which is quite 
a w rong idea. October is the best time to cut your hedge for the next 
seve n yearR, and during that time let not a twig of it be touched in the 
sum mer. It is only when a thorn-hedge is up to the size required that 
it is right to clip it in June. 
Bt .ugmansia sanguinea (S. I. L.). —By all means it must be most 
caref ully protected from frost. The young wood is much more tender 
| than 1 that of a Scarlet Geranium. If your plant is not too large, and 
j you wish it preserved as it is, the best way is to take it up for the winter, 
and p lant it out again next season; but no matter how old or hard the 
wood gets, it will not stand frost. 
Frosted Geraniums (C.E.).— They must be cut close down, certainly, 
I and lo wer than the frost touched them. Tulips and Hyacinths, and all 
spring bulbs, may be planted in rustic vases now; but it is better to 
cover the soil with moss or hay, &c., until the leaves appear in the spring. 
Not but that they will stand the frost, but they come better if thus 
protected. 
Celery Growing ( A Lancashire Subscriber). —You will have seen 
what has been said upon earthing-up this vegetable at pp. 39 and 105, so 
as to protect it from grubs and decay. It would be unseasonable to enter 
now upon other particulars of Celery culture, but it shall be attended to 
in due season. Celery is an Italian name. It is the cultivated form or 
variety of the Apium gruveolens. In Turner’s Herbal it is stated that 
the wild species was known as “ Smallage or Slarche,” by the latter 
name, Marsh being probably intended, in conformity with the Latin name 
Paludupium, which means Marsh Parsley. 
Polmaise heating (S. of C .).— We have sent your letter to the party 
you mention. 
Phlox, &c. (A Young Amateur). — The Scarlet Lobelia requires pro¬ 
tection in winter. The Phlox Eclipse is hardy. You do not seem to 
understand that “ a Pillar Rose ” is one trained round a pillar. 
Greenhouse Plants in a Room (Enquirer). — Your room has a 
large window to the north-east. If you had mentioned what your plants 
were we should have been more able to tell you whether you can keep 
them there. Many half-hardy plants could be kept there even without 
artificial heat, as frost might be excluded. The aspect is so bad that we 
could scarcely recommend you to build a flue, if you have good hard- 
wooded plants, as they would suffer from want of light, unless close to 
the window. If you raised your loose frame high enough, if even on 
such earth walls as spoken of lately, and damp and frost were excluded, 
you could there keep your best plants more safely. Give us more definite 
statements, and we will endeavour further to serve you. 
Torrenia (A Constant Reader). — We presume you mean T. Asiatica. 
The treatment of this you will find in a former communication from Mr. 
Fish, so far as greenhouse culture is concerned. He has kept it well over 
the winter, in a temperature not much below 45°, at the coldest. The 
safest plan is to strike cuttings in August or September. Pot off, and 
place several of these pots under a hand-light, near the front glass, 
which will keep the plants more uniform in temperature and moisture. 
Many plants a little tender may be kept this way. Old plants kept in 
the warmest end of a greenhouse, will lose a great many of their leaves, 
and the others may get a little yellowish, but in March and April they 
will begin to grow afresh, and present such masses of bloom, as to be 
unequalled either by younger plants, or old ones kept in a stove. The 
check in winter is followed by flowering more than growing in the 
following summer. 
Cure for Vine-bleeding (Rev. R. M.). — We have found charring 
the wound with a red-hot iron, and then rubbing in a putty made of 
quick-lime and tallow, effectually to stop the bleeding. Since the above 
was written, we have most opportunely received the following from Mr. 
J. Weeks, Nurseryman, King’s Road, Chelsea:—“ Roman cement ap¬ 
plied in the powdered dry state, is an excellent remedy for staying the 
bleeding of Grape-vines, and for bruises and wounds of plants generally. 
Also for healing the incised part of milky and sappy cuttings, causing 
them rapidly to, callous, and emit roots.” We consider this a valuable 
discovery, and we can understand how the cement acts, as it has the 
property of becoming hard under water. 
White Dorking Fowls.— Parties requiring these may address a 
letter to A. B., Post-office, Ampthill. The party is an amateur. 
Concrete Walks (An Amateur). — The number you require is 
our 140th. 
Liguid Manure (E. D. B.), —This is the worst of all seasons to 
employ liquid manure. If applied to growing crops, such as Brocoli, it 
renders them more luxuriant and more liable to be destroyed by frost; 
and if you put it upon vacant ground its fertilizing qualities will be 
dissipated during the winter. On no account put it on your potato ground. 
An answer to your other query next week. 
Pig Management ( W. H. W.). —Your proffered essay on this, if 
founded on your own experience, will be very acceptable ; but your paper 
now before us we must decline inserting. It is true there is little nourish¬ 
ment in tea, but it is equally true that it “cheers without inebriating; ” 
and it is a valuable consequence that the man who is found regularly at 
his tea-table is rarely found at the table of the tap-room. 
British Pomology (H. M. Bristol). — The first division of Mr. Hogg’s 
British Pomology will be finished on the first of December. It contains 
the Apple complete in one volume. The second division will contain the 
Pear; and the third division the Peach, Nectarine, Apricot, and minor 
fruits. It will occupy altogether about twenty parts. 
Names of Apples (J. S. G.). —No. 2, Norfolk Beefing; 5, Brad- 
dick’s Nonpareil; 6, Pinner Seedling ; 9, Decayed ; 10, Yellow Ingestrie ; 
12, Broadend; 13, Northern Greening; 14, Yorkshire Greening; 15, 
Margil. The others are unknown, or are in such a state that they cannot 
be identified. 
Gladiolus, &c. (A Novice ). —It is now high time to plant your 
Gladiolus byzantinus, and you need not remove the roots again for three 
years, unless you like. Lists of everything you want, and ,more to the 
bargain, will be given in succession this winter in the Flower Garden de¬ 
partment ; and all you need is already scattered over our former volumes. 
Cochin-China Fowls.—W e have a letter to say that these may be 
obtained by addressing either M. B., Park Gate, Great Bardfield, Essex, 
or Mr. Roberts, Bank-street, Bishop’s Waltham, Hants. 
Double Yellow Hollyhock.— Any person requiring seed of this i 
may have it by enclosing a stamped envelope, with his address, to j 
Amateur, Post-office, Oxford ; and any one sending seeds of another [ 
variety (in exchange) will confer a favour. 
CEnothera Carpatica —blue or white.— Can any one say where : 
these can be purchased ? 
Bees ( R. A.). — We believe that none of the London hive-dealers 
undertake to supply bees ; and, even if they did, sending by rail at this 
time would be ruinous. The common Filbert will bear smoke as well as 
anything, and forms also a good shade. 
London: Printed by Harry Wooldridge, Winchester High-street, 
in the Parish of Saint Mary Kalendar; and Published by William 
Somerville Orr, at the Office, No. 2, Amen Corner, in the Parish of 
Christ Church, City of London.—November 20th, 1851. 
