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all the hardy evergreens this applies most to the Magnolia, 
on account of its very thick leaves and fleshy roots; but 
the gardener is wrong about watering it. If the soil is 
drained, rain, river, or pond water should be given it in 
abundance from now to the end of August as regularly as if 
it were in a pot, say twice a week. One-lialf of the garden¬ 
ing world is quite mad about liquid manure. Nine times 
out of ten, liquid manure is just as poisonous in the hands 
of amateurs as liquid arsenic or liquid strychnine.] 
PROPAGATINC THE DOUBLE-BLOSSOMED WOOD 
ANEMONE. 
“ Will you have the kindness to inform me how best to 
cultivate, as a border flower, and to propagate the Anemone 
nemorosa, or double-blossomed white Wood Anemone?”— 
S. C. A. 
[Buy a bunch or a potful of it, shake half the soil from the 
ball if it is in a pot, and plant it in front of a flower border, 
partly under the shade of a Rose or some American plant, as 
Rhododendron, Azalea, or Daphne, where it will soon grow 
away, and in peat or in sandy loam, spread out into a large 
patch. After that, never disturb it for a lifetime except in 
April, when it is just coming through the ground, when you 
can clear away the soil round the edges of a patch down to 
the roots, so as to get little pieces from the outsides of the 
'patch for increase. The partial shade of a bush is not 
absolutely necessary; but then it is more safe from garden 
tools and from mere tools of gardeners when it is out in 
leaf. The same treatment will do for Anemone Apennina , 
the blue one, and A. ranunculoides , the yellow one. These 
three and the Wood Sorrel, Oxalis acetocella , or true “Sham¬ 
rock,” ought to go together for spring flowers in every garden 
in the three kingdoms.] 
TREATMENT OE A SWARM IN A NUTT’S HIVE. 
“ I hived a swarm of bees on the 16th of May. on Nutt's 
collateral system, which appears very strong, there being as 
much as would fill a couple of quarts. However, but a com¬ 
paratively small number appear to show themselves out of 
doors, although the first three or four days were very warm 
and fine. The rest are all clustered together on the top and 
side. Are the queen and workers likely to be all right, or is 
it the custom of the drones to keep thus together ? Some 
few return with their legs laden with yellow pollen, while 
the floor is strewn with thin pieces of wax, which appear like 
crystals of sugar. I should imagine this shows they are at 
work, though I see no appearance of comb, having the ad¬ 
vantage of window's to see what they are about. Would it 
be advisable to feed them ? If I did it in the bee-glass, 
which I have not yet placed on the hive, would it not cause 
them to leave the combs they are now, or should be, build¬ 
ing, and commence them at the top of the glass ? The 
morning after I hived them I placed a tumblerful of sugar 
and ale on the floor-board, which was empty two hours 
after.” — Highfield. 
[Your newly-hived swarm appears to be going on very 
well, and requires only to be let alone. The clustering at 
the top shows that comb building is making progress. Feed¬ 
ing is not needed in fine weather. Confine the bees to one 
box, and it will be quite time enough to place the glass on 
the top when the combs are worked down to the floor. The 
weather then must be the guide. The less use you make of 
the ventilators the better; still better if you throw them 
away altogether.] 
VINES FAILING. 
“ I had a good show, nearly every shoot had a bunch on 
it; three Vines out of eight have only one or two upon 
them, while others are doing well. Two of them are over 
the furnace, and the other near the door. They are planted 
inside, and I believe work under the flue and path; likewise 
a border outside, a flat, cold border, and I find they are deep 
in it, which I am inclined to think is the cause of failure; 
likewise it may be too hot against the flue. They have been 
planted about nine years. Last year I had a very good crop, 
and they did well in colouring.”—J. W., Maidenhead. 
[The difficulty in deciding arises from the fact that the 
Vines did well last year, and that some out of the lot only 
fail. We do not think they would be at all injuriously 
affected by the roots passing under the flue, as heat ascends. 
The cold, flat border is another affair; but then how is it 
that a few Vines only are affected ? Had they not over¬ 
borne last season ? At the same time we have found some 
Vines injured and others uninjured in the same border. 
If you. contemplate raising the roots we would advise 
your doing so in September. See an article lately on this 
subject.] 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Cinerarias (X. Y. Z.). —Nos. 1 , 2 , and 3 are very handsome, well 
formed, and of good substance, but they and the rest of your seedlings 
are not nearly large enough for London in the present season. 
Heating by Hot Water. — J. D. D., Allerton Tower, wishes that 
some of the gardeners where Messrs. Weeks and Co.’s boiler and Mr. 
Thomson’s retort boiler have been employed would publish the results, 
as what has been accomplished with t$iem, consumption of fuel, &c. 
Dahlia Shoots ( Frenchman). —As you do not wish to propagate 
your Dahlias leave all the shoots on the roots, and the roots undivided. 
Those which are under glass must be gradually hardened before being 
planted out in the borders. 
Ants (J. Robinson). —We have repeatedly stated that guano or the 
ammoniacal liquor of the gas works put over their nest kills and drives 
them away. 
Tally ( Abel Nott ).—The name on your tally is intended for Press's 
Eclipse Camellia. 
Book on the Horse ( F. W. S.). —That entitled “The Horse,” 
written by Mr. Youatt, and published by the Society for the Diffusion 
of Useful Knowledge. 
Cherries and Apricots in Orchard House (J. Hackness ).— 
These both do very well in pots with us, therefore the cause of the 
bloom dropping must be either want of impregnation or the roots 
being defective. We give our trees good turfy loam, and water once a 
week with liquid manure ; give air abundantly, and keep it very moist 
by watering the path daily whilst the blossom is open. 
Calceolarias (W. IV.).—Many thanks for your Aurea floribunda. 
We shall expect to get it at the Chiswick Show. 
Acacia shedding its Leaves (H. H.). —Some of the Acacias 
throw off many of their leaves just as Bays, Laurels, and Hollies do in 
summer. There will soon be healthy ones if the plant is all right. 
Want of water, or too much of it, will cause your buds to wither, 
especially when subjected to a sudden change of temperature. We 
find all liquid manure good when rightly applied. See on watering 
what Mr. Fish has said lately to window gardeners. 
Vermilion Brilliant Tulip (L.).— It is scarlet crimson, but 
there is a little yellow at the bottom of the petals. 
Names of Plants (M., Wakefield). —No. 1 . Cerastium dioicuin f 
No. 2 . Cerastium tornentosum. (A Subscriber). —The pea-blossomed 
flower is Ononis rotundifolia, or round-leaved Rest Harrow ; the other 
is Silene pendula, pendulous Catchfly. (E. S.).~ Your Fern is Cyr- 
tomium falcatum. 
POULTRY SHOWS. 
June 3rd, 4th, and 5th. Bath and West of England. Sec., Mr. 
John Kingsbury, 10 , Hammet Street, Taunton. Entries close the 1st 
of May. 
June 26 th. Exeter. Sec., T. W. Gray, Esq., Queen Street, Exeter. 
July 8 th, 9 th, and 10 th, 1857. Leamington. Sec., Thomas Grove. 
July 9th. Prescot. Sec., J. F. Ollard. 
July 28th, 29 th, and 30th. Sheffield, South Yorkshire, and 
North Derbyshire. Sec., William Henry Dawson, Fig Tree 
Lane, Sheffield. 
August 8 th, 10 th, 11 th, and 12 th. Crystal Palace. Sec., W. 
Houghton. 
August 19 . Bridlington. Sec., Mr. Thomas Cape. 
September 2 nd. Dewsbury. Sec., Harrison Brooke, Esq. 
September 7 th, 8 th, 9 th, 10 th. Gloucester. Sec., Mr. H. Churchill, 
King’s Head Hotel. 
October 1st and 2nd. Worcester. 
November 30th, and December 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Birmingham. 
Sec., John Morgan. Entries close the 2nd of November. 
December 16 th and 17 th. Nottinghamshire. Entries close No¬ 
vember 18th. Hon. Sec., Mr. R. Hawksley, jun., Southwell. 
December 30th and 31st. Burnley and East Lancashire. 
Entries close December 1st. Secs., Angus Sutherland and Ralph 
Landless. 
January 9 th, 11th, 12th, and 13th, 1858. Crystal Palace. 
January 19th, 20th, 21st, and 22nd, 1858. Nottingham Central. 
Sec., Mr. Etherington, jun., Notintone Place, Sneinton, near Notting¬ 
ham. 
N.B.— Secretaries will oblige us by sending early copies of their lists. 
