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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, May 18, 1858. 
with the greatest ease, by striking the hive a sharp blow with 
the hand, when the bees will be loosened and fall in a heap on 
the ground; the hive containing the stock may then be placed 
over them, resting on a stone, or stick, previously laid on the 
ground to wedge up the side, and give the bees entrance ; the 
two families will coalesce, work vigorously, and a large honey 
harvest will probably result. 
With storifying hives, such as my own Bar and Slide, or the 
Stewarton, the proceeding is much easier; the swarm is hived 
in a single box ; this is placed over the weak stock to be 
strengthened, and by pulling out the slides the communication 
is at once made. A single puff of smoke ensuring the'pacific 
union of the families. 
My object in writing this letter, is to suggest to those bee¬ 
keepers, who have weak stocks, the great advantage of adding a 
swarm to them, instead of following the usual practice of 
destroying the stock, or allowing it to die out, and obtaining 
the few pounds of honey it contains. 
When a swarm is put into a hive containing comb and a 
few pounds of honey, the bees composing it go to work with 
great vigour, and the queen has a supply of cells to lay in; 
the result is, that the honey, not having to be consumed by the 
bees in the secretion of w T ax, is accumulated ; and if the hive 
is a storifying one, a super placed above, when the bees are 
well at work, and room is wanted, is often filled with twenty 
to thirty pounds of virgin honey, still leaving enough in the 
stock hive below to supply the winter demand. 
The bee-keeper must exercise his judgment in proportioning 
the size of the super to the strength and activity of the stock, 
and the productiveness of the season and district. 
Of course, this method of strengthening a stock cannot be 
advantageously used with the common straw skeps, or bell¬ 
shaped hives, as there is no means of giving room for the forma¬ 
tion of virgin comb ; the hive must be one capable of being 
supered. Another point, also, must be particularly noticed, 
namely, that the stock to wdiicli the swarm is added is in a 
wholesome condition, free from the eggs, or grubs, of the wax 
moth, and not in a mouldy state, or containing numerous dead 
young bees in the cells.—W. B. Tegetmeier, Musivell Hill. 
CLAYTONIA PERFOLIATA POUND WILD IN 
ENGLAND. 
Last year I forwarded you a specimen of a plant from a 
hedge-bank in this neighbourhood. You thought it a foreigner, 
Claytonia perfoliata , and desired another blooming specimen 
next spring. This specimen is now enclosed ; the plant grows 
quite freely in its old place; some patches appearing too large 
for this year’s production. We are going to raise some of the 
seeds in heat, they being now ripe in the lower vessels, while 
the flowers are thick above. The question is, what is the 
name of the plant ?—E. A. Copland, Belle field , Chelmsford. 
[This is, certainly, Claytonia perfoliata, and is such a re¬ 
markable plant, that when once well known, one can never 
mistake it for anything else. Like nearly all other annuals, 
its finest plants are always produced from self-sown seeds, that 
progress in their own natural way. It has, hitherto, been con¬ 
sidered a native of North America, and a good portrait of it 
is in the “ Botanical Magazine,” t. 1336. Claytonia alsinoides 
is also a new plant in our English Elora, being discovered by 
Sir Joseph Paxton, in a plantation near Chatsworth Park. 
He was perfectly satisfied as to its not being likely to be the 
out-cast from the garden. If Claytonia perfoliata is to be 
found wild, where our correspondent describes, this may form 
another addition to our English Flora.] 
Death of Mb. GeoeGe McE wen.— This event, we much 
regret to record, took place on the 10th instant. Consumption 
completed its slow work on that day. His age was only 
thirty-eight years. He was buried at Arundel, where he had 
long served the Duke of Norfolk’s father, and had reaped no 
small fame for his success in fruit culture. From Arundel 
Castle he passed to be gardener to E. W. Beaumont, Esq., at 
Bretton Hall; and, lastly, to be manager of the Horticultural 
Society’s Chiswick Garden. Whilst gardener to Mr. Beau¬ 
mont, he published, in 1856, his practical little work, “ The 
Culture and Forcing of the Strawberry.” lie was in office at 
Chiswick little more than twelve months, having entered upon 
the management of the Garden in February of last year. In 
that short time he made many important changes and improve¬ 
ments, and we hope the Committee will select, as his suc¬ 
cessor, a man equally skilled, and equally superior to undue 
influence. 
HAEDY PLANTS BLOOMING OUT OE DOOES, 
IN APEIL, IN THE EOYAL GAEDENS, 
KEW. 
Ranitncttlacea. —Ranunculus millefoliatus, R. gramineus, 
R. amplexicaulis ; Anemone apennina, A. hortensis, A. Pulsa¬ 
tilla, A. nemorosa, A. nemorosa-pleno ; Adonis vernalis. 
Papaveracea. — Sanguinaria Canadensis, S. Canadensis 
grandiflora; Stylophorum diphyllum; Chelidonium querci- 
folium, C. majus, C. majus pleno. 
Fumariacea. —Dielytra spectabilis, D. formosa, D. Cana¬ 
densis, D. eximia; Corydalis nobilis, C. tuberosa, C. tuberosa 
albida. 
Crucifer A. —Aubrietia erubescens ; Iberis saxatilis; Alys- 
sum saxatile, A. saxatile Gemonense ; Scliiwereckia podolica; 
Draba hirta. 
Leguminosa. — Coronilla Emerus ; Wistaria sinensis ; 
Orobus tuberosus. 
Magnoliaceje. —Magnolia conspicua,M. purpurea; Illicium 
eligiosum. 
Ericacea. — Arbutus Andrachne, A. procerus; Arcto- 
straphylos puugens. 
Hydrophyllacea. —Nemophila atomaria, N. insignis. 
Composite.’ —Doronicum Caucasicum, D. Austriacum, D. 
macrophyllum; Ilologymne glabrata. 
Boraginacea. —Anchusa sempervirens ; Symphytum Cau¬ 
casicum ; Pulmonaria mollis. 
Philadelphacea.— Deutzia gracilis. 
Grossulariacea.— Ribes aureum, R. parviflorum. 
Rosacea:. —Waldsteinia trifoliata, W. geoides; Rubus 
spectabilis. 
Pomace a:.— Pyrus spectabilis ; Amelanchier botryapium. 
Drupacea.— Amygdalus nanus, A. nana alba. 
Liliacea. —Fritillaria imperialis, F.imperialis lutea, F.lati- 
folia, F. Persica ; Tulipa sylvestris, T. Garnerianus. 
Aspiiodelea. —Scilia amoena; Muscaria moschata; Orni- 
thogaluin nutans, O. Byzantium, O. fimbriatum. 
Amaryllidea. —Leucojum sestivum, L. pulcliellum; Nar¬ 
cissus aurantius, N. bicolor, N. polyanthus, N. galanthifolius, 
N. poeticus, N. poeticus angustifolius, N. papyraceus ; Queltia 
odora, Q. foetida. 
Melanthacea. —Uvularia puberula. 
PARAGRAPHS FROM MY POCKET-BOOK. 
The Crystal Palace. —A spot, invested with so much 
interest as the Crystal Palace, ought to yield (as it has indeed j 
done) much to inspire the pen of those who seek and find a j 
genuine source of pleasure, in propagating a taste from the 
“ true and beautiful ” in every department of science and 
art, as the occasional notices in your columns, from the dili¬ 
gent pen of a ready writer, upon the horti or flori-cultural 
features of this place evince, and by the awakening of a pretty : 
general interest respecting them, which is not, we think, mis¬ 
placed. For step by step, it seems, the gardens of the Crystal 
Palace have acquired a name and standing in the horticultural 
world that has seldom been enjoyed by any others so near the 
metropolis ; and, indeed, a better authority than your un¬ 
worthy correspondent has stated, in reference to them, “ we 
have no better examples of flower gardening in this country; ” 
and this sentence alone attaches to them an importance which 
we have no intention of lessening. Yery little, indeed, is left, 
in connection with these grounds, that has not already been 
fully dwelt upon in previous notices. One subject alone, we 
believe, remains unmentioned; for, on reference to that repo¬ 
sitory of facts and scraps, that commonly occupies an other¬ 
wise empty pocket, we find a few notes that we shall make no 
apology for intruding. These apply chiefly to certain plants 
which, we conceive, deserve to be brought into more general 
service, as permanent edging plants. 
