. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Aug. 15, 1901.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 327 will have yielded another ten frames each. Would you consider this satisfactory for a novice ?—Apis Mellifica, Bletchley, August 8. Eeplt.—The two colonies you desire to unite are placed so far apart and with so many stocks of bees between them that it would be impossible to join them together without loss of bees. If they are not weak from disease or some other mischief, we should get a driven lot of bees, with a young queen, to add to each hive. Driven bees are cheap and plentiful just now, an
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Aug. 15, 1901.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 327 will have yielded another ten frames each. Would you consider this satisfactory for a novice ?—Apis Mellifica, Bletchley, August 8. Eeplt.—The two colonies you desire to unite are placed so far apart and with so many stocks of bees between them that it would be impossible to join them together without loss of bees. If they are not weak from disease or some other mischief, we should get a driven lot of bees, with a young queen, to add to each hive. Driven bees are cheap and plentiful just now, and it would be economy in many ways to do this. If the bees are weak from disease, or the combs happen to be wrong in any way, we should destroy the stocks, as not worth the trouble of trying to winter safely. <&i\um flwm t\it Mm, Levisham, near Pickering, August 10.— Heather season just beginning—a full week earlier than last year. Prospects good. Weather grand. Honey coming in very fast to-day.—J. Rtmer. VARIETIES OF BRITISH HEATHS. The announcement made on page 280 of for July 11 has brought so many applications for copies of containing descriptions of British heaths that we deem it best to reprint the illustrations, together with authoritative botanical descrip- tions of the three kinds of Erica (commons or heaths) usually found on the hills and moor- lands of these is- lands. We place them in their order of merit as honey- producing plants, but bearing in mind that as E. tetralix (Fig. 3) grows only on damp bog-land, it cannot be regarded as of any practical value to the bee- keeper. The en- larged blossom of each variety, to- gether with illus- trations of the anther, stigma, pollina, &c, at sides of each cut, are introduced to make plainer the structural parts of the flower and its fertilisation by bees. 1. Erica, or Calluna, vulgaris (Ling), Fig. 1. —A low, straggling shrub, seldom growing. 1.—Erica, or Calluna, vulgaris. (Ling.). Pleas
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