. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 222 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [May 7, 1891. power, bursting with a sharp report and scatter- ing the seeds far away with considerable force. I should like to know if others have seen bees •working the nasturtium. They may do where other flowers are scarce, for it is well known that in some places the hawthorn is well worked, while in others the honey-bee passes it by and hurries on to the sycamore, fruit-tree blossom, or some other greater attraction. It is a fact that neither of these two flowers are worked by the bees of—Lordswood,
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 222 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [May 7, 1891. power, bursting with a sharp report and scatter- ing the seeds far away with considerable force. I should like to know if others have seen bees •working the nasturtium. They may do where other flowers are scarce, for it is well known that in some places the hawthorn is well worked, while in others the honey-bee passes it by and hurries on to the sycamore, fruit-tree blossom, or some other greater attraction. It is a fact that neither of these two flowers are worked by the bees of—Lordswood, SECTION-FOLDING. [638.] ' The time of the siDging of birds is come ;' and so the time for the folding of sec- tions is at hand. For the benefit of other readers of the , I send description of 'folder' made and used by myself, so that any who are of a mechanical turn may construct one for themselves. It is after the -style of the iron press sold by Mr. Meadows, of Syston. A refe- rence to sketch (Fig. 1) will show its COnstruc-. Hg. 1. tion, while the trouble of making it will be far outweighed by its usefulness and the saving of time, the sections being folded in a second, square and true, by simply uplifting the handle of eccentric lever. Fig. 2 is drawn on a 1^-inch scale, , \\ inch to the foot, so that the size of the several. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London
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