. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 64 THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. Fet. 21, 1918. ECHOES FROM THE HIVES. I thought you would he interested to hear that I have to-day (January 28) ob- served the bees carrying in pollen. It was being gathered from the winter aconites in a sheltered border of several square yards, which is now yellow with blossom. Yesterday (January 27) I also saw num- bers of bees working on the bloom of the dwarf " blind nettle," as it is called in this neighbourhood, while a few could be seen on the tiny blossoms of chickweed. After the severe weather
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 64 THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. Fet. 21, 1918. ECHOES FROM THE HIVES. I thought you would he interested to hear that I have to-day (January 28) ob- served the bees carrying in pollen. It was being gathered from the winter aconites in a sheltered border of several square yards, which is now yellow with blossom. Yesterday (January 27) I also saw num- bers of bees working on the bloom of the dwarf " blind nettle," as it is called in this neighbourhood, while a few could be seen on the tiny blossoms of chickweed. After the severe weather we have experi- enced this seems the more remarkable.— A. H. Holman, Dunton Green, Sevenoaks. AN ECHO FROM HERTS. January is nearly out, and the first month of 1918 will soon be gone for ever. What a month! Biting winds, heavy snow, and keen frost, interspersed with mild days more like mid-April weather. We bee-keepers, if we were not sure of food being right, have taken advantage of the mild spell to put on candy, this being the only work in the apiary out- doors. Our Dorset friend has been writing of the beauties of his neighbourhood. ] know something of those parts, and heartily endorse his views. Here in Herts we are not so favoured, still we have our compensations. During the late snows we lived in fairyland. The little copse be- side my house was a dream of loveliness, every twig being covered with glittering beauty. Being sheltered here from the north and east, things are forward with me. The cat- kins lengthening very fast, the first snow- drops opened on the 21st, and the coloured primroses show colour in the buds. In the hedgerow honeysuckle (earliest of creepers) is breaking into leaf, and many hedgeside flowerets are peeping for better days; so we are not so far behind Dorset. Then the birds, oh, what a concert! Black- bird, thrush, wren and robin, all trying to outvie one another. The bees, too, during the last few days, have been flying strongly. Here the note
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