. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. March 80, 191(j] THE lUilTISII BEE JOURNAL. 10( folour; the brown natives are the busiest 1 have, and they fl}^ farther afield. Just now the plum trees are getting white, and 1 have not seen the trees .so thickly covered with blossom as they are this season ; how wonderful that, they should not have un- folded their flowers when those bitter north-east winds blew, 'tis the same with peaches, the pink petals did not unfold till the bitter wind had subsided, though they showed their tips for a month. Tlie hazels, of which I ^Arote in Februar
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. March 80, 191(j] THE lUilTISII BEE JOURNAL. 10( folour; the brown natives are the busiest 1 have, and they fl}^ farther afield. Just now the plum trees are getting white, and 1 have not seen the trees .so thickly covered with blossom as they are this season ; how wonderful that, they should not have un- folded their flowers when those bitter north-east winds blew, 'tis the same with peaches, the pink petals did not unfold till the bitter wind had subsided, though they showed their tips for a month. Tlie hazels, of which I ^Arote in February, have had a rough time, four-fifths of the male catkins are browned ofl' with the frost, but just the upper fifth is full of pollen, and some of the little crimson stigmas of female flowers are still to be seen. The Jargonelle pears have suffered a great deal, as they were very forward, though not actually open, but they look very brown. Crocuses are in great abundance; the speedwell on roadside banks are open, the lesser celandine opens when the sun shines; there will bo abundance of early flowers for our little friends. The lovely flowering almonds and the brown-leaved plums were most beautiful in February, in Bournemouth, and to see the pir.'k flowers with snow hanging round them is a sight not often seen in the Sunny South, yet so it was that very snowy Saturday the first week in March. I went to see a cottager friend of miner last week ; he says he has only one stock that has come safely through this scourge that is desolating the hives round here just now, still he is very hopeful of good swarms, as it is strong; he had only two box hives, of good make, but they went under. A new skep alone survives. J. J. Kettle. HELPfOL HWrS fOR NOVICES^ E1K3 By «Jl. EZ^O. QUEEN-REARPNG AND INTRODUCTION. {Continued frotn page 87.) The breeding hive is shown at Fig. 57, and takes two combs; a feeder is arranged at the side, shown by dotted lines ; it also has a telescopic
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