. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. H YMEN OP TERA. 461. forms a striking contrast with that of the honey bee, which is made of wax instead of paper, and the cells of which are arranged verti- cally in tiers two cells thick. Dr. Ormerod takes a great delight in wasps, which have been his companions for many years. I have copied one of his figures of the common wasp's nest (fig. 1020), in preference to giving a figure from one of the specimens in my own collection. The late Dr. Henslow, the learned Profess
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. H YMEN OP TERA. 461. forms a striking contrast with that of the honey bee, which is made of wax instead of paper, and the cells of which are arranged verti- cally in tiers two cells thick. Dr. Ormerod takes a great delight in wasps, which have been his companions for many years. I have copied one of his figures of the common wasp's nest (fig. 1020), in preference to giving a figure from one of the specimens in my own collection. The late Dr. Henslow, the learned Professor of Botany at Cambridge, also delighted in the observation of these creatures, and forwarded many remarkable . __ - _. Fig. 1020.—Wasp's Nest. specimens to the Kew Museum. Wasps, like all other hymenopterous insects, sting with an apparatus placed at the tail (fig. 1019, d, e, /), while two-winged insects bite with an apparatus situated at the mouth (fig. 1019, c). When any person is stung by a wasp, we at once apply a drop or two of harts- horn ; this is an infallible remedy, which immediately does its work. For this reason no gardener should be without a bottle of ammonia, or, as it is popularly called, hartshorn, during the fruit season. Ammonia is equally effective if applied immediately to the stings of bees, or to the bites of adders. Wasps sometimes attack the bee- hives, which has been noticed by Shakspeare:— " Injurious wasps ! to feed on such •sweet honey, And kill the bees, that yield it, with your ; Hornets (Vespa crabro) visit my garden, but I do not know where their nest is situated. They construct their nests in horizontal tiers, like wasps, and generally in the holes of trees. Hornets are larger, heavier, and more sluggish than wasps, and not so spiteful. On one occasion we had a hornet's nest in the eaves of a house in which we lived, but not a single inmate was stung; on another occasion a nest existed opposite the front door ; and Dr.
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