. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. u Jmttmal, [No. 59. Vol. V.] MARCH, 1878. [Published Monthly.] (Bbitnxml, Jloftas, #t. MARCH. The past month of February has been so unusually mild that in our neighbourhood the spring flowers have appeared long before their usual time, and bees have been gathering merrily. Wallflowers are their chief source of supply, and regarding their extreme earliness we offer, by way of a hint, the suggestion that it may be partly due to their being plants from seed self-sown in the autumn of 1876, and transplanted in the spring of 1877. They do
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. u Jmttmal, [No. 59. Vol. V.] MARCH, 1878. [Published Monthly.] (Bbitnxml, Jloftas, #t. MARCH. The past month of February has been so unusually mild that in our neighbourhood the spring flowers have appeared long before their usual time, and bees have been gathering merrily. Wallflowers are their chief source of supply, and regarding their extreme earliness we offer, by way of a hint, the suggestion that it may be partly due to their being plants from seed self-sown in the autumn of 1876, and transplanted in the spring of 1877. They do not acquire 'a pleasing habit' during their long period of summer growth, but, in comparatively mild weather, abundance of flowers will be comeatable at Christmas, and they, with crocuses and the blossoms of shrubs and trees, will form a good early source of supply for bees. We have mended our plantation of palm-bearing willows, some of which are already in blossom, but not sufficiently to be a source of great attraction to the bees who, however, manage to find a scant supply of natural pollen, which gives a hint that artificial pollen may be offered. In offering directions for the management of bees, it should always be remembered that we are located to the fouth of England about nine miles westward of London, and probably our bee flora present themselves, if not quite as early as in the more southern and western dis- tricts of England, at least sufficiently early to indicate in a general way what should be done as the season advances. Effects of the. Mild Weather.—Mrs. Tupper, in her admirable essayon'Bee-keeping,' quoted on pages 204 and 205 of the British Bee Journal for March 1876, says of bees, and wintering them, ' In the coldest weather they remain in a semi-torpid state, and use but little honey.' Yet a few lines further on she says, ' Under any circumstances it has been proved that bees consume much less honey when pro- tected in winter,' and she gives statistics t
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