. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 478 THE BUmSS BEE JOTTENAL. [Dec. 1, 1904. can sufficiently well be accomplished by the use of the Dadant hive as a brood- chamber. Those who are averse to the use of bee-zinc, and yet would not like to have brood in the extracting-combs, will, I am sure, be pleased with the results of using these hives. At time of writing (October 29) I have just finished requeening the colonies that did not swarm and did not do good work in the supers. — Edwin Bevins, in American Bee Journal. ^uxm wi %ti^\m. [3618.] Laie and Early Floicering Lime Trees.—
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 478 THE BUmSS BEE JOTTENAL. [Dec. 1, 1904. can sufficiently well be accomplished by the use of the Dadant hive as a brood- chamber. Those who are averse to the use of bee-zinc, and yet would not like to have brood in the extracting-combs, will, I am sure, be pleased with the results of using these hives. At time of writing (October 29) I have just finished requeening the colonies that did not swarm and did not do good work in the supers. — Edwin Bevins, in American Bee Journal. ^uxm wi %ti^\m. [3618.] Laie and Early Floicering Lime Trees.—I notice in your issue of Novem- ber 3 a paragraph in " Reviews of Foreign Journals " headed " Bee-keeping in included in the bee-forage of Siberia,we may mention a late-flowering variety of that tree, concerning which a lengthy and in- teresting correspondence appeared in our 'pages a few years ago. The variety referred to flowers in tine autumn several weeks later than the ordinary lime known in this country. It is named the Tilia petiolaris, and we reproduce below a fine tone-block illustration of it from a photo taken at the time by a reader, which ap- peared in , of October 12, 1899. As a result of the correspondence above re- fpiTpd to-, many trees of this Jime have been planted in tliis country. Replying to your postscript re the Kent County , we have received several similar communications expressin,g regret at the Association's present moribund condition. It appears that the difiiculty in the way of resuscitation arises from the lack of an energetic bee-keeper willing to undertake. THE LATE-FLOWERING LIME. (Tilia petiolaris.) Siberia," wherein it states that " Lime- trees are the principal source of honey, and there are- seventeen dif- ferent kinds, which blossom at different ; Could "Nemo" or any other of your readers kindly give us a list of these limes, with' approximate flowering seasons, and state if t
Size: 1871px × 1336px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury, bookdecade1870, bookpublisherlondon, booksubjectbees
