. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 56 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [February 15, 1884. undertaking the sale of all the honey produced by competitors, without loss accruing to itself? I merely wish to throw out these suggestions, so pray take them for what they are worth. I cer- tainly have the feeling that the managers of the late competition were drawn into sanctioning many items in the balance-sheets which were never con- templated by the originators and manipulators of the scheme.—Georg%. Raynor, Hazeleigh Rectory, Feb. M, 1884. ' COUNTY ASSOCIATIONS. Reports of several Coun
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 56 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [February 15, 1884. undertaking the sale of all the honey produced by competitors, without loss accruing to itself? I merely wish to throw out these suggestions, so pray take them for what they are worth. I cer- tainly have the feeling that the managers of the late competition were drawn into sanctioning many items in the balance-sheets which were never con- templated by the originators and manipulators of the scheme.—Georg%. Raynor, Hazeleigh Rectory, Feb. M, 1884. ' COUNTY ASSOCIATIONS. Reports of several County Associations for the past year are to hand. We purpose giving a state- ment of the number of Members of each Association. Tbe following is the list already received :— Association. Members. Association. Members Buckinghamshire .. iW8 Kent 300 72 Leicestershire . l->7 Cornwall . 100 Norfolk .. 234 Derbyshire .. 170 Shropshire .. -r>2 Dorsetshire . . 177 Somerset . 07 East of Scotland . 144 .. 112 Essex . 186 Sussex . 301 Herefordshire . 112 Worcestershire . 170 Hertfordshire . 2:>r, Yorkshire .. 95 Huntingdonshire . 00 BEE FLOWERS. In a recent article on Bee Flowers I named a comparatively small number of useful and easily cultivated annuals and perennials, believing that it is not so much in variety as in the greater exten- sion of the special flowers known and recognised as good bee flowers. I also thought it desirable to suggest the names of those plants from which results would be obtained by sowing and planting early in tbe spring during the first year, ami in almost any little piece of garden ground. The list would be greatly extended by indicating tbe plants which are usually visited by, and are profitable to, bees ; and although I will not so much extend it by enumerating all that I have thus noted, there are still some that should not be omitted in any collection of bee flowers, and the value of some of them is in bloom- ing either at a m
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