. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. amml [No. 71. Vol. VI.] MARCH, 1879. [Published Monthly.] €bxtttxmlt Jtotitcs, #r. MARCH. Last yea? at this date we had to report on the special mildness of the weather, which had permitted the growth and flowering of many useful bee-plants, such as wallflowers, crocuses, Arahis Alpinus, willows, and others, which were so forward as to warrant the commencement of stimulative feeding for the increase of breeding, and the bottle and artificial-pollen basket were objects of daily attention ; but in this year of grace, so cold and miserab
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. amml [No. 71. Vol. VI.] MARCH, 1879. [Published Monthly.] €bxtttxmlt Jtotitcs, #r. MARCH. Last yea? at this date we had to report on the special mildness of the weather, which had permitted the growth and flowering of many useful bee-plants, such as wallflowers, crocuses, Arahis Alpinus, willows, and others, which were so forward as to warrant the commencement of stimulative feeding for the increase of breeding, and the bottle and artificial-pollen basket were objects of daily attention ; but in this year of grace, so cold and miserable has been the weather, that we may truly say that the earth is desolate of beauty, for not a flower of any kind can be found upon it. Yet not altogether desolate of beauty, in another sense, for while we write the earth is covered with a mantle of purest white, and every tree, shrub, and plant is decorated and bending with jewelled wreaths that delight the eye with their grace and splendour, shutting out for the time the dark side of the picture and the unwelcome feeling of regret that so much that is lovely should be so near akin to wretchedness and misery. With the break-up of the long frost which has ren- dered the winter of 1878-9 famous, we hoped that the weather would improve and give bee- keepers opportunities for examining their stocks, and preparing in some degree for the coming season, but during the whole of the month frost and rain have been the rule, and the ex- ception came this morning (Feb. 21), when in three hour^the earth was covered with nearly a foot of snow, the heaviest fall we ever re- member to have taken place in England. Considering the length of time that the bees have been shut up by frost and rain, without the possibility of natural help from a single crocus or aconite blossom, and considering that in the exercise of their instinct many stocks may have been breeding and largely consuming their stores, it cannot be too strongly impressed on bee-k
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