. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. HYMENOPTERA. 459 De Candolle found that Narbonne honey owes its peculiar flavour to the fact that the bees feed upon rosemary flowers. Bees are particularly fond of alpine flowers, and delight to visit the sedums. Heather also yields much honey to bees, and beekeepers in Yorkshire carry their hives in a waggon to the moors when the heather blossoms, and return with them to their residence when it is out of flower. The hum of bees is exciting to the nervous system of som
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. HYMENOPTERA. 459 De Candolle found that Narbonne honey owes its peculiar flavour to the fact that the bees feed upon rosemary flowers. Bees are particularly fond of alpine flowers, and delight to visit the sedums. Heather also yields much honey to bees, and beekeepers in Yorkshire carry their hives in a waggon to the moors when the heather blossoms, and return with them to their residence when it is out of flower. The hum of bees is exciting to the nervous system of some persons. Gilbert White describes a boy who was a very Merops Apiaster. I have known such a case, in a gentleman who is now an officer in the army and passionately fond of music, who when a child was always in search of bees, and generally had some in paper boxes in his pocket. It is not a fitting place to consider the economy of a bee-hive, or we should be led with Shakspeare to say :— " So work the honey bees : Creatures that by a rule of nature teach The art of order to a peopled ; Shakspeare, Henry IV. At my garden the working bees (fig. 1017) kill the drones about the third week in August, when the ground around the hives is literally covered with their dead bodies. The Humble-bees {Bombits terrestis, No. i ; Bombus luceriim, No. 4, fig. 1018) are of service to us, and it is interesting to observe them open the valve of the flower of the snapdragon and enter therein. Curtis states that these bees damage the flower by piercing it instead of entering at its mouth. Al- though we have abundance of snapdragons and numerous Fig. 1018.—HumWe-bees. humble-bees, this observation has not b^en verified in my garden. In our neighbourhood there are many solitary bees, which make holes in a sand-bank, in which they deposit their Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colo
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