MY METHOD OF REARING QUEENS. 153 
the larvae. Now go to the colony where the queen is you expect to breed 
from, and take a frame with larvae from twenty-four to thirty-six hours 
old. Transfer the larvae into the cups, and your frame is ready for the bees. 
After about four days more go to your queen-rearing colony and shake 
all the bees from the combs and again cut off all the natural queen cells, 
putting back the two combs as quickly as possible next the cups. Leave out 
one comb on the opposite side of the colony and proceed as before, as this 
cutting will give you royal jelly for another set of cups. Do not disturb this 
colony until the last cups have been in two days. Close watch must be kept 
on it, however, in order to be sure that no natural queen cells hatch. The 
artificial queen cells can be placed in nuclei when they are nine or ten 
days old. 
After the brood is all sealed the trouble is over with that colony, as we 
keep up the strength with frames of sealed brood which have been put in 
an upper story to be sealed, purposely for them. 
Later in the season I put fifteen and sometimes eighteen cups on one 
stick. Here is a kodak picture of our little daughter holding a frame with a 
string of fifteen mature queen cells. In the background is a portion of our 
queen rearing apiary. Every one of those cells hatched the next day after 
the picture was taken. I prepare a string of cups every two days and some- 
times two strings. The same colonies are kept buildings cells, one string 
on each side, until they commence to show a lack of interest, when they 
are given laying queens, ‘and others selected. 
Great care should be taken in selecting queens to breed from. A queen 
with all the good qualities combined is none too good. We keep a high 
priced imported queen in our yard all the time, and breed from her and 
select tested queens. We have had several imported queens, but never a 
swarm from any of them. Last summer a two-story ten frame hive would 
hardly hold the bees, but no swarm. 
Great care should also be taken in the matter of drones. As soon as pos- 
sible in spring put some drone comb in the center of your choicest colonies; 
and if. you have some which are not so choice, take the drone comb away 
if they happen to have any. 
I will gladly answer any questions that I can on this subject. 
LOCATING SHRUBS FOR EFFECT. 
FRANK H. NUTTER, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT, MINNEAPOLIS. 
Many, and indeed most, of those who enter with enthusiasm on the im- 
provement of their home grounds devote both time and money to the se- 
curing of trees for this purpose, and frequently too many of them; and 
then, deeming their task complete, “retire upon their laurels.” When, how- 
ever, the trees begin to shoot upward, and, shedding their lower branches, 
open up the grounds again to the searching winds, it is seen that without 
the co-operation of their more humble allies, the shrubs and dwarf trees, 
their mission is but poorly accomplished. 
Much more effective, even as a shelter-belt, will a group of trees become 
if its borders be extended somewhat by dwarf willows, dogwoods, thorns, 
etc., from the neighboring swamps and thickets. 
From the standpoint of scenic effect also these minor additions are of 
value, for, however attractive the interior of an open grove may be, it be- 
