THE REE-KEEPEftS' REVIEW. 



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MILKWEED 1\ KILL BLOOM. 



This picture shows the blo.ssoiiis about one-fourth natural size. Tlie leaves are a deep, elossy 

 green, while the blossoms are a lilac purple, shading off into a magenta red. Later in the season 

 each bunch of blossoms is replaced by a seed pod nearly as large as a banana, and, attached to the 

 seeds when ripe is some of the softest, silkiest, fluffiest, whitest, downiest substance tdat ever grew. 

 Besides furnishing an abundance of honey, the blossoms also secrete a .sort of gluey substance that 

 sometimes catches a bee by the leg — usually the bee pulls away. 



started in at Traverse City, and .spent 

 nearly two weeks vi-siting- bee-keejiers 

 from there along" ii]i north until near 

 Charlevoix. 



A BIT OF WILDNKS.S. 



I did take one little side-trip to whicli 

 I would like to devote a few words. The 



g-rand forests of white pine with which 

 so much of this Stiite was once clothed 

 are now nearly extinct, and when I 

 heard there was still a small tract in 

 Otseg-o County, I thoug-ht, "Here is an 

 opportunity to get photog-raphs of some- 

 tliing- that in a few years will be diffi- 

 ctilt to find — forests of pine in their na- 



