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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Mar. 3, 19C4. 



leaved out they had baeswood leaves, but in 

 no other way did they much resemble the 

 basswood I had previously seen on the banlfs 

 of the Merrimac. Later on I found 2 bass- 

 wood trees nearer my place, one on each side 

 of the street, not over 7 rods apart — one of 

 them American and the other European. I 

 am not a botanist to distinguish by their 

 blossom the difference in the two species, but 

 I can distinguish them by their other peculiar- 

 ities. The American has leaves from 3 to 3 

 times larger than the European. The branches 

 of the European are finer, and thicker to- 

 gether. From the external appearances of 

 the two varieties, and from the experiences 

 which I have had for a good many years in 

 working with timber and boards, 1 feel sure 

 that boards of the two varieties must differ 

 widely. Is there not some woodman bee- 

 keeper who has observed the difference, and 

 can give us some more information i 



John P. CoBtRN. 

 HillsboroCo., N. H., Jan. 37. 



Distance Bees Work Profitably. 



In Mr. G. M. Doolittle's article on " Locat- 

 ing Bees Among the Flowers," he doesn't say, 

 but I think it makes quite a difference, the 

 distance bees will By. If located in a valley 

 where the bloom appears first they would 

 naturally follow it farther up the mountains 

 than if they were located at the mountain 

 and had to go to the valley first, over where 

 there were no flowers yet in bloom. Another 



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