1895 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



961 



Special Notices in tlie Line of Gardening, Etc. 



By A. I. Root. 



WANTED, SEED OF THE CHAPMAN HONEY-PLANT. 



Can any of our readers furnish us some of the 

 above? Every little while it is called for; but we 

 are out, and do not know where to get more. If 

 you have any to offer, please mail us a sample, tell 

 us how much you have, aud what you want for it. 



OUR NEW SEED CATALOG FOR 1896. 



All those who would like our Seed and Plant Cat- 

 alog mailed them regularly whenever we get out a 

 new one will please tell us so on a postal card, or 

 please be careful to mention it whenever you are 

 writing- us on any other matter. We are just now 

 making out a new list of the names of our customers 

 in this department. 



SHELLBARK HICKORVNUTS. 



Medina County is not only celebrated for its 

 maple-trees, but for its "shellbark" hickories as 

 well. This season there is a great quantity of fine 

 nuts. We have just secured a nice lot which we 

 can furnish at the following very low prices: Quart, 

 5c; peck, S.'Jc; half bushel, 4nc; bushel, 75c. You 

 can have these included with your express and 

 freiglit order at the above figures. Sample by mail 

 5c, if you would like to see them before ordering. 

 In localities where tiiey do not grow they are often 

 quite a treat to the children. 



A CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR YOUR WIFE. 



A beautiful cloth-bound book— title, "Domestic 

 Economy "—written by a doctor, and one who has 

 made the matter a life-study. We offer it for only 

 50 cts., although the regular price of the uook is 

 $1.00. If wanted by mail, send 8 cts more for post- 

 age. Make your wife a present of one of the.se 

 books, and it will enable her during the coming 

 year to save many times its cost. It is a l)(jok that 

 will be read clear through by almost everybody who 

 gets hold of it; and you will be surprised on almost 

 every page because you never thought of such sim- 

 ple, easy, short cuts for doing all sorts of things 

 around the home. 



GOOD BOOKS FOR A VERY LITTLE MONEY. 1 I 



nWe find we have in stock several hundred copies 

 of two of the five-cent Sunday-school books that we 

 have sold so extensively in years past. 15y some 

 means these got dropped from our price list, and 

 have not been advertised for some time. One of 

 the books is called "Silver Keys." It is an excel- 

 lent story with good wholesome morals. When first 

 brought out the book sold for $1.00. We now offer 

 it for 5 cts., postpaid, until the stock is exhausted. 

 The other one, Buny.m's Pilgrim's Progress, is very 

 fully illustrated, and oui;ht to be worth many times 

 the insignificant cost (5 cts.) in any family. Many 

 of our older readers have these books; but we think 

 there are children now in almost every household 

 who will be greatly benefited as well as interested 

 in getting one of them for a Christmas present. 

 Send right off now and we will try hard to mail it to 

 you in ample time to be tucked in a little stocking. 



HEALTH FOODS. 



In our last issue I suggested that zwieback came 

 the nearest to pure beef of any of the pure health 

 foods I had tried. I find, however, that wheat-germ 

 grits answer about as well when thoroughly cooked. 

 Another recommendation, it costs only 5 cts. per lb., 

 or 10 cts. for a 3 lb. package. Now, many of the 

 friends have found it expensive to get these health 

 foods, either by mail or express, and very few of 

 them care to buy enough to order by freight, un- 

 less, indeed, it is to go along with other goods. 

 There is already in the market an article recom- 

 mended by our Dr. Lewis, and which seems to agree 

 with me as well as the zwieback or any thing else; 

 and- that is Pettijohn's American breakfast food. 

 You want to get the packages labeled " Pettijohn's 

 Best." A 3-lb. package costs only 13 cts. at retail. 

 One thing to recommend this article is, that it is 

 already in the general market; and I believe it is 

 kept on sale by grocers pretty generally everywhere. 

 If you don't find it at your home grocery, when you 

 .are ordering other goods of us you can include it at 



the above price. You can doubtless get wholesale 

 prices by addressing the Eli Pettijohn Cereal Co., 

 Minneapolis, Minn. 



CELERY-PLANTS FOR THE NORTHERN FRIENDS. 



We have some very nice plants now. ready to take 

 up. of White Plume, Self-blanching, Golden Heart, 

 and Giant Pascal. Goml anil strong plants, put out 

 now in Florida and other southern localities, make 

 nice celery, which will be ready just the time when 

 they bring the most money in northern citie.s. Last 

 winter Mr. Andi'ew Fooshe, of Titusville, Fla., sent 

 five boxes of celery to Philadelphia, which Ijrought 

 $13.00. See p. 329, last year. Prices of i)lants, 5 cts. 

 for 10; 40 cts. per 100. If wanted by mail, add 5 cts. 

 for 10 or 35 cts. for 100, for postage. 



THAT 86-LB. COLORADO POTATO. 



Quite a good many people have been unde- 

 cided as to whether the above was a fake or a reali- 

 ty. The engraving appeared in the Scientific Amer- 

 crt/i a few weeks ago, given as a fact. Everybody 

 acquainted with potato-growing should recognize 

 the impossibility of the whole thing, notwithstand- 

 ing the photo. We investigated, and received a 

 pleas.ant letter from J. B. Swan, of Loveland, Col., 

 explaining that it was a trick in photography. He 

 did it only as a joke, to call attention to the adver- 

 tisement of his seed potatoes. He said the Scientific 

 Anic)icn)i gave the picture on its own responsibility; 

 in its issue the week after, they showed up the 

 hoax; but the admission was not nearly as promi- 

 nent as the first notice with its startling picture. 



A PREMIUM WORTH $1,50. AND GLEANINGS ONE 



YEAR, WORTH $1.00, BOTH TOGETHER FOR 



ONLY *1.00 IN MONEY. 



The conditions of the al30ve great offer are, brief- 

 ly, these: To any person who is already a subscrib- 

 er to Gleanings who will send it one year to some 

 locality or some family that has not been taking it; 

 or, in other words, any one who sends us a new 

 name, together with f 1.00, can have, postpaid, 1 lb. 

 of Maule'8 new Thoroughbied potato. Tliis potato 

 is not offered for sale anywhere to my knowledge, 

 for less than $1.50 per lb. We do this in order to get 

 our journal introduced where It has never been 

 taken before; and we are enabled to do it from the 

 fact that we have purchased (at large expense) 

 from Wm. Henry Maule ten barrels of this wonder- 

 ful new early potato. For particulars in regard to 

 the potato, see our Potato Circular, which we will 

 mail to j'ou on applicatiOH. If you do not want to 

 take the trouble to get a new name for Gleanings, 

 make some friend or relative a. present of it for one 

 year, and send rt.s the dollar. We will mail the po- 

 tatoes right along as fast as the names are received 

 —or, at least, until we have some evidence that 

 there is danger of freezing in the mails. So far we 

 have not lost a single pound. Mail matter is now so 

 carefully cared for that there is very little chance 

 of freezing unless you let them freeze while they 

 are being brought home from the postoftice. We 

 think the above makes the matter so plain that 

 there can be no further mistakes or misunderstand 

 ings. The new potato is sent as a premium to any 

 present subscril)er for getting us a new name, and 

 sending us the $1.00. Please notice, we do not offer 

 the potatoes for sale at any price. We expect to 

 plant all that is left, ourselves. Those who have 

 hot-beds and greenhouses can probably make no 

 better use of their space under glass than to 

 start these new potatoes now. We have .some grow- 

 ing nicely that are six or eight inches higli, in our 

 greenhouse across the road from where I am writ.- 

 ing. Tliere is no easier plant to grow under glass, 

 in the world, than the potato, providing you keep 

 the frost fi'om biting the foliage; and even if the 

 tops are nipped it sets them back only a little, for 

 they will start right up again. While they are 

 worth $1.50 per It)., you can make money by grow- 

 ing them in flower pots or bo.xes, in the window. 

 And here is work for the women-folks as well as 

 for the men. The potato is a very handsome -win- 

 dow-plant, and just now there is money in it. See ? 



Gleanings comes regularly. I know I should 

 miss it very much if it were not on time. Long may 

 the Home of the Honey-bee prosper. Keep on; 

 don't stop the hive question. J. H. Goe. 



Mossy Rock, Wash. 



