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(i LEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE, 



Mak. 1. 



Special Notices. 



Cold-frame cabbfig-e-i)lantssolclout for this season. 



SHOEPEG SWEET CORN, FOR SOWING BROADCAST 

 FOU FODDER. 



We liave a quantity of this, harvested in 1891. It 

 germinates from .50 to 7.5 per cent. We oflfer this, 

 while it lasts, at 50c a peck, or f 1..50 per bushel. 



POTATO ONIONS CHEAPER. 



Since our last, I have succeeded in making a pur- 

 chace so that we can furnish either the small 

 onions to plant at once, for bunching onions, or the 

 large ones to be put out to make small ones or sets, 

 at a uniform price of l»Oc per peck; $1.75 per half- 

 bushel, or *3.00 per bushel, for immediate orders. 



NUCLEUS HIVES CHEAP. 



That extractor at Northville, Mich., which we of- 

 fered in last issue, is sold; but we have at the same 

 place to dispose of, 10 double 3-frame nucleus hives. 

 Each hive contains six wired Hoffman frames, with 

 a division in the center, making two 3-frame hives 

 In one. We will sell them for $1.00 each, five for 

 $4.00, or $7.50 for the 10 complete, put up and painted 

 ready for use. 



OUR NEW CATALOGUE. 



As soon as this issue is printed we begin printing 

 the spring edition of our catalogue. It is printed 

 from electrotype plates, cast from new type, and is 

 a great improvement over former issues. There 

 are some few important clianges which will be men- 

 tioned later. We shall hardly have it completed 

 before April 1st; but as soon as done we expect to 

 send one to each reader of Gleanings as well as 

 our la.st year's customers. Vou need not, therefore, 

 send for one if you arc a subscriber or customer, 

 for you will get one as soon as finished. 



" CELERY FOR PROFIT. 



A new book, full of pictures, by our old friend 

 Greiner, has just Ijeen placed on my table. It is 

 written in the author's bright, hopeful, and intense- 

 ly happy and interesting vein ; and the illu.strations 

 all through are up to the verj' latest date. It covers 

 the ground of the new celery culture entirely; 

 discusses the latest method of irrigation, etc. When 

 I laid it down I felt like saying that there is not 

 another man in the world who can write books on 

 gardening, with the life, energy, and enthusiasm of 

 Greiner. The time has gone by for books full of 

 dry, dull, and prosy details, especially on rural sub- 

 jects. Price 30c. We can furnish it, or you can 

 get it of Burpee, the publisher. 



GARDEN SEEDS— ADVANCE IN CERTAIN KINDS. 



As usual at this season, certain things that are 

 much called for begin to be cleaned out of the mar- 

 ket, and, of cour.se, prices must advance. For in- 

 stance, we shall probably very soon lie obliged to 

 make an advance on onion-sets of all kinds— Amer- 

 ican Wonder peas, Prizetaker and Globe Danvers 

 onion seed, and there may be some others. We will 

 fill orders just as long as we possibly can; but when 

 we have to pay moi-e for the goods than the prices 

 we advertise, there will have to be an advance with- 

 out notice. I do not like advances— it makes bad 

 work, I am well aware; and we have a good many 

 times sold seeds for exactly what we paid for them, 

 rather than to annoy our customers by telling them 

 that certain things had "gone up." 



VEGETABLE-PLANTS READY iMARCH 1. 



Owing to the very severe weath.er, we have very 

 few transplapled plants of any kind, unless it is the 

 Grand Rapids lettuce. We have a splendid stock of 

 these, well rooted. The regular prices are 40c per 

 100, or $3.50 per 1000. We liave a fine stock of al- 

 most every thing direct from the seed-bed, if any 

 of our friends should want them that way. We 

 have onion-plants that would do tii put out under 

 glass, but not quite strong enough to go into the 

 open field. Asparagus-roots and strawberr.x -plants 

 we shall be ready .to ship as soon as the frost is out 

 of the firound; and appear.inces are just now that 

 it will be out in three or four days. We can ship 

 horseradish roots at any time. 



.MORE CARLOAD SHIPMENTS. 



As we go to press we are loading the second car 

 for W. K. Ball, Reno, Nev., and Inyo Co., Cal. We 

 have received an order for a carload of supplies 

 from Vickery Bros., Evansville, Ind., which will be 

 shipped soon. Wi- expect also to make up anotlier 

 carload for Southern California; and if any of oiir 

 readers in that section desire to take advantage of 

 this opportunity they should respond at once if they 

 would be in time. Write direct to us or to G. G. 

 Wickson & Co.. Los Angeles or San Francisco, Cal. 



ONE-PIECE SECTIONS. 



(3ur new machinery for making sections does not 

 niateiialize as soon as we had lioped, and it is doubts 

 ful whetlier we get it in readiness for much if any 

 woi'k this season. The sertionswe are now making 

 liy the old nietliod lire niiicli improved over former 

 yeais. and about as near peifection as it is po.s.sil3le 

 to get tliem. Tlie main thing tliat we hope to ac- 

 coniiilish by the new machinery is to cheapen the 

 (•((st of i)roduction. In the meantime we are content 

 to work on a closer margin of profit, and sell you 

 sections as cheap as you can get an equally good ar- 

 ticle elsewhere. Remember, our sections are now 

 put up in slatted boxes holding 14 bijshels, and 

 worth about any home 35 cts. each for handling or 

 storing potatoes, apples, or for a multitude of pur- 

 jioses that will suggest themselves to an economical 

 householdei'. Our i>rice on any width of the i\ sec- 

 tions will be as folk)ws. Of No. 1 cieam. we have 

 only 1% and l}i, open top and bottom; and of No. 2, 

 only 1%, open top and bottom. Other widths of these 

 grades not furnished. 



1(K) I 3.50 500 I 1000 3000 3000 5000 



No. 1 Snow-white 



No. 1 Cream 



No. 3 



B5 80 

 4 90 

 3 90 



$8 50 

 T 10 

 5 70 



$13 50 



11 35 



9 00 



STILL ANOTHER BOOK ON GARDENING, "MARKET 

 GARDENING AND FARM NOTES." 



For the first time in the world, or, at least, so far 

 as I am informed, one of the Lanilrelhs has con- 

 sented to write a book. The Landretlis, you know, 

 are the old veterans in the seed business of the 

 United States. This book, too, is well up to the 

 times, and exceedingly interesting. But although 

 it treats of greenhouses, gardening under glass, etc., 

 tliere is not a single picture in the whole work, 

 from beginning to end. Aside from this, the book 

 is full of valuable suggestions. The author agrees 

 with me fully, in regard to having glass structures 

 so made that the plants can be "turned outdoors " 

 whenever the weather will permit. See the follow- 

 ing extract from the book, p. 88: 



CARE OF HOT-BEDS. 



" Hot-beds should be covered early in the evening, 

 to retain their heal, iind in the morning uncovered 

 when the sun rests upon the glass, as every effort 

 should be made to give the plants all the sunlight 

 possible, as its rays are vivifying to a degree beyond 

 the amount of its heat, it having a chemical and 

 physiological effect beyond explanation. Even dull 

 light is better than no light, consequently it is a 

 bad plan to cover sashes with mats, except for the 

 direct purpose of keeping out cold." 



The book gave hints worth its cost before I had 

 it in mv hands 15 minutes. Price, bound in cloth, 

 $1.00. Published by the O. Judd Co. We can mail 

 it at the above price if desired. 



MAPLE SUGAR AND SYRUP. 



The season is upon us when the sweet is harvested 

 from the sugar maples. None of these delicious 

 sweets has been brought in by the producers yet; 

 but with the beautiful weather we are now having 

 it will not be many days before we shall have a 

 plentiful supply for all demands. We have some 

 good syrup of last year's production that we will 

 .sell, to close out. at 9J cts. per gal.; 5 gallons, $4.25, 

 or 10 gallons for $8.00, all put up in gallon cans, and 

 guaranteed pure maple. In fact, we do not handle 

 iiny maple products that we will not guarantee pure 

 maple, so that our readers need not fear 'to order 

 lest they get something adulterated. We will stake 

 our reputation on the purity of goods we handle. 

 Our prices for the choicest new maple syrup will 

 be. for a single gallon, $1.10; 10 gallons or more, 

 $1.00 per gallon Maple sugar we divide into three 

 grades— No. 1, at 10c per lb. ; No. 3 at 9c, and No. 3 

 at 8c. In lots of .50 lbs., V%c per lb. less. In barrel 



