1896 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



439 



to have me give them work, and teach them to 

 " make plants grow." Now, which is better — 

 for these well-to-do people to pay enough so 

 the boys can be kepi at work learning high- 

 pressure gardening, or give the money outright 

 to the poor widows? Why, everybody says at 

 once, " By all means, give the children work 

 by purchasing the stuflf they produce." Almost 

 evei-y winter, the organization of King's Daugh- 

 ters is obliged to give poor families assistance; 

 and quite a few times they have come to me 

 asking if I could not furnish employmt^nt to 

 some member of said family, and thus relieve 

 them from the burden of " carrying " such a 

 family through the winter. I need not tell you 

 how much better the effect is on society gener- 

 ally, to set people at work instead of giving 

 money outright. Very likely there are a few 

 people who are in debt, and who pay 20 cts. a 

 pint for strawberries when they are rare and 

 high-priced; but this is the exception and by 

 no means the rule. 



CHINESE GARDEN- SEEDS. 



One of the small boys in my Sunday-school 

 class — that is, he was a small boy some fifteen 

 or twenty years ago, when I first commenced 

 Sunday-school work (some of the readers of 

 Gleanings will perhaps remember about it) — 

 well, this small boy, when he grew up, went to 

 China as a missionary — or, at least, he holds an 

 important government ofSce connected with 

 the missionary work. Of course, we have kept 

 up more or less correspondence. He wanted 

 some of our garden-seeds, and, as a consequence, 

 astonished the Chinese and everybody else by 

 the new vegetables, melons, etc. Well, he has 

 just come back on a visit, and by way of re- 

 turning the compliment he has brought me a 

 great lot of Chinese seeds. In fact, there are so 

 many of them I have concluded to give them 

 away to the readers of Gleanings. 



In the first place, there is a kind of lettuce, 

 and I find written on the envelope Hsengtsai. 

 Then there is a cucumber called Shoo ktva. 

 Then there is a summer squash for pies, called 

 Wo kuo; still another pie squash c&UedHtu hu 

 lu. This last grows up six inches or a foot 

 high, then it must be laid down and covered 

 with earth. The Chinamen have sent us a 

 rude drawing, telling us how to manage. Last, 

 but not least, there is a red muskmelon — red 

 outside, red inside, with red seeds. Now, any- 

 body who wants them can have a few seeds for 

 trial by sending us .5 cts. to pay for wrapping 

 and postage. There is quite a lot of the cab- 

 bage and red muskmelon, but there is not very 

 much of the other things; but you shall have 

 them as long as they last. Now, you need not 

 ask me any more questions about them, for 

 this is all I know about them, until we have 

 tested them on our own grounds. 



but as we have had comparatively no rain for 

 eight or nine weeks, if we even should get one 

 now soon, I fear it will be too late. 

 Orlando, Fla., May 21. B. B. Else. 



The above verifies our own experience and 

 that of almost every one who has ever made 

 a report on the Craig. It is the best potato to 

 maintain its vigor and untiring thrifty energy 

 right through a severe drouth of any thing in 

 the whole line of potatoes. We have tried it 

 on our creek bottom, on uplands, and on poor 

 ground ; and it seems to he proof against blight, 

 bugs, and drouth, and almost every thing else. 

 At present we have some growing in the green- 

 house in a locality where they have not had a 

 drop of water for many weeks; and the great 

 strong thrifty stalks and foliage look as if the 

 potato did not even know it had been misused 

 at all. Let me explain that I sent friend E. a 

 pound of Thoroughbreds in order to have them 

 tested in Florida, asking him to return me as 

 many before planting-time up here. Those he 

 sends are veritable Thoroughbreds, but are of 

 small size. They evidently can not stand the 

 drouth as well as the New Craigs. They are, 

 however, of better quality, and very much 

 earlier. The New Craig is also the best potato 

 to keep in the spring, without sprouting, of any 

 thing we know of. At this date. May 25, New 

 Craigs that stood right close to the windows in 

 our cellars, where they got light and warm air 

 more than any other, have no sprouts longer 

 than, say, ^ inch; and the great smooth pota- 

 toes are comparatively solid and firm. 



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THE NEW CKAIG; HOW IT BEHAVES IN FLORIDA. 



Mr. Root:— A few days ago I mailed you 1 lb. 

 of Maule's Thoroughbred potato, as requested 

 when you sent me some seed potatoes. Owing 

 to the severe drouth we have had, and are still 

 having, the potato crop, and many others, have 

 been a failure. Those I sent you were the 

 largest I got from the pound of seed you sent 

 me. I have perhaps 3 or 4 lbs. of quite small 

 ones left. The Sir William did about the same, 

 or perhaps a little better. The Craig was quite 

 a surprise in the way of maintaining a good 

 color right through the drouth, while Maule's, 

 Sir William, the Blue Victor, and what is 

 known here as the Early Red (all planted at the 

 same time, in the same patch and with the 

 same fertilizer) turned yellow, and died prema- 

 turely. The Craigs are still a very fair color; 



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