1890 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



39 



Contents of this Number. 



Adulterated Honey 60 



Alfalfa in Kansas 67 



Ants' Nests 66 



Artificial Honey M 



Bain's Old Fraud 54 



Hasswood for Sections 63 



Bee- hunting 55 



Bee-stings 60 



Bee-yards, Sodded or Not 62 



Bottom-board, Reversible. . .50 



Bristol Hive 15 



Carnlolan Apiary 47 



Cellar. Too Warm 65 



Chaff Hive. Cellar Winter's 52 



Christian Science 55, 75 



Colony in Open Air 72 



Covei-s, Flat, Cleated . . (Q.B.) .68 



Digested Nectar 53 



Extractors, Coggshall on — 58 



Extractors, Reversible 57 



Five-cent Packages 64 



Florida 59 



Foundation, Flat-bottom 64 



Foundation on Cheese Cloth. 61 



(rrinding at Home 50 



Honey, Care of 48 



Honey-dew, Pine 51 



Japanese Buckwheat 63 



Lending Gleanings 64 



Lobelia Honey 62 



Matted-hair Packing 72 



Michigan Convention 63 



Nomenclature, Apicultural..56 



Orange Honey 59 



Pine Honey-dew 51 



Pine-tree Honey 59 



Queens. Taylor's Method. . . .63 



Rambler Photographing 47 



Righteousness, Our Homes 72 



Rheumatism and Stings 66 



Silo Book— Cook's 75 



Soured Honey 66 



Sweet Clover 56 



Terms, Use of 67 



Toi>-bars, Thick 43, 45 



Uncapping-bowl 71 



Warm Weather 65,66 



Water, Bad Well 49 



Weighing Frames 71 



Wide Top-bars 43, 45 



Wiley's Silver Lining 61 



Winter of 1889 69 



Carniolan Queens ^^° Bees a Specialty. 



The co-partnership of Andrews iV Lockhart is 

 now closed, and the senior partner (who has bred 

 those queens and bees for six years) will breed 

 queens and bees from imported mothers, in the 

 season of 1800, and will sell, the Ist of June, untest- 

 ed at ffl.OO; one-half dozen at $5.00; one dozen at 

 $9.00. The tested, the 15th of June, $3.00; one-half 

 dozen, 16th of June, $10.00. All queens above the 

 untested will be put into one class, and sold as 

 tested at $3.00, of next year's breeding. I expect to 

 have queens of last year's breeding, which 1 will 

 sell on the 10th of May, tested, $3.50; one-half 

 dozen, $13.00. Send for circular. 

 l-6db John Andrews, 



Pattens Mills, Wash. Co., N. Y. 



For Sale.— For cash, cheap, or trade for a good 

 piece of land, from 50 to 200 colonies of Italian bees 

 in the Quinby hive, and a few in Root's Simplicity. 

 Too much work, with other business. 

 3tfdb G. Hakseim, Secor, Woodford Co., Ills. 



SEEDS FOR THE GREENHOUSE, GARDEN, AND FARM. 



As a number of the friends in the South and Southern California are now sending in 

 their orders for seeds, it reminds us that it is time to indicate our preferences, and to let 

 j'ou know what we feel like advising and offering for sale during 1890. 



PRICE 5 CTS. PER PAPER; 10 PAPERS, 40 CTS.; 100 PAPERS, $3.50. 



Seeds of new or rare vegetables and novelties, we include at the uniform price of 5 cents 

 per package; but, of course, we are obliged to put a smaller number of seeds into such packages. 

 This will be noticed with the Bush Lima Bean and Snowball Uauliflower, etc. Now, these 

 5-ct. papers are all sent by mail postpaid; but wJien you order seeds by the oz., or i^B., you must 

 pay 9 cts. extra for postage and packing on each and every pound of seeds ordered. Peas and 

 oedns by the pint and quart, must also have 8c per pint, or 15c per quart, added for postage ; on 

 corn, add 12c per qt. for postage. One-fourth oz., lb., or peck wul be sold at oz., lb., or peck rates. 



ASPARAGUS. 

 Asparagus, Palmetto. Oz. 10c; lb. $1.50. 



We have given this new variety a trial beside the Colossal, 

 and it is certainly a stronger and more robust plant. 



Asparagus Roots. Palmetto, 10 for 10c; 75c per 

 100; $6.00 per 1000. By mail, add 5c for 10, or 20c 

 per 100. 



BEANS. 



Ktdney Wax. V, pt. 10; pk. $1.50. 



This is an improvement on the ordinaiT- Golden Wax Bean, 

 in giving us larger pods, more perfectly free from rust; and 

 last, but not least, if you can not sell all of them tor snap-short 

 beans you have a shell bean that is nearly equal in size and 

 quality to the larger white kidney bean ; and if you do not 

 sell them all shelled, you have a good crop of dry, nearly all 

 white, kidney beans. We consider it quite an acquisition. 



White Kidney, liarge. Pt. 10c; pk. $1.00. Bu., 

 $3.35. 



One of the best to use shelled, when green or ripe. We sell 

 bushels of these at 10c a pint, shelled green. We market 

 them in new pint strawberry-boxes. 



POLE BEANS. 



Extra-Early liinia Beans. These are fully 

 equal to the old lima beans, and are fully as pro- 

 ductive, and from ten days to two weeks earlier. 

 We consider it an acquisition. Price 20c per pint, 

 or $3.50 a peck. 



King of til e Oarden Lima. Vi pt. 10c; qt. 30c; 

 peck, $3.(K1. 



These are fully as good as the common lima, and the pods 

 are considerably larger, saving time in picking and shelling, 

 as well as increasing the .yield. We get 15 cents per pint for 

 these, when green, siielled. See White Kidney bean above. 



Henderson's Nevir Busli Lima Bean. Yi pt. 



40c; qt., *1.00; peck, $6.50. (Dwarf Lima, or Caro- 

 lina.) 



In oui- catalogue tor 1889 we pronounced this the most im- 

 portant novelty for 1889. It is a genuine bush lima bean; 

 t)ut I do not see how a seedsman can conscientiously adver- 

 tise it without mentioning that it is much smaller than the 

 ordinary nole lima bean. In every other respect it is fully 

 equal to tne pole li mas, and may prove a valuable acquisi- 

 tion to many who can not well go to the time and expense of 

 1>roviding poles. It is exceedingly prolific, each stalk or stem 

 )earing from .')0 to 100 pods, under good cultivation. The ex- 

 tra trouble of pi<'king and shelling, in order to get them 

 ready for tlie table, is the only drawback. We have them 

 put up in .') ( cut packages icjutaining 10 beans. 



Allot inir heans will he furnished in o-cent packages ; 

 but where they are to go by mail, postpaid, of course 



the above packages will have to he quite smaU. If 

 wanted by mail, add Sc per pt. or 15c per qt. for postage. 



BEETS. 

 Et-llpse. Oz. 5c; lb. 50c. 



These have given us the best satisfaction of any thing 

 we ever raised in the way of beets. They are a very quick 

 grower, of excellent quality, and the appearance of the 

 bright smooth scarlet bulbs is fully equal to any thing that 

 has been pictured in the colored plates of our catalogues. 

 In order to get a fancy price for them, start them in the 

 greenhouse, and transplant when of the size of peas, or a 

 little larger. They bear transplanting well, and are exceed- 

 ingly hardy. Seed is of our own raising from selected roots. 



Pblladelpliia Turnip. Oz. 5c; lb. 50c. 



This is a little later and larger than the above, and is a nov- 

 elty because of its alternate rings of dark and light pink. 

 Lane's Improved Sugar. Oz. 5c; lb. 35c. 



The best varietv for stock-feeding. It showed a larger per 

 cent of sugar at the Experiment Station than any other an- 

 alyzed. It is so sweet, that, when small, they are nice to eat 

 raw. Has yielded as high as 20 tons to the acre. 



Long Red ITfangel. Oz. 5c; lb. 30c; 10 lbs. $2.50. 



Yields enormously, but not so sweet as Lane's improved. 

 Seed is of our own raising, from selected roots 



CABBAGE. 



Select, Very Early Jersey Wakefield. Stock 

 ><ecd. Oz. 30c; lb. $3.50. 



Our cabbage seed this year is raised by H. A. March, Fidalgo 

 Bay, near Puget Sound. Washington Territoi-y. Thousands 

 of sample pat-kages were sent out by us in 1888, and friend 

 March's seeds ought to be pretty well known. The Early 

 Jersey Wakefleld, of the best selected strain, is fully as 

 early as any other cabbage known, and greatly superior in 

 quality. We have sold single heads at retail at 30c each, 

 raised from plants started in the greenhouse in February. 



Wlnnlngstadt. Oz. 10c; lb. $1.50. 



Much like the Jersey Wakefield, but later and larger. The 

 heads are round, anil some of them are so hard as to seem al- 

 most like bullets Our customers, many of them. greatl.v 

 prefer these and Hi-nderson's Early Summer cabbage to the 

 later flat cabbages. 



Louisville Druniliead. Oz. 10c; lb. $1.50. 



One of the most uniform and surest-heading sorts tried at 

 the Ohio Experiment Station. It is a little earlier than Flat 

 Dutch, hence may be planted later; just tlje kind to plant 

 after early crops. 



Fottler's Brunswick. Oz. 30c; lb. $3.60. 



This is one of the old staple vjjrieties. and is perhaps planted 

 as extensively as an v one variety, from medium to late cab- 

 bage. Our seed was raised by H. A. March, the same as the 

 Early Jersey Wakefield, and our entire stock is stock seed; 

 that is, it is from the very best pEAps fhat could be selected 

 oi\p of a flejd of sever,\l .\crbs. 



