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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 



worker eggs. Large prime swarms do not, 

 as a general rule, start queen-cells within a 

 week. I am inclined to think the queen of 

 that colony will be superseded before a 

 great while. Yes, a queen has been seen 

 depositing an egg in a queen-cell.— The dis- 

 cussion in regard to Jones and Brown em- 

 phasizes the fact that partnerships, or bees 

 on shares, seem to be, at the best, compli- 

 cated and unnecessary. Better buy or sell 

 outright. 



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SOME GLIMPSES OP THE HOME OF 

 T. B. TEERY, HUDSON, OHIO. 



liAWN, GRAVEL. WALKS, EVERGREENS, ETC., IN THE 



FRONT. AND THE LUSCIOUS STRAWBERRIES 



IN THE REAR. 



I>r our last I promised you some pictures 

 of friend Terry's home, and I am glad to 

 see that our artist has succeeded so well. 



When I asked him Mhat he did to the 

 evergreens to make them so even and regu- 

 lar, and of such bright luxuriant growth, 

 he replied that he did nothing at all. They 

 are the ordinary arbor-vita?. For a while I 

 was a good deal puzzled to know why they 

 did not look as our evergreens do, and a 

 good many others"— one small, indifferent 

 tree, and then another large one, and so on. 

 The secret of it is, the ground was under- 

 drained, enriched by thorough tilth and 

 clover before the trees were put out. In 

 fact, all the ground around friend Terry's 

 home has been worked up to a degree of 

 fertility and evenness of texture that makes 

 all the plants and trees just alike. If the 

 arbor-vitfe grows of its own accord of the 

 beautiful shape of those about friend Ter- 

 ry's home, I should never think of bringing 

 them into artificial shape with shears and 

 trimmers. 



HOME OF T. B. TEUKY. 



The graveled walk, the shrubbery, and 

 vines by the porch tell their own story ; and 

 a row of evergreens on the right and on the 

 left called forth exclamations of surprise 

 from me on account of their regular ap- 

 pearance and beautiful shape. The house, 

 it should be remembered, is on the north 

 side of a street running east and west. 

 These rows of evergreens, therefore, run 

 north and south ; and there is another row, 

 seen in the strawberry picture, just across 

 the back end of the dooryard, thus making 

 an inclosure. 



Having now viewed the front, the reader 

 will please go with me up the gravel walk. 

 We will turn off to the right, near the cor- 

 ner of the inclosure. Right here is the out- 

 building that friend Terry has several times 

 described in our agricultural papers. It is 

 such a beautiful, secluded spot, overshad- 

 owed by the evergreens and other trees, that 

 a picture of it is given in one of our rural 

 papers as a hint to farmers in the way of 

 comfort and convenience to their wives and 

 grown-up daughters, to say nothing of the 

 younger ones. As we step through the ever- 



