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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 15 



in touch with the rest of their brethren in 

 the craft. 



The reference to those 10,000 cans is one 

 of manj^ to show that Mr. Clayton's esti- 

 inate of the California honey crop, based as 

 it was on the number of cans sold, was far 

 too large. — Ed.] 



THE KUROPEAN LINDEN. 



In regard to the article about European 

 linden, in Gleanings for Sept. 15, I would 

 advise you to be careful to find out if all 

 European lindens bloom later than the 

 American kind. In Germany they have 

 two kinds — one with small leaves, Tilia 

 parvifo/ia, and a large-leaved kind, Tilia 

 i^randifolia. I think this is the botanical 

 naine. The first has leaves that measure 

 about 3'^ inches across, and the other leaf 

 measures about 5 inches. Soine that I have 

 seen were alinost 7 inches. The trees don't 

 differ in any other way. I don't know 

 whether both kinds blossom at the same 

 time. The small-leaved kinds seem to be 

 more common. 



In front of our house in Germany were 

 two lindens of the larg-e-leaved kind, and I 

 never saw blossoms on them. They were 

 planted in 1872, came from a nursery, and 

 were about 12 feet high. In 1889, when I 

 left home. the3' were almost as high as the 

 house, but had never bloomed. 



Carl Vollmer. 



Columbus, Montana. 



[The size of basswood leaves depends 

 largely on the season and locality, but 

 more particularl3' on the size of the tree. A 

 sapling will have much larger leaves than 

 a tree ten inches through at the biise, and 

 yet both may be of the same variety. 

 Whether the Tilia grandifolia is the same 

 as our Tilia Americana, I am not botanist 

 enough to say; but I ain of the impression 

 they are one and the same. — Ed.] 



BEE AND HONEY BUSINESS AT SPOKANE, 

 WASHINGTON. 



Will the editor, or some one else, please 

 tell me through Gleanings what the possi- 

 bilities are for the bee and honey business 

 at Spokane, Weishington ? I would write 

 to some real-estate man there, but think I 

 ain more sure of getting the facts through 

 Gleanings. 



I have spent the summer here in Colorado, 

 and, being afflicted with dj^spepsia, I have 

 found that, between the very hot sunshine 

 and alkali water, I shall be forced to 

 "move on." I don't suppose Washington 

 is perfect; but I am told thej^ have an 

 abundance of soft water, the best of fruit, 

 and more moderate weather. I must saj^ 

 this is a fine country for those who have 

 good health; but j^ou can't build up a good 

 digestion on alkali water. 



Sterling, Col. J. O. Haynes. 



[Will some correspondent please answer? 

 —Ed.] 



f^DlTORlAC 



A. I. R. is once more at home, and at his 

 desk; and although he has not as j-et look- 

 ed over the great heap of letters awaiting 

 him he will do so at once. 



On a second reading of my footnote in this 

 issue to A. C. Miller, where I refer to some 

 of Mr. Alley's queens as going " very bad," 

 I see the impression might be gathered 

 that his queens were worse than others'. 

 This I did not mean. I only meant to show 

 that the simple fact of his using small nu- 

 clei does not prevent good queens from going 

 to the bad after their journej'. I believe 

 his queens average well with others'. 



NOT a HONEY TRUST BUT A NEW HONEY 

 EXCHANGE IN CALIFORNIA. 



Owing to the fact that there have been 

 great exaggerations as to the California 

 honej" crop, and to the further fact that 

 prices have been slashed and cut to pieces 

 on the coast, simpl3'- from a lack of co-oper- 

 ation, a movement was started bv' B. S. K. 

 Bennett, of the Pacific Bee Journal, to or- 

 ganize a honej' trust, to take in all the 

 large honey-producers as well as the small 

 ones. The object was to control prices by 

 taking the entire output of honejs but the 

 effort, I understand, fell flat, as bee-keep- 

 ers do not take kindl}' to trusts, although 

 they do believe in co-operation. A meeting 

 was held in Los Angeles, and, instead of 

 a trust being formed, a sort of exchange 

 was organized that will be known as the 

 Southern California Hone}' Association. To 

 this all bee-keepershaving50ormore colonies 

 will be eligible to membership. The Board, 

 as announced in the newspapers, takes in 

 some of the most influential bee-keepers of 

 California. This Board consists of W. T. 

 Richardson, of Ventura; Frank McNay, of 

 Los Angeles; W. W. Bliss, of Grange; M. 

 H. Mendleson, of Ventura; G. W. Brodbeck, 

 of Santa Ana; D. A. Wheeler, of Riverside; 

 G. S. Stubblefield, of Los Angeles; H. C. 

 Williamson, of Redlands. Full particulars 

 will probably be furnished our readers. 

 For the jiresent we are able to give them 

 only the reports as we gather them from 

 newspaper accounts. 



THE DEATH OF MRS. MOSES QUINBY. 



We have just received notice of the death 

 of Mrs. Martha Ouinby, wife of the lament- 

 ed Moses Ouinby, which took place Oct. 31, 

 iit the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. L. 

 C. Root, Stamford, Ct., in the 88th year of 

 her age. Her husband died in 1875, so that 

 she survived her husband over a quarter of 

 a century. 



In the rapid advancement and many 

 changes in bee culture that have taken 



