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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 



thirsty, between ten and eleven I take a 

 pint basketful and eat them just as you 

 would an apple. Strawberries are gone now, 

 so I have to take blackberries. 



Well, a great many say we must not eat 

 things before going to bed. Now, I have 

 repeatedly taken a pint of blackberries, just 

 at dusk, to see what the result would be. 

 There was not any bad result at all ; but I 

 felt just as fresh, happy, and strong in the 

 morning as one might who has never known 

 any thing of sickness. In fact, I have tried 

 repeatedly so see what harm it would do to 

 eat berries in excess at almost any time of 

 day. While I am engaged in my outdoor 

 work it does not do a bit of harm. I notice 

 this, however, that I am getting a real dis- 

 like for meat victuals during hot weather. 

 Give me berries and milk and good bread 

 and butter, and you may have the rest. 

 Plenty of berries is a great saving of the 

 meat-bill ; and where you raise the berries 

 yourself they are certainly the cheapest. 

 Why, my good friend, have you not felt re- 

 peatedly, especially as you get up in the 

 morning, during hot weather, that you do 

 not want any cooked breakfast at all? A 

 bowl of good milk from the cellar or refrig- 

 erator, some nice ripe berries, and a little 

 good bread and butter to go with it, seems 

 to be a relief. Possibly your good wife may 

 tind it a relief also. Of course, there are 

 things raised in the garden that seem to 

 take the place of berries ; but although I 

 have been, at different times in my life, a 

 great advocate of meat, and I am yet in 

 fold weather, I do believe that health and 

 happiness come with fresh fruits and berries, 

 instead of animal food, in fwt weather. 



THE PEACH TOMATO, ETC. 



After my remarks in the last issue, we re- 

 ceived the following from W. J. Green, of 

 the Ohio Experiment Station : 



A VEGETABLE-WAGON BELONGING TO OUR OHIO EX- 

 PERIMENT STATION. 



Friend Knot:— You speak favorably of the Peach 

 tomato, but say nothing' concerning- its quality. In 

 iny opinion it is unexcelled for slicing. We send 

 out a wagon, after your plan, to dispose of our gar- 

 den products, as so many people came here to buy 

 vegetables and fruits, and annoyed us not a little. 

 To get rid of this annoyauce we commenced deliv- 

 ering our products at the houses of our customers. 

 We find this part of our work to be much more use- 

 ful than we supposed it would be. We simply 

 thought to turn our products into cash, and then 

 put the money into improvements in other experi- 

 mental work; but we have found that we can now 

 carry our work a step further than we had thought 

 of doing. We now not only learn the comparative 

 value of the varieties in the field tested, but, what 

 is often quite as useful, we learn what sells the 

 best in the market. By retailing we learn this 

 much better than by wholesaling. The Peach to- 

 mato would hardly pell at the groceries; but some 

 of our customers got a taste of them, also to using 

 them, partly for table decoration, as they would 

 peaches or any showy fruit. That is, they set the 

 tomatoes in dishes on the table, whole, and slice 

 and eat as wanted. The result is, several different 

 ladies want all we have, and our salesman (Mr. 



Turner, a Medina Co. boy) says that he could sell 

 Peach tomatoes the season through at five cents 

 per quart. 



I can not say where or when the peach tomato 

 originated; but it is not new. It seems to have 

 dropped out of cultivation, nearly, for years. Lan- 

 dreth catalogued it a year or two ago. Livingston 

 brought it before the public more prominently last 

 year, and now I hope it will not be allowed to drop 

 again. Careful selection oughtto increase its size. 



W. J. Green. 



Ohio Experiment Station, Columbus. 



Many thanks, friend G. But I am a little 

 surprised, even now, that you lay no stress 

 on the fact that the Peach tomato never rots. 

 As you suggest, it can not well take the 

 place of our large tomatoes, on account of 

 its inferior size ; but its other qualities, es- 

 pecially its unexcelled flavor, are, I think, 

 going to give it a prominent place in our 

 gardens. I am rejoiced to know that you 

 are sending out a wagon. Why, it can not 

 help but be a splendid thing in connection 

 with your work of testing fruits and vegeta- 

 bles. I had not thought of it before, but 

 there is no better way to test things in the 

 world than to take them fresh from the gar- 

 den and present them to the attention of 

 people around at their homes. And I think 

 it will demonstrate that many a man — yes, 

 and woman too— who is out of employment 

 may earn a good livelihood by raising and 

 disposing of things in this way. There is 

 another thing that I much enjoy in connec- 

 tion with our vegetable -wagon : It comes 

 around about nine o'clock for fresh berries 

 and vegetables. Well, in front of our store 

 we have a long stand for the display of fruit 

 and garden-stuff. As the boys bring the 

 things in from the field, it is my privilege, 

 when not too busy, to arrange them on this 

 stand. We, have apples, pears, peaches, ber- 

 ries, grapes, etc. ; cabbages, squashes, toma- 

 toes, little yellow pumpkins (the early ones 

 I have told you about), summer squashes, 

 beets, turnips, and every thing that grows. 

 Well, I have learned that, by making a pret- 

 ty show of these things, people will stop as 

 they go by, and I have often made quite a 

 few sales in this way. A great deal depends 

 on having things look well. For instance, 

 Livingston's Beauty tomatoes are put in 

 clean new baskets holding half a peck, each 

 tomato being wiped with a damp cloth until 

 its glossy surface shows to advantage. By 

 the way, I am inclined to think that there is 

 not a prettier tomato grown than Living- 

 ston's Beauty. When people ask what kind 

 they are, I reply, ''Livingston's Beauty. 1 ' 

 They often exclaim, " Well, they are beau- 

 ties, sure enough. " The larger Iguotums and 

 some other varieties are mostly round and 

 smooth ; but the Beauties are all handsome, 

 every one of them. This year we have not 

 an ungainly tomato on these vines. Brother 

 Livingston, we thank you for having given 

 us the Beauty tomato, and we feel a little 

 bit proud of the fact that you are an Ohio 

 man, and right near our Experiment Station 

 at Columbus. Now, Bro. L.. cant you take 

 hold of this Peach tomato and make it just a 

 little bit " bigger " ? May be Bro. Green 

 can help a little. 



