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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Nov. 



on his own head by his own act ! not only 

 torture and anguish to himself, but a great 

 stream of sin and crime threw its slimy 

 folds down through generation alter genera- 

 tion. One of his own sons committed a 

 horrible crime that is so rare in our day that 

 many do not even know the nan e of it. 

 Another sou murdered this brother, pretend- 

 ing it was to avenge his sister ; but it is 

 more likely that it was because this brother 

 stood in his pathway to the throne. After 

 that, he with consummate skill laid a plot 

 to rob his aged father of the throne, and 

 even planned to put his father to death, 

 because he could not wait until the throne 

 should come to him lawfully. To carry out 

 his schemes he pretended to be pious. Now, 

 it does not require a very close and acute 

 study of the Scriptures to see that all this 

 fearful bloodshed and catastrophe was al- 

 most the direct result of the decision of a 

 single moment. Once in his life David con- 

 sented to follow the promptings of Satan. 

 He forsook the God of his youth, the God of 

 his manhood, for a bauble that Satan held 

 up to his gaze. Then he tried to cover up 

 this sin. He was foolish enough to think 

 that, because he was king, he could brave 

 public opinion. If you want to know how 

 he writhed under the tortures of a guilty 

 conscience, read some of the Psalms. " Tru- 

 ly many sorrows shall be to the wicked ; 

 but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy 

 shall compass him about." 1 A few days ago, 

 by accident my eye caught on a single 

 verse of a Psalm. By the way, I am now en- 

 joying perhaps better health than I ever did 

 before, but I still hold on to my noonday 

 nap. I have tried going without it; but 

 when I have much mental work, if it is 

 missed I feel in some way unhinged all the 

 rest of the day ; my brain is cloudy and dim ; 

 but after having, say, ten minutes' sleep, or 

 just enough to entirely lose consciousness, I 

 am bright and clear all the rest of the day. 

 Now, this text I am going to give you, I 

 often think of when I begin to feel the need 

 of this daily nap ; and, by the way, I have 

 discovered that, in order to drop to sleep in- 

 stantly, I must have a clear conscience. 

 Now, then, listen to the text that has of 

 late become like sweet music to me: " I will 

 both lay me clown in peace and sleep, for 

 thou, Lord, only makest me to dwell in safe- 

 ty.' 1 My friends, let me make you a pres- 

 ent of my text. Take it with you to your 

 day's toil, and hold fast to it when you go to 

 rest after the toil of the day is over. 



As you lose consciousness, let your last 

 thought be in a line with the text ; and when 

 that last sleep that knows no waking shall 

 come, may the thought be yours. 



SPECIAL DEPARTMENT FOR A. I. ROOT, AND HIS 

 FRIENDS WHO LOVE TO RAISE CROPS. 



GARDENING IN NOVEMBER. 



lTp S a rule, most gardening operations, 

 ^ffe unless they are conducted under glass, 

 jP«* are suspended, at least in this local- 

 ■*** ! ity, during the present month. Our 

 grounds are, however, making a very 

 pretty show just now. For the first time 



we have tried the Chinese Rose winter rad- 

 ish and Black Spanish. We are greatly 

 pleased with both of them, especially with 

 the Rose. Even when as large as a good- 

 sized apples, they are perfectly crisp and 

 tender, and not as strong as spring and sum- 

 mer radishes. We have had such fine rad- 

 ishes all summer long, that most of our 

 customers were getting a little tired of 

 them ; but after they got a taste of the 

 above, a brisk trade started up at once. 



Spinach is making a beautiful growth, 

 and we are having a brisk trade in it, at be 

 a pound. The greatest trouble in getting it 

 introduced is, that everybody will persist in 

 calling it "greens. 1 ' It is not greens any 

 more than asparagus is greens, and it should 

 be cooked something as we cook asparagus. 



We are also having a nice trade in Purple- 

 top Globe turnips. They are pulled before 

 they get to be much larger than apples ; and, 

 cooked the same day they are gathered, they 

 are excellent. 



Of course, we have our greenhouse and 

 cold-frames pretty well filled ; but so far we 

 have not had freezing weather enough to 

 prevent all of these and other hardy plants 

 from making a better growth outdoors than 

 they do inside. 



Celery is making a finer growth at this 

 date, Nov. 13, than at any other time during 

 the season ; and we are furnishing our wag- 

 on with beautiful stalks of Self-blanching 

 and Golden Dwarf, which goes off briskly at 

 10 cts. per pound. 



We have very fine tomatoes yet on the 

 wagon, that come from our greenhouses. 

 The frost nipped the foliage a little, one or 

 two nights, even through the glass ; but 

 they are now growing and ripening all right. 



The Oregon everbearing strawberry is al- 

 ready putting out buds to blossom, both in 

 the greenhouse andjj outside. There is cer- 

 tainly something peculiar about the persis- 

 tent disposition of this strawberry to bear 

 fruit all through the summer, and even late 

 into the fall. The large strong plant, men- 

 tioned in our last issue, full of berries, has 

 taken root, and the berries are slowly ripen- 

 ing. We are going to try hard to make 

 them produce runners under glass. If we 

 do, our friends shall have plenty of plants. 



We have beautiful lettuce still growing 

 finely in the open air. Grand Rapids seems 

 to be very hardy, for late lettuce in the 

 open ground, as well as for cold-frames or 

 greenhouses. The new mammoth salsify is 

 giving us roots almost like parsnips, and 

 they are as great an improvement in quality 

 as in size. 



Burpee has also given us a mammoth 

 crookneck squash that seems to be equal in 

 every respect to the common crookneck, 

 but it is ever so much larger. Now, where 

 we get hold of a variety that is without 

 question superior to the old one, as in the 

 case of the summer crook-neck squash, etc.. 

 why not drop the old ones entirely V I know 

 by experience that we w r ant to be a little 

 careful about deciding hastily ; for on fur- 

 ther trial the improved variety sometimes 

 proves to be lacking in earliness, in quality, 

 or in some other respect. But where the 

 new variety proves to be in all respects su- 



