THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Akistotle called the qvieen bee Bnsileus 

 (kinjj); tlie Latins, J^ea- (kiiiK); and Shakes- 

 peare wrote: "They have a king." 



The tulip tree {LiriodcnOron tulipifern) 

 commonly known in the Northern States as 

 whitewooci, and in the South as poplar, is 

 being introduced in Germany. The Frau- 

 endarfer Blaetter says it flourishes in all 

 localities, and also states that in the fall the 

 leaves become wholly of a golden-yellow 

 color, which, seen from afar, constitute a 

 wonderfully beautiful sight." 



Herr G. Dathe is the author of a work 

 entitled: "Introduction to tiie Culture of 

 Foreign Races of Bees, with Especial Re- 

 ference to the Italian Bee." In his last 

 edition, issued this year, he still gives the 

 preference to the Italian race. Ilis objec- 

 tion to the Cyprians is that they are not as 

 docile as the Italians; but he does not ad- 

 duce very good proof of the correctness of 

 this view. 



The August number of UApiculteur 

 (Paris) states that the work of preparation 

 for the Exposition to be held next year is 

 progressing, and that exhibitors in Class 8.3 

 (apiculture, silk culture, etc.) would receive 

 during August, letters of admission, assign- 

 ing them somewhat less space than was 

 solicited. The arrangement of the semi- 

 rustic pavilion designed to receive the ento- 

 mological products, collections, and instru- 

 ments, is said to be convenient, but the 

 space allotted is small. 



" Salicylic acid cures foul-brood, but 

 besides being expensive and not always ob- 

 tainable, it has th(^ property of removing 

 the aroma of the hoiu-y to which it is added, 

 thus injuring the quality of the same. Car- 

 bonate of soda does not injure the honey 

 with which it is mixed, and it is within the 

 reach af all. An ai)iarist in Loiret. informs 

 us that he cured his Italian bees of foul- 

 brood by the use of wood ashes. lie has 

 promised to give us his method of applying 

 them.^^—U Apictilteiir. 



After giving notice of an exhibition of 

 flowers Der Elsaesflschr. Tiieneii-Zuechter 

 very sensibly remarks: "We cannot refrain 

 from calling the esjiecial attention of all 

 Alsatian bee-culturists who are also florists, 

 to the exhibition so closely related to api- 

 culture. According to our most unprejudic- 

 ed view, floriculture and apiculture should 

 always go more hand-in-hand. At a 

 florist's exhibition it is quite as proper that 

 the various sorts of honey should find a 

 place; as that at a bee-culturists' exhibition 

 there should be a selection of beautiful 

 plants and flowers." 



A BuAziijAN Plant.— "One of the most 

 important trees of Brazil is the Carnauba 

 {Cofieniicid cerij[er<i), a palm which grows 

 wild in the provinces of Cera, Rio Grande 

 del Norte, and others, and which, during 

 the severest droughts, always remains 

 green. All of its parts are useful— the 

 roqj^s, trunk, fibers, the edible pith, from 

 which wine, vinegar, sugar, and a gum 

 similar to sago, are obtained; the nuts, the 

 dried bast from which huts, mats, brushes, 

 and brooms are made; and, finally, the 

 leaves, which furnish a wax used in the 

 northern provinces in the making of can- 

 dles, and which is largely exported." — 

 Bieyienzeitung. 



When a few hundred of those jolly Ger- 

 man bee-keepers have finished one ot their 

 "big bee-talks," they have a great dinner, 

 with music and toasting, and oftentimes 

 close with an excursion or a musical enter- 

 tainment. At the recent convention held in 

 Tetschen, Bohemia, one of the toasts was: 

 "Long live our beautiful Austria." 



Adam Grimm.— "Bee-culture is not, after 

 all, such a miserably small business. This 

 has been proved by the late Adam Grimm, 

 of .Jefferson, Wis., U. S. A., who left be- 

 hind him the handsome sum of .1?1()0,000— 

 according to our money, about '^10,000 florins 

 —which he ha<l accumulated solely and 

 alone through bee-culture. In fag-end 

 p]urope one would run the risk of being 

 shut ui) in an iiisame asylum if he should 

 but let fall the idea of obtaining a fair liv- 

 ing from bee-culture. Grimm took right 

 hold of it though; he united German 

 thoroughness with genuine Yankee energy; 

 this is shown by the 1,400 stocks on hand at 

 the time of his death. Entertaining the 

 correct idea, namely: that bee-culture has 

 for its aim only the production of honey 

 and wax, he was, as are most of the Ameri- 

 can bee-keepers, almost wholly a honey- 

 l)roducer. Grimm was born at Ilolenbrunn, 

 near Wunsiedel, once belonging to the so- 

 called ' Scchsaemtern des Egerlandes.^ " — 

 Bienenvater, Prague, Bohemia. 



The Cyprian Bee. 



FROM "der bienenvater;" trans- 

 lated BY FRANK BENTON. 



As is well known, I have at various times 

 bred in iny apiary the best known races of 

 bees. After I became aware that there 

 were great difficulties in the way of keeping 

 the races pure, and that the resulting con- 

 fusion easily became great and costly. I be- 

 lieved that the preservation of the purity of 

 the Italians as a very desirable race, was all 

 that need be wished for; after I had con- 

 vinced myself, also, that the Krainer bees 

 were not a wiiit better than our native 

 heath bees; and after I could confirm the 

 expressed opinions concerning the Egyp- 

 tians, I felt not the least inclination to pro- 

 cure and cultivate still another race, though 

 the favorable of Chancellor-Director Cori, 

 of Bruex, relative to the Cyprian bee, as 

 also the epistolary communications of 

 friend Ililbert, might well have induced me 

 to do so. Meanwhile, Herr Cori's articles 

 appeared in the American bee papers, the 

 result of which was that an American bee- 

 keeper addressed a letter to me requesting 

 me to procure for him one or more pure 

 Cyprian queens; and. if necessary, he was 

 even inclined to bear the expense of a jour- 

 ney to the Island of Cyprus, for the sake of 

 coming into iiossession of some pure Cy- 

 prian queens. Since, for my part, a jour- 

 ney to Cyprus for the importation ot the 

 Cyprian bee was not to be thought of, and 

 as the worthy American must have ))laced a 

 very high estimate on pure Cyprian bees, I 

 resolved to -apply directly to Herr Cori, of 

 Bruex. 



In answer to my inquiry I received word 

 that in ]\[ay of the following year, I could 

 obtain the wished-for queens. When, how- 

 ever. May arriveil the case was somewhat 

 different. Upon inquiry about this time I 



