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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



[March 



jars and his brand on boxes, he will soon find a 

 market if he bottles a choice article only. Good 

 honey put up neatly and in small quantities will 

 always bring the best price, and it is my experience 

 that machine extracted honey is the preferred article 

 if the consumer is once convinced of its purity. 



A manufactured article of Cuba honey finds a 

 ready market in our cities, because it is put up in 

 merchantable shape, i. e. in jars, nicely labeled and 

 styled "White Clover Honey." Now, I claim that 

 the sale of a manufactured article would not be 

 possible if our bee keepers would only take the 

 necessary pains to bring into market, in proper 

 shape and under their own names, their machine 

 extracted honey, which is the only pure honey possi- 

 ble, and if once known to consumers will be the 

 only honey in demand. 



For list of prices, see advertisment in another 

 column, and for further particulars, address 



Chas. F. Muth. 



Cincinnati, 0., March 1, 1873. 



Canada Victor Tomato. 



This is a a new tomato, concerning which Mr. J. 

 J. H. Gregory says: "Last season a gentleman re 

 siding in Canada sent me a glowing description of 

 a new tomato. I wrote asking for a pinch of seed 

 that I might test it in my experimental garden, — a 

 tract of land of about three-quarters of an acre, 

 which is pretty well filled every season with vari- 

 eties of new vegetables my numerous correspond- 

 ents kindly send me for trial. I planted these on 

 my ground, anticipating the usual result, a tomato 

 with some very good characteristics, but on the 

 whole not superior to some kinds already before 

 the public. About the time the plants were put 

 out, I left for Europe ; when I returned my fore- 

 man called my special attention to this new tomato, 

 which had ripened its fruit several days earlier than 

 any other kind of the twenty-five varieties I was grow- 

 ing scattered over my different farms. On examining 

 the new sort I saw at a glance that here was a de- 

 cided acquisition. The fruit was not only the 

 earliest of all, but of large size and exceedingly 

 symmetrical and handsome, while in ripening it 

 had no green left around the stem, a great fault 

 with many kinds otherwise good. The fruit was 

 heavy, full meated and rich, between round and 

 oval in shape, and red in color; it was distributed 

 very evenly on the vines. A correspondence 

 developed the fact that the gentleman who sent it 

 had for the past three seasons been testing it side 

 by side with other standard varieties, and found 



that it ripened six to ten days earlier. 'Bhis fact 

 may be in part accounted for by its having been 

 grown for years in a northern latitude, while the 

 utmost care had always been used in the selecting 

 of seed stock. As fair a test as I can present of its 

 merits is this : a market gardener came over forty 

 miles specially to examine my varieties of tomatoes 

 on the ground as they grew, that he might select 

 the very best for his own planting. After carefully 

 examining every sort, he emphatically declared his 

 preference for this new kind, though he knew nothing 

 of its history." See advertisement. 



The "Marblehead" Squash. 



The above engraving is that of a new squash sent 

 out for the first time this season, by Mr. J. J. H. 

 Gregory. He has named it the " Marblehead," and 

 says of it: "This new squash, as a rule, is charac- 

 terized by a shell of more flinty hardness than the 

 Hubbard. It is usually thicker and flatter at the 

 top. It has a greater specific gravity. The flesh is 

 of rather a lighter color than the Hubbard, while its 

 combination of sweetness, dryness and delicious 

 flavor is something really remarkable. In yield it 

 equals the Hubbard, while its keeping properties 

 are declared to surpass that famous variety. In the 

 important matter of purity, it excels the Hubbard 

 and every squash that I have ever raised. Its outer 

 color is a light blue ; not to be confounded with the 

 blue colored squashes that come at times from the 

 Hubbard seed — mongrels made by a cross of the 

 Hubbard and a thin skinned squash which we used 

 to call Middleton blue, which we were raising 

 before we knew of the Hubbard, and raised for a 

 few years after we had the Hubbard, side by side 

 with it." 



Marshall P. Wilder, Geo. B. Loring, and Paschall 

 Morris, having tested this new squash, recommend 

 it very highly. For further particulars, see adver- 

 tisement. 



Bee-Keepers' Call. 



All bee-keepers in favor of a call and organiza- 

 tion of a Bee-Keepers' Society in Corry, Pa., on the 

 third Wednesday in April, will address the under- 

 signed on receipt of this Journal, and if enough 

 respond I will make arrangements for a room and 

 reduced hotel and railroad fare, and will report in 

 April number of Journal. E. L. Wellman, 



February 20, 1873. Corry, Pa. 



