Dee. 20, 1906 



American Itee Journal 



1037 



buds till the leaves begin to unfold. 

 The elms are flowering, and it is un- 

 fortunate that their diminutive, pur- 

 ple-tipped flowers are confined to the 

 higher branches, where they can be 

 seen only as a denser entanglement of 

 interlaced twigs. The elm is eager to 

 welcome the spring with floral offer- 

 ings, and, as if to hurry the season, is 

 scattering her winged seeds before the 

 summer has advanced. The pussies 

 on the willows must have a place 

 among the earliest of spring flowers, 

 and their soft, downy coats, as they 

 come forth from under their winter 

 coverings, give them the welcome as- 

 pect of animation. The male trees are 

 already showing yellow tints, and the 

 pink-tipped pods of the female trees 

 will soon be filled with light bunches 

 of cottony seed. 



The tall, slender Lombardy poplar is 

 a male tree, whose mate has never been 

 brought to this country. It is an un- 

 sociable tree, drawing its branches in 

 to itself as if to avoid all contact with 

 its fellows. From the early catkins of 

 flower on the upper branches it scat- 

 ters its wasted pollen to the passing 

 air. On the alders in the swamp the 

 catkins are expanding, elongating, 

 and swaying with the faintest breeze, 

 sending out little clouds of yellow that 

 tint the adjacent twigs. The flowers 

 borne on the branches of sturdy and 

 vigorous trees may not come with offer- 

 ings of rich and fascinating beauty, 

 but their welcome is none the less cor- 

 dial and sincere. They come in the 

 universal spirit of awakening and re- 

 newal, an earnest of the perpetual 

 youth of Mother Earth.— Editorial in 

 Weekly Globe, Toronto. 



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Kansas. —The Kansas State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will hold its annual meeting on 

 Thursday and Friday, Dec. 27 and 28, 1906, at 

 the State Capitol, at 10 a.m., 2 p.m., and 7 

 p.m. of each day. Mr. C. P. Dadant, Presi- 

 dent of the National Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, and Mr. E. T. Abbott, of St. Joseph, 

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