1894 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



521 



shape of the modern bicycle, we are enabled to 

 make a great many appointments, and to 

 transact a large amount of biisinoss, besides 

 getting lots of enjoyment that would he impos- 

 sible without the wheel ? In fiU't. the modern 

 wheel gives us more ye;us of lif(^— yes, in two 

 ways at least. It enables ;i man to accomplish 

 more work every day. and it gives him strength 

 and energy to actually '"run away from his 

 funeral," or, in other words, to push the funeral 

 off indefinitely. I do not niean to be irreverent, 

 but I borrowed the phra>:e from one of the 

 wheel circulars, and it has seemed to me to ex- 

 press a great truth. 



THE GAULT EVEIU5EAHING UASPI?F,KRY. 



Friend Gault had giviMi up seeins me that 

 day. althoush I told him I was coming; but hfi 

 was very glad notwithstanding: and when I 

 looked at his old original patch of (Jault rasp- 

 berries — the ones where the bearing wood stood 

 up three or four feet high, I did not wonder he 

 wanted me to see it. There were the greatest 

 masses of raspberry bloom I ever saw in my 

 life, and they were humming with bees. And 

 this, mind you. is the first crop only— the crop 

 on the old wood of last year's growth. After 

 this is gone, and the old canes that have borne 

 the crop are cut out. then comes still another 

 crop, prolonged continually till frost; and the 

 last crop on the new growth of wood consists of 

 finer and larger berries than the first. I do not 

 know whether the quantity is equal to the first 

 or not— perhaps not. This old original patch 

 has been pretty well manured; in fact. I do not 

 see how such quantities of bloom could be pro- 

 duced otherwise: but on his new plantation, 

 where he raised the plants lass year, and is pre- 

 paring to raise new ones this year, there was 

 not manure enough so that I could discover 

 any of the effects of it, nor the manure itself, 

 in the soil. It was just fair potato ground, and 

 rows of nice potatoes were already growing 

 between the rows of raspberries. Well, I look- 

 ed at the thrifty young plants, admired the 

 strong sturdy shoots (many of them just burst- 

 ing through the sandy loam), for about half an 

 hour, and I asked questions innumerable: but 

 foi- all that, I confess I do not exactly under- 

 stand the whole mystery of the habit of this 

 wonderful plant. One thing is certain: It has 

 such a pertinacity (if that is the word) in bear- 

 ing fruit in season and out of season, that 

 blossoin-buds keep pushing out on the old and 

 new wood. For instance: Quite a number of 

 tbe readers of Gleanings have purchased one 

 or more plants. You put them in the ground, 

 and in a little while a raspberry-shoot came 

 up. When a foot or more high, it commenced 

 to put out blossom-buds. Well, this first shoot 

 comes from the short stem on the old wood, and 

 behaves itself like old wood. Two or more of 

 these stems may push out. having blossom-buds 

 on them: but after a while the stronger and 

 ranker shoot will push up from the root itself. 

 The^e were just pushing out in considerable 

 numbers; and this is the new wood, or new 

 growth. The two may be distinguished by the 

 time of starting, and by the figure and color of 

 the plant. The new growth is a much stouter 

 plant, and of rather different color. These 

 grow around the first shoots, which come from 

 the old wood; but eventually they, too, proceed 

 to bear fruit, not only from the tip end of the 

 central shoot, but on the branches that come 

 ont all the way down, sometimes clear down to 

 the ground; and if we have much rainy weath- 

 er, the many clusters of berries will have to be 

 mulched with straw, or something of the sort, 

 to ke<'p thein out of the dirt. I suggested 

 stretching a wire a foot and a half or two feet 



from the ground, and tying up these clusters to 

 the wire. 



Now. if you let the vine bear fruit all it wants 

 to. you will never get any young plants. It 

 will just keep bearing fi'uit. and increasing, 

 until it becomes a gnsat clump of roots and 

 shoots: but if you wish to tret new plants you 

 must pick off the blossom-buds: then you can 

 get now plants by layering. This is the plan 

 in outline: but sh'Mild you visit friend Gault, 

 and see how li(^ niiiiKiges. you would find more 

 queer things corning out here and there than 

 you expected. Ilis young plants occupy now 

 about two acres of ground, and he says he is 

 actually obliged tn do every bit of hoeing in this 

 patch himscMf. He says he does not know of a 

 man or boy who would not chop oft' those pre- 

 cious shoots together with the weeds, when 

 they were just pushing through the ground 

 around the hills. And. by the way, I presume 

 I have lost something in that way already by 

 letting the boys hoe my bed of Gault raspberries. 



Prof. W. J. Green, of the Ohio Experiment 

 Station, is to visit the place when the first fruit 

 begins to ripen— probably about the first of 

 July; and it is to be my privilege to be there 

 with him. 



If thy brother sliall trespass against thee, go and 

 tell him his fault between thee and him alone; if he 

 sliatl hear thee, thou has gained tliy brother.— Matt. 

 18:15. 



Dear Mr. Root:— I writt; to let you know how 

 mucli pleasure your different articles on Christiani- 

 ty give me every month. There is only one fault 

 witli them— they are not long enough. I always 

 liate to come to the end of them, for they are very 

 instructing to me. Speaking of what you did in 

 the last Gleanings, May 15, reminds me that I wish 

 you would some time tell us how a person ought to 

 feel and do, who has those around him who are 

 stealing and backbiting. I mean, I suppose you 

 know, on the Christian side. I h now you have had 

 papers pretty nearly on sucli a subject, but not 

 quite in this line. You know how natural it is to 

 have no heart for any one who is nice and pretty 

 before your face, but different wlien your face is 

 somewhere else. Now I should just like to know 

 wliat a Christian feeling should he toward such a 

 one as that, and especiallj' if. witli all the rest, they 

 are actuallj' steaUnn from you. Could you be very 

 friendly or loving toward a person who does that 

 way? and how? if so, I should like to know. If you 

 had ten pages in tliis line in your paper it would 

 not be anj' too mucli for me; for when I first begin 

 your articles I keep reading till the end comes, and 

 am sorry when tl\rough, as I have told j'ou before: 

 for it speaks ofwiuit people wlio want to be right 

 should do, and tells liow to do. Annie Bull. 



Meriden, Conn., May 18. 



My good friend Annie, you pay me a rare com- 

 pliment in the above kind letter, especially 

 where you say that these Home Papers and 

 Neighbor Papers tell what people should do 

 who want to do right. May God help me do this. 

 If my many experiences and trials have fitted 

 me to teach in the line of righteousness, and if 

 I indeed have a natural gift in this direction, 

 may God bless and sanctify that gift, and 

 baptize me with his Holy Spirit, that I may 

 teach aright! In the first place, my dear young 

 friend (for I take it for granted you are but a 

 child comparatively, even though you love 

 righteousness and hate iniquity), let us be sure 

 that the prince of darkness has not got into our 

 own hearts, and persuaded us that people are 

 worse than they really are. It seems to me the 



