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(iLKANlNGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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yourself and pray for wisdom. It need not be a 

 long prayer unless you feel that there are a 

 good many things you wish to tell the dear 

 Savior about it. Don't forget. I beg of you. lo 

 pray for all parties that take any part in the 

 matter that troubles you. Jf thi-rcis anybody 

 in the question whom you do nol feci like pray- 

 ing for. this is the titst thing to be got out of the 

 way. "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the 

 Lord will not hear me." And. again, the Sav- 

 ior says. •■ Love your enemies; do good to them 

 that hate you. and pray for them that di-.spite- 

 fully use you."' So the first part of your prayer 

 will probably be to gel self down and out 

 of the way. You want first to learn to looe 

 your enemies, and to pray for them and resolve 

 to do them good. This word " good " used in 

 this sense is to be interpreted by this same Holy 

 Spirit. Instead of getting revenge on an oppo- 

 nent the thought must constantly be befoi'e \ou 

 that you are trying to make him better, and, 

 above all things, to lead him to Christ Jesus. 

 Unless you can do this you need not go any 

 further with your praying. No wisdom will be 

 given you. and no victory will come, until you 

 have mastered ftelfish feelings as I have men- 

 tioned: but after having done this, oh what a 

 broad grand universe opens before you! It is 

 exactly like cliinbing the mountains— you have 

 got above earthly storms and passions, and are 

 looking abroad through a heavenly region. 

 Now, remember the promise — '• If any man lack 

 wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all 

 men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it sIkiU 

 be given him."' 



High-pressure Gardening. 



BY A. I. ROOT. 



THE PRIZET.\KEK ANP SPANISH KING ONIONS. 



Friend Root:— In our test of 181)0 we had the 

 Spanish King from Henderson and the Prize- 

 taker from Maule. These two onions were so 

 near alike that no one could see any difference, 

 so we pronounced them the same; but in the 

 test of 1891 we had the Spanish King from 

 .Johnson & Stokes. Currie Bros., and Leonard, 

 and the Prizetaker from Maule. The Spanish 

 King from Johnson it Stokes and Currie Bros, 

 were nearly alike, but were uneven, and mixed 

 with red onions. The Spanish King from Leon- 

 ard was a long, pointed onion, and rotted badly 

 before it was pulled, and was not much good. 

 The Prizetaker resembled the first two, but was 

 much larger and more even, with scarcely any 

 mixture of any other onions. But the most no- 

 ticeable difference was in the tops, the Prize- 

 taker having a different shade of green from 

 any other onion that we had. Now. to answer 

 the question directlv. •• Are the Prizetaker and 

 Spanish King the same?" 1 will say that I 

 think they sliould be. but what they are de- 

 pends on circumstances. 



I know of no kind of vegetable seed that vary 

 so greatlv from year to year, and from different 

 seedsmen, as do the foi-eign varieties of onion. 

 Each year sees soine new names added, an old 

 one taken off, while the mixture of English and 

 Italian and other foreign names makes the 

 thing confusing. This. I think, is due to the 

 fact that the seed is all (or nearly all) import- 

 ed, and the seedsman is only a customer, and is 

 not sure what the seed is until he sees it grow- 

 ing, and he has to depend on the reliability of 

 the grower for good stock. I think that, when 

 there gets to be a larger demand for these vari- 

 eties of onions, the seedsman will have the seed 

 grown under his own supervision, and then it 

 will be more uniform. We also received an 



onion under the name of Yellow Globe Spanish 

 that was nearly equal to the Prizetaker. The 

 Yellow Rocca al.-o resembled it very much. I 

 think that, in the onions I have mentioned, 

 there is not nuich more variation, with the one 

 exception, than there is found in the Yellow 

 Danvers fiom different seedsmen, but perhaps 

 this may be putting it pretty strong: but there 

 is a great deal of difference in the Yellow Dan- 

 vers wluMi received from different sources. 



E. C. C.KEEN. 



Agricultural Experiment Sta.. Columbus. 



[Thank you, friend G. It turns out just 

 about as I had expected; and why in the world 

 we shouldn't grow seed here as well as they do 

 in foreign countries, is strange tome. By the 

 way. I have just picked out a lot of Sjjanish 

 onions from the Cleveland market— great big 

 handsome bulbs, with very small, insignificant 

 necks. These are hard, firm cmions. now in the 

 middle of April, and we have planted them out 

 in order that we may raise some seed ourselves. 

 In regard to this matter of seed, you know there 

 has been quite a little complaint lately of celery 

 that would send up seed-stalks instead of mak- 

 ing celery. We have recently had the same 

 complaint with carrots. A great many would 

 send up a seed-stalk without making a root of 

 any account. Can the matter be remedied ? I 

 will give you just one thing that 1 know about 

 it. H. A. March had this same trouble: and to 

 see what he could do he wintered over some 

 nice large stalks of celery, and raised seed from 

 them. The result was. that not a stalk ran up 

 to seed in a whole acre. I saw the celery my- 

 self. And this is what he did after just once 

 trying. Suppose he had saved the seed from 

 one of these celery plants that sdids up a seed- 

 stalk the very first thing — what would the re- 

 sult have been? A great many of our Spanish 

 King onions had great big necks and compara- 

 tively small bulbs. As we had no particular 

 use for these we left them in the ground and 

 they all wintered over nicely, and are now com- 

 mencing to grow. We propose to bunch them 

 up and sell them for green onions just before 

 they start to go to seed. If they should, how- 

 ever, repent of their "evil ways." and start in 

 this year to make a large onion, why. of course 

 we will let them do so.] 



THE AMERICAN PEAKL ONION. 



Although we have had a winter of unusual 

 severity, the American Pearl has once more 

 wintered nicely — that is, sets that were i)nt out 

 in September so as to make a good growth be- 

 fore winter, all came through. Where the)- 

 were not planted out till October or later, many 

 of then> were thrown out of the ground. As an 

 experiment we sowed some seed of the Ameri- 

 can Pearl .some time in July. When we put out 

 the sets as mentioned above, we also put out 

 onion-plants from these seeds. The plants 

 were, perhaps, as large as a leadpencil. with a 

 bulb on the bottom about the size of ordinary 

 sets. These, too, have wintered perfectly: 

 hence I conclude that the American Pearl, 

 either from seed sown in July or from .sets 

 planted in September, if they make a growth 

 so as to get well rooted, they will winter over 

 safely in ordinary winters. We tested quite a 

 number of other onion-sets in the same way. 

 Some of them wintered partly — others almost 

 not at all. The Spanish King came out very 

 well. By the way. We have also wintered over 

 cold-frame onion-plants about the size to be 

 planted out. These had no covering except a 

 little straw. Most of them are all right. By 

 the aid of sash they could, without question, be 

 wintered as we winter cold-frame cabbage- 

 plants. 



