GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb 15. 



cable enabling us to reach the sufferers thus 

 quickly. Now, there is one hopeful feature to 

 me in the work that is going on. With the 

 activity at present being displayed in relieving 

 the sufferers it does not seem to me that the 

 Turks will dare to go into any more slaughter. 

 If they do, lei them beware. 



Special Notices in the Line of Gardening, etc. 



By A. I. Root. 



REDUCEn PRICES ON OCR RURAL BOOKS. 



Please read over our book list in this and the next 

 ssue, and note the great reductions in the price of 

 lany of the standard books. 



OUR WHITE PLUME CELERY SEED. 



For many years past we liave been getting our 

 celery seed from one particular house. Their prices 

 are higher, consequently ours are rather higher; 

 in fact, we have had seed offered us by a good many 

 seed-growers at less than half what we now pay; 

 but we were afraid to risk any thing cheaper. Be- 

 low Is a sample of the letters we get in regard to it: 



Mr Root:— The White Plume celery seed that I got from 

 you last season produced the best lot of celery ever grown in 

 this section. Please send me by return mail as follows: . . . 



Richfield Springs, N. Y., Feb. 7. L. P. Seaton, Florist. 



OUR JERSEY WAKEFIELD CABB.A^GE SEED. 



For many years past, all of our Wakefield seed 

 has come from R. A March, as our friends may 

 know; and it has been extra select stock seed. 

 Aside from the results obtained on our own 

 ground, year after year, we have had most excellent 

 reports from north, south, east, and west. Last 

 summer we had cabbage from this seed— hard solid 

 heads weighing from 8 to 10 lbs., and almost every 

 plant made a nice head of cabbage. Seed was start- 

 ed in the greenhouse, in the middle of February, 

 planted out in cold-frames in March, and then set 

 out In the field in April. In this way the plants 

 were hardened off so as to be nearly if not entirely 

 equivalent to cold-frame plants. Now is the time 

 to start your seeds under glass. See prices else- 

 where. 



VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS. 



In our issue for Dee. 1, page 871, 1 reviewed a lit- 

 tle book entitled " Vegetanle Forcing." I said that, 

 although the price was $1.00, the book was hardly 

 worth 26 cts. Just now, however, we have got a 

 little book from that veteran seedsman, Henry A. 

 Dreer, entitled, "Vegetables under Glass," and it is 

 really a little gem. It really does my heart good to 

 find something on the matter of gardening, espe- 

 cially gardening under glass, from those who have 

 been years In the business, like Henderson, Lan- 

 dreth, or Dreer. The book is profusely illustrated, 

 and the pictures alone are worth the price. The 

 paper and print are beautiful. One feels sorry 

 when he has read it all through, to think there is no 

 more of it. Last, but not least, this Utile book of 

 over 100 pages is mailed for only 3.5 cts. We should 

 be glad to furnish it at this price to any who may 

 want it. I may remark that Dreer himself has a 

 single greenhouse covering an entire acre. 



HUBBARD SQUASHES. 



A man came in last week, saying he had about 100 

 nice Hubbard squashes, and wanted to know what 

 we would give for them. I paid him Vi cts. per lb. 

 for 35 of the squashes. We put them on the wagon, 

 and the greater part of them were sold in about 

 two days. We ought to have bought all he had. 

 When I asked him how he managed to keep them 

 until the middle of February he said it was a very 

 easy matter when one has learned how. The 

 squashes must be picked before they are frosted In 

 the least. They must be handled like eggs, and put 

 in a dry room upstairs, where it will not freeze. It 

 will not do to put them in the cellar. Cellars are 

 too damp, and mostly too warm. Keep them in a 

 dry cool room as near freezing as you can, and yet 

 not have them freeze. Now, friends, we have had 

 this same state of affairs winter after winter. Hub- 

 bard squashes are quoted in Cleveland at 2 cts. per 

 lb., or $4ii.(MJ a Loir", and you could make lots of money 



if you got only $5.00 a ton. If you want to try it, 

 we have an extra nice lot of seed at a very low 

 price, especially if wanted in quantity. See price 

 of seeds for 189", on another page. 



GOOD ONIONS ARE WORTH A DOLLAR A BUSHEL. 



This is another thing to rejoice the heart of the 

 farmer and gardener. One of the largest onion 

 firms in the United States is here in Medina C<>. In 

 fact, their crop last year was so great that it receiv- 

 ed a kindly recognition in the Agricultural Reports 

 at Washington. Well, after much care and pains 

 they brought their whole crop through the terrible 

 blizzard of the last week of January. In a pleasant 

 letter from one of the firm a few days ago he re- 

 marked chat they wei'e getting a dollar a bushel for 

 their large fine Red Wethersflelds; andif you will 

 consult the market reports you will find that onions 

 are from $3.50 to $3.50 a barrel in all our large cities. 

 Good ! Now, friends, there is going to be a scarcity 

 until the new crop is gathered. Ptrhaps there 

 never was a better opening for onions started under 

 glass. Fix up your greenhouses; get your hot-beds 

 and cold-frames going, and get in some onion seeds 

 straightway. See the low prices we quote you in 

 this issue. 



SEED POTATOES AS PREMIUMS FOR SUBSCRIBING TO 

 GLEANINGS. 



Now it is near to planting-time, please remember 

 that everybody who sends us $1.00 for Gleanings, 

 past, present, or future, may have, as a premium, 1 

 lb. of Thoroughbred potatoes for every dollar he 

 sends us, or 2 lbs. of any other kind in the list. Still 

 further, if any present subscriber will get us a new 

 name, that is, will get Gleanings going into some 

 neighborhood where it is not now going, we will 

 give him a peck of Thoroughbreds or y^ bushel of 

 any of the other kinds. Of course, you must pay 

 the shipping charges. If any of you like small po- 

 tatoes for planting, you may have just twice the 

 quantity of seconds. See revised prices below: 



Varieties are in order as 

 regards time of matur- 

 ing; earliest first, next 

 earliest second.and so on. 



White Bliss Triumph ( 



E. Thoro'bred, Maule's* 



Early Ohio 



Early Norther 



Burpee's Extra Early 



Freeman 



New Queen 



Sir William 16 



Carman No. 1 12 



Carman No. 3 15 



Koshkononp 15 



Manum's Enormous 15 



New Craig 15 



J 2 50 

 6 00 

 2 00 

 1 50 



2 00 

 2 00 

 2 60 

 2 50 



*. 50 strong eyes, by mail, postpaid, $1.00. 



We can furnish seconds of the Thoroughbred, 

 Burpee, Freeman, New Queen, Sir William, Carman 

 No. 1, and New Craig, at luilf the above prices. All 

 the others are sold out. Please note that this low 

 price on seconds does not apply to potatoes sent by 

 mail postpaid. 



THE NEW QUEEN AS AN EARLY POTATO. 



In our experiments last year the New Queen gave 

 good early potatoes almost if not quite as soon as 

 any of the extra earlies. The quality was also, and 

 is now, next to the Freeman. Furthermore, it is 

 less liable to scab than any other potato known, on 

 our Medina clay soil. LHst, but not least, it gave 

 us the enormous crop of 375 bushels per acre, right 

 through a pretty good-sized field. Now let me call 

 your attention to the low price at which we offer 

 this splendid early potato— only $1.35 a barrel; and 

 if you care to plant medium-sized and small pota- 

 toes, we offer some extra nice seconds at only 63 cts. 

 per barrel. At these prices the New Queen is per- 

 haps as good a potato for table use as you can find. 

 Our low price is not because they are in any respect 

 behind the others, but because we have almost a 

 thousand bushels to dispose of. Please notice in 

 the table our drop in the prices of Thoroughbred, 

 Burpee's Extra Early, Freeman, Sir William, and 

 Carman No. 3. 



