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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 1. 



BLACKWALNUTS AND HICKORYNUTS. 



As we are not S'>ld out, we thought best to re- 

 mind the frunds that, when ordering goods by 

 freight, we will put you in a peck of nice hulled 

 blackwalnuts for only 10 cts , or a peck of nice 

 shellhark liickorynu s for only 3i cts. Of course, 

 we can ship them bv themselves if you wish, but it 

 will hardlv pay to send a peck of blackwalnuts cost- 

 ing only iO cts., alone, when tlie freight would be 

 considerably more than that. 



FORCING ASPARAGUS. 



We are just now gathering our first crop, grown 

 under glass without heat. Tlie plants were put a 

 foot apart in a bed wide enougli to receive sash. 

 They have been growing strong for two years past. 

 The glass was first put on tl)e l ed about the first of 

 March, and now we luive beautiful sh ots 6 inches 

 long, two or three weeks in advance of any that 

 may he expected in the open air. This two or three 

 weeks, however, enables us to get 4ii cts. per lb. for 

 what would otherwise have been only about 10 cts. 



YELLOW NANSEMOND, OR JERSEY SWEET POTATOES 



As it is now about time 1o bed tliese for plants, 

 we can furnish ilie potatoes as follow>: lib., by 

 mail, 15 cts.; 1 peck, :J5 cts.; Vi bushel, 40 cts.; 1 

 bushel, 76 cts. ; barrel, if:J.25. 



EARLY PEABODY RED YAMS. 



These gave such excellent saiisfaction last year 

 that we shall offer plants and potatoes for sale this 

 seas-on. Prices of potatoes: lib., by mail, 20 i ts.; 

 31bs. by mail. 50 cts.; )^ peck, 40 cts.; peck,60cts.; 

 bushel, $2 00; barrel, $4.50. 



Prices of bunch yams and vineless sweet potatoes 

 same as Early Ptabody red yams. See page 256. 



OUR SQUASH-BOXES FOR FORCING STRAWBERRIES. 



The squash-box whicli we have several times de- 

 scribed, with a pane of glass to slide in the top, is a 

 splendid thing for raising choice strawberries. It 

 gives tliem plenty of liglit, protects them entirely 

 from the hard freezing nights in the fore part of 

 A|iril, and the glass neid not be moved at all. So 

 large a part of the area is shade, and so little glass, 

 it never gets so liot at this season of the year as to 

 injure the plants. We are using quite a number of 

 them on chi)ice varieties tli:it we are very anxious 

 to have make runners just as fast as possible. 



ONIONS AND LETTUCE DURING THE CLOSING DAYS 

 OF MARCH. 



Day before yesterday some one came over from 

 the train, and otdered 25 lbs. of lettuce and two 

 dozen bundles of onions: yesteidaya like amount 

 went in the same direction, and another similar 

 order came to-day We packed the lettuce in a new 

 lya-bushel basket, costing 15 cents. We got for the 

 lettuce 1214 cts. per lb., or for basket and all about 

 $3.00. For the onions we got 3 cts. a bunch. A bunch 

 of onions at this season is 5 oz. Now, we did not 

 have to peddle these tilings, and did not have to 

 hunt a market. 1 presume some one saw our nice- 

 looking stuff while he was passing tlirough on the 

 trains, so he came to us for it. When a gardener 

 can so nandlehls business, and produce garden stuff 

 so choice tliat people come to his place of business 

 and take all the stuff he can raise, and carry it 

 away, then he is right up in '• high-pressure garden- 

 ing"— providing, of course, he gets a price that will 

 pay. I am quite well satisfied with the above prices. 

 The lettuce was, of course, grown under glass, but 

 the onions \fere right out in ihe open air, where 

 they have stood for the past five or six yeirs, with 

 almost no attention at all except an annual mulch- 

 ing of manure 



In our sub-irrigated bed. where we had those fine 

 strawberries a year ago, we got a basketful of let- 

 tuce ($3 GO) from under a single sash. How is that 

 for high-pressure gardening? 



"VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS." 



We are having a big demand for this little book 

 by H. A. Dreer, and it is well that there should be. 

 But one unfortunate part of it is, by some blunder 

 of the writer the pr ce as given in our seed catalog 

 is 15 cts. —3 cts extra for postage If sent by mail, 

 when it should be 20 cts., and postage 3 cts. extra. 

 Ten thousand seed catalogs were sent out before 

 the mistake was noticed. We can not well write to 

 our customers and tell them there was a mistake, 



for only 5 cents. And then here is another dilemma: 

 If I mention the matter here in print, it just calls 

 attention to the fact that you can get the neat little 

 book for 15 cents if you just send the money and 

 don't say any thing about it. I don't see any way 

 out unless 1 buy lOtO at once, and by this means 

 succeed in getting them at so low a figutetliat 1 can 

 afford to sell them for 15 cts. Remember, if you get 

 them at this low price j ou niust send 3 <,'ts. moie 

 for postage if wanted by mail. For many yeais we 

 have been making a distinction in price on bool-s 

 between having them sent by freight or express 

 with othtr goods, or i>08i paid by mail. It has al- 

 ways seemed to me unfair to cliarge a man the price 

 of the bO( k postpaid, wtien he does not pay an" 

 postage on it at all: and yt t this is the way th.i 

 greater part of the book publishers have been doing 

 for yeai's past. I notice also another blunder in tho 

 price of the standard work, ' Gaideniiig for Profit," 

 by Peter Hendcisou. The new price of tliis hook is 

 $1.35; 12 cts. lor postage if wanttd liy mail. The 

 price given in tliat uutortunate seed catah g is $1.85. 

 The latter is the publisher s price. Tlie lower one 

 is the price re.:enily made. 1 suppose the icai-on 

 why your old fil iid made so m:iny blunders was be- 

 cause he wa> oliliged to correct the seed and book 

 cata og when he had not quite recovered from bis 

 recent attack of grip. 



TWO THOUSAND BUSHEl B OF SEFD POTATOES TO BE 

 GIVEN TO OLD SUBSCHIBERS. 



It looks just now as if we should have a great sur- 

 plus of poiaioes, as we did last year; and it we are 

 going to be obllgi'd to give them awaj we verj much 

 prefer to give them to our old subscribers, ;ind to 

 the patrons of Gleanings for years past. One or 

 two liave accused us of 1 eing more liberal to our 

 new subscribers than to our old ones. Hut that is a 

 mistake. We do not offer new subsiribers any 

 thing; but it is to our old friends who take a little 

 pains to get Gleanings introduced iii'O new locali- 

 ties and new families. Now, tlien, whoever will be 

 tlie means of gettii g GLEANl^GS started in some 

 place where it has not been gi ing before, may have 

 a dollar's worth ot potatoes lor every dollar he sends 

 us for a new subsciiber. The pei son who sends us 

 a new name must be a subscriber himself, and one 

 who has p;iid up all arrtsirajies. Every one who 

 gets a renewal, or renews himself (Hfier paiing up 

 all arrearages), can ha\e fifty cents' worth of pota- 

 toes for every dollar he sends us. Let me now re- 

 peat, so there will be no mistake: A dollar^'s worth 

 ot potati es to every one who sends a dollar for 

 Gleanings, with a new nsime; 50 cents' worth of 

 potatoes to every one who sends us a dol'ar for 

 Gleanings as a renewal one full year in advar.ce 

 for himself or somebody else; but plense take no- 

 tice. If you wiint your potatoes sent by mail you 

 must send at the rate of 10 cents per lb. for postage 

 and packing. Tl is offer refers to all the potatc es 

 enumerated in tlie list below except White Bliss 

 Triumph, Rural New-Yorker, Carman No. 3, Bur- 

 pee's Extra Early, and Manum's Enormous. What 

 stock vve have left of these will probably be sold out 

 without the necessity of giving them awjy. 



Name 



Varieties are in order as 

 regards time of matur- 

 ing:; earliest first, next 

 earliest second.and so on. 



Wliite Bliss Triumph .. 

 E Thoro'bred, Maule's 



Early Ohio 



Early Norther 



Burpee's Extra Early.. 



New yueon 



Monroe Seedling 



Rural New-Yorker No. 



Sii- William 



Carman No. 1 



Carman No. 3 



Koshkonong 



Manum's Enormous... 

 New Craig 



t 2 50 

 5 00 

 2 00 



1 50 



2 00 

 2 00 



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



We can furnish seconds of the Thoroughbred, 

 Burpee, Freemiin, New Queen, Sir William, Carman 

 No. 1, and New Cr-aig, at half the above prices. All 

 the others (seconds) are sold out. Pleas.^ note that 

 this low pt ice on seconds does not apply to potatoes 

 sent by mail postpaid. 



