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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 1. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



PUTTY-BULB. 



For setting glass for greenhouses: also used as an 

 insect-powder gun. The price will be 25 cts. instead 

 of 15 as formerly. By mail, 5 cts. more. 



NEST-EGGS OF POLISHED WOOD. 



These are considerably cheaper; in fact, we can 

 quote them 10 for 10 cts.; 100, 75 cts. If wanted by 

 mail, only \V 2 cts. each additional for postage. 



ADVANCE IN PRICE OF COLD-FRAME OR HOT-BED SASH. 



The present price will he, one sash in the flat, for 

 sample, without glass, 85 cts.; five in the fiat, 80 cts. 

 each; 10 in the flat, 75 cts. each. Glass. 8x10, just right 

 for the above, per box of 00 lights. $3.00. 



ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OF PEAS. 



Both Alaska and Premium Gem will be, instead of 

 the catalog price, y 2 pint, 5 cts.; quart, 15 cts.; peck, 

 $1.00; bushel, S3 50. American Wonder will he: V 2 pint, 

 8 cts.; quart, 20 ct^;.; peck, SI. 25; bushel, 84 50. All oth- 

 er kinds will be as in the catalog. 



WAX BEANS, SCARCE AND HIGH-PRICED. 



You will find almost all kind^ of wax beans and 

 snap heaus of any sort quoted in the catalogs at SI. 50 

 to SO. 00 a bushel; and a good many times when you 

 send an order the seedsman says he can not send any, 

 even at that price. I know, hecause I have been try- 

 ing to buy them for our Florida customers. But we 

 have just now purchased 11 bushels of Davis wax 

 beans directly from Eugene Davis the originator. 

 We can furnish these, while they last, for only $4.25 

 per bushel. For smaller quantities, see our catalog. 

 We have also received from friend Davis two bushels 

 of red kidney beans. Price S3 00 per bushel. 



GRAND RAPIDS LETTUCE SEED. 



We have just purchased from the grower 25 lbs. of 

 extra nice new seed. Price will be, ounce, 5 cts.; lib., 

 50 cts.; 5 lbs., $2.00. 



Since the above lot was purchased, we have had an 

 opportunity of testing the seed, and know that almost 

 every seed will grow. As we go to press it is just put- 

 ting out its second leaves, and we believe it is about as 

 true a strain of Grand Rapids as any thing we have 

 ever sold. 



Now is the time for starting lettuce to be grown un- 

 der glass. A few days ago, on one of my recent 

 wheelrides near Berea, Cuyahoga Co., O., I noticed 

 three fair-sized greenhouses side by side, and they 

 were all used entirely for growing Grand Rapids let- 

 tuce. The proprietor, pointing to the beautiful crop, 

 said to me, with commendable pride, "This has all 

 been grown without a bit of heat except what came 

 from the sun. Look ! there is not a green fly; and 

 where you use sun heat and nothing else you won't 

 have any." I mention this for the benefit of those 

 whr live far enough south s-o they can grow a crop al- 

 most (if not entirely) without the aid of either flue, 

 steam, or hot water. 



LEE'S FAVORITE POTATO. 



Since prices were given in table in our issue for Nov. 

 1, we have purchased of a neighbor a lot of Lee's Fa- 

 vorite. Our experiment station pronounces these, 

 while not quite as early as the Early Ohio, very much 

 more prolific, and No. 9 in quality, Snowflake being 

 No. 10. In consequence of having bought them low 

 we can make the price on these, peck, 25 cts ; % bush- 

 el, 40 cts.: bushel, 75 cts ; barrel, $2 00. This low price 

 is only for immediate orders. The stock will not 

 probably hold out very long at this price. 



MAULE'S COMMERCIAL. 



This potato is remarkable for its great yield and 

 large size. T. B Terry, of Hudson, Ohio, on his first 

 attempt, grew something like two bushels from one 

 potato; and these two bushels were, some of them, 

 just immense. I paid $10.00 for a single potato just 

 two years ago, and from that one potato harvested 

 this season 40 bushels. Of course, I had the green- 

 house to aid me the first winter ; and among the 40 

 bushels there were quite a few that weighed over 2 

 lbs. each. It is real fun to see these great potatoes 

 puff up the ground along in the fall when they com- 

 mence all at once to expand and swell out. Had it 

 not been for the severe drouth I think my crop might 



have been doubled. If this potato were as handsome 

 in shape as Carman No. 3 I should consider my 40 

 bushels worth $10.00 each. Perhaps in different soil 

 the shape might be better. So far as my expetience 

 goes they are not only great, but awkward-shaped, and 

 have, perhaps, the deepest eyes of any potato we grow. 

 Very few reports have come in from the seed we sold 

 last spring, so far; but here is one of them that indi- 

 cates they are great yielders in other localities also: 



I raised 2 l / 2 bushels from the 2 lbs. of Commercial 

 which I got of 5'ou last spring. Mont Wyrick. 



Cascade, Iowa, Oct. 26. 



SEED POTATOES AS PREMIUMS. 



Any one sending SI. 00 for Gleanings, and asking 

 for no other premium, may have 25 cents' worth of 

 potatoes. And any one who is a subscriber, and who 

 sends us $1.00 and one new name may have 50 cents' 

 worth of potatoes; but if the potatoes are wanted by 

 mail the subscriber must pay postage. Please notice 

 we give potatoes as premiums, but we can not afford 

 to give postage stamps. 



The most important novelties in potatoes for 1900 

 are the two new ones. Commercial and Russet. Fifty 

 cents' worth of these would be one peck. Of course, 

 these would have to go by express unless you are or- 

 dering other goods, when the potatoes could go with 

 them by freight. But for the benefit of those who 

 want just enough by mail to test them, or to get a 

 start, we will send l / 2 lb. by mail postpaid of either of 

 the above to any subscriber, old or new, who pays for 

 Gleanings one year in advance ; or we will send l / 2 

 lb. postpaid by mail to any subscriber who sends $1 00 

 for arrearage on Gleanings, providing he mentions 

 it when sending the money or making the order. Of 

 course, we do not fend potatoes to anybody unless he 

 says he wants to have them. Now, then, friends, ev- 

 erybody who takes Gleanings can have enough po- 

 tatoes to get a start, free of charge, of either of the 

 above two kinds. Please do not ask us to send some- 

 thing else on these terms, because we are going to 

 have a great lot of these done up in J^-lb. packages 

 ready to mail; but we shall not have the other kinds 

 thus put up, a large lot at a time. 



ORDERING POTATOES NOW. 



Of course, it is risky business shipping potatoes any- 

 where in December — that is, if you want as many as 

 a barrel or more ; but if you wish to send in your or- 

 ders now to secure them before we run out of certain 

 kinds, we will set them aside for you, and guarantee 

 their safe keeping till next April. Then we will guar- 

 antee safe delivery from freezing. We mention this 

 because many kinds are sold out already. See new 

 table. We can, however, send half a bushel or a 

 smaller quantity any time during winter by taking 

 extra pains in packing. Potatoes by mail go any- 

 wheie any day in the year, without any danger of 

 freezing — at least we have never had any losses, that 

 we remember, in sending by mail all winter long. 



Name. 



Varieties are in order as 

 regards time of matur- 

 ing; earliest first, next 

 earliest second, and so on. 



Red Bliss Triumph 



Bovee 



Lee's Favorite 



E. Thoro'bred, Maule's. 



Early Ohio 



Burpee's Extra Early. . . 



Freeman 



New Queen 



Maule's Commercial 



Mill's Prize 



Carman No. 1 



Carman No .3 



Sir Walter Raleigh 



New Russet 



Manum's Enormous... . 

 New Craig. 



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* 3 00 

 3 00 

 2 00 



2 50 



3 00 

 3 00 

 3 00 



2 50 



3 50 

 2 00 

 2 50 

 2 50 



2 50 



3 50 

 3 00 

 3 00 



Seconds of any of the above will be half price. 



We have sold out the seconds of the following kinds 

 of potatoes: Triumph, Bovee, Carman No. 3, Lee's 

 Favorite, and Russet. 



Please notice there are no seconds at half price in 

 potatoes postpaid by mail. The principal part of the 

 price of potatoes by mail is for postage stamps ; and 

 Uncle Samuel does not have any second quality of 

 postage stamps that he sells at half price. Another 

 thing, when you go to the expense of paying postage 

 on potatoes, you will naturally be supposed to want 

 the very best and nicest that can be picked out. 



