February, 1920 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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graiulson, drove lue tliru the great city of 

 (.'leveland, Ohio. There were miles and 

 miles of automobiles, both gasoline and 

 electric. It made me think of a swarm of 

 bees; but instead of bees they wei'C auto- 

 mobiles — some of them costing many thou- 

 sands each. How about gasoline for all 

 tlie cars to come, saying- nothing about fly- 

 in <! machines f 



Well, dear friend, I am crazy still, but it 

 is not altogether bees and prohibition. Just 

 now it is electric windmills. When the 

 miners refuse to mine the coal, and the 

 gasoline of the world is gone, we are going 

 to reach up and grasp the wind and, I 

 hope, thank God for it. It is wind elec- 

 tricity that gives me the light to write this 

 long article, and a wind-propelled automo- 

 bile will probably carry it to the postoffiee. 



I am very happy just now in preparing 

 to erect my second electric windmill, and 1 

 expect it to warm the house, or help to do 

 so, and maybe do the cooking. 



OUR FLORIDA HOME; SOME GLIMPSES OF IT. 



Picture No. 1 shows two orange trees and 

 one grape-fruit tree. It also gives a glimpse 

 of the electric windmill that is always 

 " busy ; " at least it seems to be, for rarely 

 do we see it standing' still a whole hour, al- 

 tho tliere is not always wind enough to 

 store even 7 cells of the 28-cell Exide bat- 

 teries on the electric automobile. The pic- 

 ture shows only a small part of the fruit. 

 The cluster on the grape-fruit tree where 

 I stand contained about 20 fruits when we 



Tho crape-fruit tree that wouldn't die, but finally 

 gave us a single cluster of about 20 fruits. 



The Carica Papaya, with its single Lunch of 20 

 fruits ; also Wesley, the colored gardener. 



reached here in November. Picture No. 2 

 shows a closer view of this tree. It was 

 originally an orange tree, but the bud died 

 and left a strong shoot of the wild lemon. 

 One day when my neighbor Abbott was 

 over, he took out his knife and set a grape- 

 fruit bud in it. This bud grew over 10 

 feet tlie first year, and in the second it bore 

 several fruits. Later, a severe frost cut it 

 back, and we thought it was killed. How- 

 ever, it improved and now has a pretty 

 good load of fruit. 



I introduce to you No. 3 by copying from 

 a metal label sent me by the Department 

 of Agriculture on a grafted papaya, as fol- 

 lows : 



CARICA PAPAYA. 



Papaya. Rapid growing fruit tree, reaching 25 

 feet ; in ten months bears numerous melon-shaped 

 fruits on its trunk. Good varieties deliciously sweet 

 with characteristic flavor; relished as breakfast 

 fruit. Easily digested, containing powerful papain 

 ferment. Try as annual in northern Florida and 

 Texas. Easily grown in hot-house. Both sexes re- 

 quired. 



This is a well-known fruit here in Florida, 

 but it contains usually a large number of 

 seeds, which is a sort of handicap. . A mis- 

 sionary some time ago sent me a few seeds 

 of what lie called a "seedless papaya." Of 

 course, it hadn't been made entirely seed- 

 less, for how could we get seeds if so? I 

 planted the seeds, but secured only two 

 ]ilants, and providentially these two were 

 male and female. When we arrived in 

 November I was rejoiced to find the tree, 

 with a load of fruit, some 30 or 40 in all. 



