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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



August, 1922 



simple that anyone can use it. Articles can he 

 mended from the bottom or sides as well as from 

 the top because the heat will draw the Reijarall 

 Metal right into the crack [true, because it is 

 sulphur, and not a metal]. Now used by thou- 

 sands of garages and endorsed and used by the 

 U. S. Government Aviation Repair Dept. on Air- 

 plane Motors. Fine for repairing most any sort 

 of household utensils. An investment of 85c may 

 save vou as many dollars. Absolutely guaranteed. 

 [Guaranteed, but by whom?] Shipping weight, 

 about 1 lb. Regular price $1.50. Our cash price 

 per package, 85c. 



The aluminum dust I have mentioued 

 costs $1.00 a pound, and the sulphur 10 to 

 15 cents; so the mixture costs less than 75 

 cents a pound. Now, the little stick I 

 bought on the fairground cost me 25 cents, 

 and weighed only ^/i of an ounce, for both 

 aluminum and sulphur are very light. How 

 is that for profit — $1.00 an ounce for some- 

 thing that cost less than $1.00 a pound? 



Blueberries in Florida. 



(Continued from page 471, July issue.) 



The writer of the above not only re- 

 turned my dollar but he sent me three quite 

 good-sized plants or trees as samples. These 

 samples pleased me so well I sent the dol- 

 lar back, and he replied as follows: 



Your letters and money received O. K. Many 

 thanks for same. I live just one-fourth mile 

 from Mr. M. A. Sapp. He is a good man and 

 has been in the berry business for 20 or more 

 years. He put out two acres of trees last week; 

 all came from the woods. Blueberry trees respond 

 to common fertilizer finely. Mr. Sapp raises 

 quite a lot of truck between the rows in his 

 young orchards. His last year's blueberry plant- 

 ing is in cabbage now ready for market and they 

 surely are fine. 



I don't care to ship any more this season, 

 but will be able to take care of all orders by 

 Dec. 1. 1922. Any thing you may publish about 

 what I have written is all right with me, for I 

 believe you want to treat the people right. We 

 have lots of low-bush blueberries also. They 

 grow on upland. W. C. Carver. 



Rt. 1, Crestview, Fla., Mar. 10, 1922. 



The two letters above would seem to indi- 

 cate that no nurseryman in Florida sends 

 out trees that are nursery-grown. The labels 

 attached to the three plants mentioned were 

 furnished by the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, and they announced that these trees 

 were free from inspection rules because they 

 came direct from the forest. About the last 

 of May Ernest and myself had the pleasure 

 of visiting the writer of the above letters 

 at the home of Mr. Sapp, mention of whom 

 was made last fall, and going over his 20 

 acres of blueberry trees. I think I might 

 call them trees, because the plantation was 

 more like an orchard than a berry field. The 

 blueberry bushes branch out much like my 

 northern currants, but T think that some 

 of them must be eight or ten feet high. 

 Almost every little branch all over the 

 twenty-acre orchard was bending with green 

 berries; in fact, I never saw such a quantity 

 of fruit on any tree or bush as I saw on 

 those blueberries. It seemed to me as if 

 some of them would have to drop off before 

 maturity, for there was hardly room for the 

 foliage. With much interest T visited the 

 two acres just put out this past spring. The 

 plants taken from the woods were cut s(}uaro 



off at about three feet high so that they 

 looked more like clubs than trees, and the 

 roots were pruned in much the same way. 

 I think they were set some eight or ten 

 feet apart. They were planted about March 

 1, and in the 60 days almost every club or 

 stub had started to grow. Some of them, 

 I think, had made a growth of a foot, and 

 not more than one in a hundred had en- 

 tirely failed. 



Now, Mr. Sapp 's wonderful success, it 

 seems to me, is due to at least three things: 

 He has a wonderful soil; in fact, he grows 

 vegetables between the rows when the trees 

 are small. Then he has a wonderful plant 

 for producing luscious berries; and, last of 

 all, he is a wonderful man. I asked him if 

 lie had any boys so his success would not 

 die when he did. I think he said he had 

 three or four. Now I am interested in find- 

 ing out whether the blueberry does as well 

 in other places and grows as big as it does 

 for Mr. Sapp. There is something peculiar 

 about that locality, I feel sure, for I saw 

 the most wonderful fig trees with a mass of 

 foliage, covered with a luxuriant growth, 

 and bearing annually great crops of fruit. I 

 think some $30 to $40 worth of figs had 

 been sold from a single tree in one season. 

 In the vicinity of Crestview there are only 

 two kinds of blueberries mentioned. The 

 one that is such a success in bearing large 

 fine berries is called the "Eabbitseye, " as 

 mentioned above. The other is a little black 

 berry growing also in the woods; but the 

 berries are small and have but little value 

 compared with the large blueberries. While 

 the New Jersey blueberries must have an 

 acid soil this rule does not seem to apply, 

 so far as I can learn, to the blueberries of 

 Walton County, Fla. My good friend Car- 

 ver has sent me a sample of the berries by 

 express; but they were so very ripe that 

 they were considerably mashed on the 

 way; and while they compare well with our 

 northern swamp-grown huckleberries, they 

 were far from being equal to the improved 

 Jersey berries. The latter have been im- 

 proved by selection so that the seeds are 

 so small that they are hardly noticed; where- 

 as the Florida berries have quite a number 

 of seeds large enough to be more or less ob- 

 iectionable. The Department of Agriculture 

 has already made mention of Mr. Sapp's 

 work in some of it.s bulletins. 

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