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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



P^.'.B. 15 



f^sive his life in planning- sanitary sewage 

 for Havana, assisted by Gov. Wood. Very 

 likely our electric railways are planning 

 something nice, and we hope our cities will 

 combine with them and bring- about a 

 much-needed reform. 



THE GIANT GIBRALTAR onion; SMALL GREENHOUSES, 

 ETC. 



I got one ounce of seed of vou and put out 600 in the 

 hot-bed. I thought for a while thty were not going to 

 be any good, as they ran to necks in.stead of bottoms. 

 I bent the tops down a time or two, and about half of 

 them made good large i nions. The rest of them are 

 in the garden yet. They are fine onions to eat raw, 

 very mild. 



I want to put up a small greenhouse to raise toraato- 

 p'ants and other garden-pla ts. I thought of making 

 it l(> feet long, a ! ed on each side 3 feet wide. Would 

 it do to cover it with oilcloth? And as to heat, if I put 

 a heati tie-stove in the far end, and run a stove-pipe 

 along back to the vent, would it heat it sufficiently? 

 How high would you make the bed-, and how deep? 

 I shall be thankful'for your advice. 



Dundee, Oreg. S. Minchin. 



Friend M., I do not think I would risk 

 oilcloth for your plants. It might, however, 

 do in your localitj' if you have no heavy 

 snows. Cloth is better, of course, than no 

 protection at all; but it is seldom used 

 where one has artificial heat like the stove 

 you mention. On page 29 of our book 

 "'• What to Do " is a little greenhouse of 

 that kind made of sashes. This gives a 

 p.^th through the center 2 ft. wide and about 

 3 ft. deep. The beds are about 4,;2 ft. wide. 

 ( >ne can stand up in such a structure right 

 under the ridge. We used such a green- 

 house very successfully by warming it with 

 steam-pipes. I think you would be better 

 pleased to use glass sashes than to under- 

 take to do any thing with oilcloth. Our 

 book on tomato culture gives very full di- 

 rections for using cloth-covered beds in lo- 

 calities where there is no snow and the 

 weather seldom much below the freezing- 

 point. 



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My queens took first prize at the State Fair, in Nov., 

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