1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



527 



CONDUCTED BY 



Rev. Emerson T, A.bbott, St. Joseph, AIo. 



Bees and Pollen.—" If bees carry pollen from 

 bloom to bloom of the orange and peach, as they do in many 

 other kinds of fruit, why does not the seed produce trees bear- 

 ing different varieties of f ruit ?"— Mrs. Haeeison, on page 

 391. 



Because in many cases the pollen of one variety is not 

 potent on the other, but in some cases it is. A gentleman told 

 the writer of a circumstance where a person planted ten apple 

 seeds in pots in the house, the seeds all being taken from one 

 apple. The trees produced from these ten seeds bore as many 

 different varieties of fruit as there were trees. 



The peaches produced from the seed would be nearly like 

 the ones from which the seeds were taken, provided they were 

 not grafted or budded fruit. In that case, of course, they 

 would be like the fruit of the root upon which the graft was 

 made. This, however, could not be absolutely true, if fertil. 

 ized by pollen from a blossom of a different variety, as the 

 female germ must be influenced more or less by the male germ 

 with which it unites. The resulting fruit should be more or 

 less modified by the combination of the two potent forces. 

 Theoretically, at least, this should influence the seed some- 

 what; and, if there is any truth iu the circumstance men- 

 tioned above, this is true practically. In fact, if I mistake 

 not, there is a berry grown in California, called the " Logan 



Berry," which is the result of a cross between the blackberry 

 and the raspberry. 



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Large Blue Flag. — Though this flower is of no 

 special importance to the bee-keeper as a honey-plant, yet we 

 think the readers of the Bee Journal will be interested in what 

 Mrs. Starr Dana has to say about it in her book, "How to 

 Know the Wild Flowers," which was reviewed in this depart- 

 ment on page 495. I make the following extract : 



" For the botanist the blue flag possesses special interest. 

 It is a conspicuous example of a flower which has guarded it- 

 self against self-fertilization, and which is beautifully cal- 

 culated to secure the opposite result. The position of the 

 stamens is such that their pollen could not easily reach the 

 stigmas of the same flower, for these are borne on the inner 

 surface of the petal-like, overarching styles. There is no 

 prospect here of any seed being set unless the pollen of an- 

 other flower is secured. Now what are the chances in favor 

 of this? They are many. In the first place, the blossom is 

 unusually large and showy, from its size and shape alone al- 

 most certain to arrest the attention of the passing bee ; next, 

 the color is not only conspicuous, but it is also one which has 

 been found to be particularly sought by these insects. When 

 the bee reaches the flower he alights on the only convenient 

 landing-place, one of the recurved sepals ; following the deep 

 purple veins which experience has taught him lead to the hid- 

 den nectar, he thrusts his head below the anther, brushing ofiE 

 its pollen, which he carries to another flower." 



Mrs. Dana, like many others, does not seem to have found 

 out that the worker-bee is a female, but we can excuse her 

 for this since she has come to our aid in helping to demon- 

 strate, the importance of cross-fertilization. 



ITALIAN QUEENS 



Untested, July to Oct.. 75c. eacli— 3 for 

 $2.00. 



Tested Queens, $1.00 each. 

 By ret»rn mail. Satisfaction Guaranteed 



Send for Free Illustrated Circular to 



THEODORE BENDER, 



28Atf 18 Fulton St., CANTON, OHIO. 

 Merdion the American Bee Juumal. 



THROm 



AND LUNQ DISEASES, 

 DR. PEIRO. Specialist 

 Offices: IOI9, lOO State St., 

 CHICAGO. Hours 9 to 4. 



Hr* AnVlivi 1024 Mississippi St 

 . \Jt ACKiin, St. Paul, nilun. 



Northwestern Agent For 



The A. I. Root Co.'s Apiarian Supplies 



Send for I BEES AND Queens 



Priee-List | For Sale. 



2 1 A 1 7 HIentUm the American Ber JcmrnaiL 



$1.00 PRIZE 



Will be g^iven to the person sending us a 

 Golden or Leather-Colored Italian Queen 

 whose workers will store the most Comb 

 Honey next season. A report will be giv- 

 en in the Bee Journal; the amount of the 

 2nd and 3rd will be given also. 



Send at once. AH have an equal chance 

 to win. Send Queens before Sept. 15th. 



GILBERT BKOS., 



EAST AVON, Liv. Co.. N. Y. 

 33 A 1 1 Mention the Aimtrican Bee JoumaL 



Promptness Is What Counts ! 



Honey-Jars. Shipping-Cases, and every- 

 thing that bee-keepers use. Root's 

 Ooods at Root's Prices, and the 



best shipping point in the country. 

 Dealer in Honey and Beeswax. Cata- 



iTrJalAve. fl^alter S. Pouder 



INDIANAPOLIS. IND. 

 Mention the Ameriam liee Jcnvmat 



Bee-Keeper's Guide— see page 528. 



C^ctfcrBd Mcn}s^ 



No Failure in Seven Tears. 



It is seldom we see anything in any of 

 the bee-papers from our part of the coun- 

 try, so I will say we are just " rolling in the 

 honey" — in the wheelbarrow. We have 

 about 325 colonies, 70 of which we work for 

 extracted honey. Burt, who is not yet 

 quite 16 years old, does nearly all the out- 

 side work, and helps with the inside work, 

 too. He folds and '■ starters" all the sec- 

 tions, does all the uncapping, and much of 

 the extracting ; helps take out and care for 

 comb honey, and, in fact, is our main ''bee- 

 man." 



While Dr. Miller's bees are taking a rest, 

 he had better come over and help us : but 

 then we do not use T-tin supers. 



This is our seventh summer here, and 

 there has not been a single failure to pro- 

 duce a good crop. Mrs. Lucr C. Slease. 



Rosswell, New Mex., July 34. 



Small Crop — Five-Banded Bees. 



I have so small a crop of honey this year 

 that I have no fear of its breaking the mar- 

 ket if reported. When the season began 

 we had a good outlook for a large crop of 

 honey. The freezes in May killed the bass- 

 wood buds, and was very damaging to the 

 clovers of all kinds. The hot, dry weather 

 rushed the season so fast that it closed July 

 6, and the result is one of the shortest crops 

 of honey we ever get, when we get any. 



In my 43 years' experience with bees, I 

 never knew a season to close so early by Lt 

 days. All my honey was off on July 15 

 this year, and the crop counted. While, as 

 a rule, the bees are right in the midst of 



GOLDEN ITALIAN 



Queens by return mail from a breeder ob- 

 tained of Doolittle, which he selected and 

 tested out of 1 000, for his own special use ; he 

 said this Queen is a better one than the 



WORLD'S FAIR QUEEN 



which was valued at $50.00. Also 



ITALIAN QUEENS 



from one of A. I. Root's very best imported 

 breeders. Price of Queens— tjntested, 55c. ; 

 6forJ.3 00; 12 for $5.50. Tested. $1.00 each; 

 6 for $5.00. No disease. Shall run 400 nu- 

 clei. Ask for Free Circular, which may be 

 worth dollars to you, if you buy Queens. Safe 

 delivery and satisfaction will be Buaranteed 

 in each and every case. H. G. QuiRIN, 

 27D6t BELLEVUE. Huron Co., OHIO. 



Mention the American Bee Journal. 



ONE MAN WITH THE 



UNION ^''^ii,':,*^-^^ 



I an do the work of four 

 men using hand tools, in 

 Kipping, Cutting-oCf, Mi- 

 tiiag. Rabbeting, Groov- 

 ing. Gaining. Dadoing, 

 Edging-up. Jointing Stuff, 

 etc. Full Line of Foot and 

 Hand Power Machinery. 

 80I1I oa Trial. Calalo^ae Free. 

 SEKECA FAliIiS ITIPG. CO., 

 46 Water St., SENECA FALLS. N. T 



27D1» Mention the American Bee Journal. 



BF.RKSHIHE, Cheater White, 

 Jersey Bed and Poland Chtok 

 PIGS. Jersev, Guernsey and 

 Bolstein Catlie. Thoroogbbred 

 Sheep. Fancy Poultry. Hunting 

 and Hoose Dogs. CaUlogue. 

 Tllle, Cheater Co.. Pensa. 



Mention the American Bee Journal. 



THE BOTTOM IS OUT 



For the next 60 days we will sell 



Warranted Purely-Mated Queens 



At 55 cts. each; 6 for.$:j.OO. Tested, 75 cts.; 

 6 for $4.00. All Queens sent by return mail. 

 Satisfaction guaranteed. Address. 



liEIININGER BROS.. 

 33Ktf FT. JENNINGS, OHIO. 



WHEN ANSWERING THIS AOVEHnSEMENT, MENTION THIS JOURNAL. 



