AUGUST MANAGEMENT. 



."■ is during the latter part of the hone/ flow, and often in 

 August, that mistakes are made with bees that result in 

 heavy winter losses. Those who do not observe their 

 bees closely are extremely apt to take away honey when 

 it should be left with the bees for winter. As a rule, with 

 basswood or linden the honey flow is over. True, a few 

 localities give buckwheat or golden rod and boneset 

 honey, but these even yield in but few localities, and even then rarely, so they 

 must not be depended on. Colonies run for comb honey are more apt to have 

 sufficient honey in the lower storey than those run for extracted. I make a 

 practice, as before stated, of having extra frames of honey on hand ; these are 

 reserved until I find in September that each colony has sufficient stores, when 

 the extra frames are extracted. 



A Langstroth hive, single-walled, eight frames, should weigh, without cover, 

 55 to 60 lbs., bees and all. The bees should, in other hives, have 25 lbs. of 

 honey, if not, remove, as soon as the brood is hatched, ''he combs with least 

 honey, and put the full combs of honey on the outside, closing in the remaining 

 combs. Every colony should be examined, and have a fertile queen ; if it has 

 not this it should be given one or destroyed. Many waste 25 lbs. of stores on 

 bees without a queen, and then report they do not know why their bees died* 

 they had lots of honey and no dysentery. 



R. F. HOLTERMAXN. 



A SELECTION OF HARDY ROSES. 



Mr. W. C. Werner gives the following list of varieties of roses, assorted for 

 color, in the journal of the Columbus Horticultural Society for March, 1893 : 



Crimson and Dark Red. — Alfred Colomb, Gen. Jacqueminot, Prince 

 Camille de Rohan, Xavier Oliba, Madam Chas. Wood, Marshall P. Wilder, 

 Marie Bauman, Ulrich Brunner. 



Rose Color. — John Hopper, Paul Neyron, Victor Yerdier, Caroline de 

 Sansal, Magna Charta. 



Pink and Light Rose. — La France, Anna de Diesbach, Silver Queen, 

 Baroness de Rothschild, Mrs. J. H. Laing. 



White. — Coquettes des Alpes, Coquette des Blanches, Madam Alfred de 

 Rougement. 



Produce well put up is half sold because the buyer will be quickly tempted 

 to purchase whit looks neat, clean and attractive. 



