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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 15 



FIG 2 —PAPAYA, OR MELON-TREE OF THE TROPICS-THE TREE THAT BEARS DELICIOUS 

 MUSKMELONS EVERY MONTH IN THE YEAR. 



Mrs. Shumard and the writer's wife had 

 linown each other in girlhood days. 



Our constant companion, the camera, was 

 put to action, and No. 1 gives us the four 

 members of the Shumard family at home that 

 day. Sorry we could not have them all, as 

 I remember there are seven children with 

 their home on the island. The bay (not 

 shown in the picture) is in the foreground. 



We saw Bro. Root's cottage under the live- 

 oaks, draped with moss, and where he raised 

 his poultry, and gave us so many insti'uctive 

 lessons thereon. Back of his house about 

 twenty rods is the gulf rolling up its surges. 

 We saw also the Florida greennouse we heard 

 of in Gleanings, and the plants were thrifty 

 at the time of our visit. 



No. 3 is a papaya, or melon-tree, with its 

 fruit, that stands in the yard, and it was our 

 privilege to sample the fruit therefrom, and 

 can say it is all right. 



Arrangements were made for a later date 

 for the ladies to renew their girlhood ac- 

 quaintances, and the day fixed proved to be 

 the thirty-fourth wedding anniversary of the 

 hosts, and the day spent at that time was the 

 one referred to by Bro. Root in Gleanings 

 on page 498, and one we shall long remember 

 for Christian friendship and fellowship. 



Later it was ours to have Bro. Root with 

 us in our temporary home, and with him vis- 

 it the far-famed nurseries of the Reasoner 



Bros., where we met a family that was for- 

 merly of the Root Co.'s forces, the West- 

 wells. It was ours to meet many bee-men 

 from different parts of the country, and we 

 found them all to be men worth knowing. 

 Philo, Ills. 



ORANGE-BLOSSOM HONEY. 



Apiary in California Averages over a Hun- 

 dred Pounds per Colony. 



BY FRANK McNAY. 



One of my apiaries is located within a few 

 rods of a large orange grove ( over 3000 acres 

 in easy range). One ordinary colony in a 

 twelve-frame Langstroth two-story hive 

 showed, by the scales, a gain of 119 lbs. in 

 17 days, April 7 to 33. There are over 100 

 such colonies in this apiary. A few of them 

 yielded a little more at each extracting than 

 the scale hive. 



This apiary worked exclusively on orange 

 during these 17 days. White sage was not 

 yet in bloom, and there is no button or early 

 sage in range of this apiary; and apiaries 

 that were in button-sage locations were do 

 ing nothing at that time, as the weather was 

 not warm enough. Sage requires quite warm 

 weather to yield honey. 



The scale showed that nearly all of this 

 orange honey was secured in about five 



