50 
bloom; but the pure white verbs with о 
е corolla twice as long 
b ranched тас 
THE GARDENERS’ 
tion of the honey. Bees are so crowded in a 
hive that when disease obtains a Riedie it 
r^s rapidly. 
oul Breed Unti! the last ten years 
n 
not 
The D oper 
e spr ead of the disease. 
CHRONICLE. 
[Jury 26, 1919. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
The Catalog ie of a Notable Library. 
yi is with feelings of great satisfaction that 
we record the publication С the long- looked: for | 
ien ogue of the L ibr rary the Massachi usetts 
лазе bee Boo ciety È 
The reader л еврес ially the student ati 
orticultural literature, who is interested in the 
Bibliography of the Garden knows full well the 
reputation of the Library the great America 
herticultural society. It is, as the preface 
the Catalo; tells w a collection ; 
which is believed the oldest, most com ў 
plete, and best ponte strictly hortic cultural 
ay, in the wor 
his side Е he Atlantic there a 
are 
bably ocieties of any account bad 
can boast of a йк КОТЫ library worthy of © 
the name. The Roy yal Agricult 
гаете Sonen of 
у the ral 
ibrary in ЭШ garde fi 
some ext каг reap cole = the Cai pect 
lished Soci 
hi 
e ў 
е an y Record 
cipal books are 
of the N ation al часа 
olumes, 
ia ue of which. 
published in 
The M 
contain ng titles of 41 n 
published; another followed in 1867, w 
1,290 titles, and in A a E ap ts Ca 
, formed the | 
е ye 
ears’ а erval many valu- 
able additions TEA been made, and to-da 
the members of the Society puis access to 
fewer than ,000 volumes exclusive of 
most comprehensiv ie collection of nursery- 
eedsmen’s catalogues dating back 
Fic. 25.—PLATANUS ACERIFOLIA 
E "un. 
y CHLORIS 
Bee Diseases —To become а successful bee 
үсе rvation is essential. It will be 
Seer will be 
a ap id Eod 
gs being equal, oed a profitable 
entrance m, dra win: 
out. cieni 
allow them to 296 ii a rte, outside the hive ; 
they must be destroyed by о о filth 
or е. matter should be lewa 
late near the hives. 
quilts 
VAR. HISPANICA (see p. 47). 
must take care to wash his hands and apparatus 
ranaig in any suitable disinfectant, but, as the 
erms may be carried in the clothing, it s 
be well not to handle any healthy stocks for 
few days. 
Isle f hé. Disease.—This x ysterious dis- 
ease has worked havoc among the apiaries of 
this coun try. „6 = pero noticeable in an 
in the bee not fly 
They fall. on he ашаа pad: ani 
blades of grass 
they reach the top. pem nly 
ground. At night clusters ‘of infected bees may 
e found on the ground in Acer vicinity ae the 
res. e form brood in- 
br 
other cibo 
icm colonies are attacked during 
period of ssi res 
the bees all dead 
5 with a 
lam) when the артан a the Geinfectant has 
disa , the hiv у be used again. 
G 
кш. Pomona. 
The Catalogue is arranged in two parts. 
is an alphabeti. cal list of authors and ti 
and is the one now issued. Part П. isa € 
fied arrangement of the 
subject headings, 
for distribution 
be an invaluable 
names are n he 
given заа not 
number of pages, it ilostated and in 60 
references 
zed. 
apparent on the title page of a 
it is possible, 
In the е8 itself, comprehensive a$ it 3 
