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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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them to fill themselves and also start brood 
rearing. I never advise setting bees on their 
summer stands for anything more than a 
cleansing flight until the Soft Maple trees are 
in blossom; then I always remove mine from 
their winter-quarters for good. 
The enfeebled condition of bees this Spring 
will make all the more pains necessary to pre¬ 
vent death by spring dwindling. Crowding 
the bees on to a few combs, covering warmly, 
and judicious stimulation by feeding daily a 
very little warm sirup directly above the 
cluster, will aid greatly to prevent further 
loss. 
Bees that have been wintered on their 
summer stands will require a little looking 
after when warm weather comes. If the 
colony has dwindled badly, it should be united 
with some other stock, or the brood chamber 
should be contracted with a division board. 
As soon as it is warm enough to handle them, 
say, by the time the snow is all gone, you 
should take a new, clean hive, and go to the 
first colony, carefully lift each frame out and 
put it in the new or clean hive, being careful 
to give each frame the same position it occu¬ 
pied in the old hive. Now clean this empty 
hive thoroughly, and then put some other 
colony in it, and so on through the whole 
affair. Handling bees in this manner gives an 
excellent opportunity to equalize their stores, 
giving to those short of honey a frame from 
some stock that has more than it will require; 
place this frame just outside of the cluster, 
Be sure your bees are always supplied with 
plenty of provisions, and a dry, clean hive, 
and are well protected from the cold. 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
Parlous. 
STRAY NOTES. 
Once in a while the Rural contains so 
many good things in one issue that I wish I 
had time to notice them, but I can only allude 
to a late number. 
Theory vs. Practice.— Dr. Sturtevant 
tells us that his experiments “indicate clearly 
that iu order to increase our yield of potatoes 
it is only necessary, in digging our crop, to 
expose the hills separately and then go 
through and select our seed potatoes from 
those hills which show the most abundant 
crop.” To which your correspondent. Rustic 
(not Ed.) adds the valuable intelligence that 
the “potato growers of this country if they 
would follow this advice, would receive ten 
times more benefit each year than the entire 
cost of the experiment stations,” and more of 
the same sort about picking out the vigorous 
hills, etc. In the next page er two, a practi¬ 
cal man like Peter Henderson, is quoted as 
demolishing all such nonsense. Thanks to 
his pen for doing so. We have too much 
theory and too little “intelligent” practice. 
Russian Apples.— The London Horticul¬ 
tural Society left no stone unturned to intro¬ 
duce the best Russian apples. No doubt there 
are plenty of them, but we long ago had all 
the best, the rest are only rubbish except in 
arctic regions where, I suppose, a miserable 
apple is better than none. We don’t want 
Chinese pears or Russian applet unless as 
good as Red Astracbau. If you will get a 
mellow Northern Spy, or Baldwin, or even 
Williams from Russia, bring it along, and we 
will give it a good welcome. Wo have bad 
enough of the Kieffer type; anybody can 
understand why the New Orleans cultivators 
expressed an opinion against them; because 
it is completely impossible to grow a fruit in 
an arctic region that should be as valuable as 
those raised lu a temperate zone. All the lus¬ 
cious fruits are from the tropical or semi 
tropical regions. Nature never intended to 
produce the most delicious fruits iu a Summer 
of six weeks’ duration. 
Canna Ehremanil— I thought the Rural 
did not live in the woods, but your notice of 
that magnified Canna iuduces me to think you 
do. Only think of seeing a canua in a green¬ 
house, that has been the grand Summer orna¬ 
ment of all good collections around Boston for 
five or 6ix years, and chronicled at this late 
day its “an acquisition of vast merit,” as it 
was years ago. This Canna was introduced by 
me in 1879, when I visited Paris, sent to me 
through the kindness of a French cultivator 
with other kindly gifts. Two years ago I 
supplied a New Yorker with nearly all my 
stock. Grand a* it is, not very purple, but 
crimson seurlet,it is superseded by a newer aud 
finer one, C. Newtoni. iu the same style, but 
with much more brilliant flowers. 'Both of 
them are so fine that one of the leading florists, 
in England has bought up almost all the stock 
“} Europe. 1 will setul you a good root of C 
Ehromannii for trial even at this late day, in 
the Rural grouuds. c. it. hovky. 
Remarks: —It has been four or five years 
since we have given any attention to Caunas. 
V\ e grew a little tired of them because they 
were used so freely in every garden or so-called 
‘tropical” bed. Canna Ehemannii (Mr, Hovey 
spells it Ehretnanuiij is placed in many of the 
Spring catalogues as a novelty.— Eds. 
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