TULIP TREE 
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Mike Wall, Tempe, Ariz., and pile of odd-sized frames from which he had cut the comb and fitted them 
into Langstroth frames. 
portant that the queen enter the cluster. 
This can be determined by dumping the bees 
from the board in front of the entrance of 
the new hive. By watching carefully, it 
can be seen whether the queen goes in. If 
she is not discovered, more bees are drum¬ 
med out of the box hive, and the second 
lot is dumped in front of the entrance. If 
the queen is found this time the old box 
hive should be given enough bees to take 
care of the brood. It is then turned right 
side up, and put two feet back of the new 
hive with its entrance turned in the oppo¬ 
site direction. It is allowed to stand for 
21 days, at the end of which time all work¬ 
er brood will have emerged, and noth¬ 
ing will be left but a little drone brood. 
All bees in -the old box hive are drummed 
out in front of the new hive having an en¬ 
trance-guard. The combs in the old hive 
are melted up, and the hive itself burned. 
At the time of making the second drive 
after all the brood has emerged it would be 
advisable to smoke both lots of bees before 
uniting them, otherwise there may be con¬ 
siderable fighting. See Uniting. 
If there is no choice between the young 
queen which will be in the old box hive, and 
the old queen in the new hive, the entrance- 
guards will not be needed. One queen will 
kill the other. Generally the younger and 
better one will survive. 
TRAVEL-STAIN.— See Comb Honey. 
TULIP TREE (Liriodendron Tulipi- 
fera ).—Other vernacular names are white- 
wood and yellow poplar from the varying 
colors of the wood, canoe wood from the 
use made of it by the Indians, and saddle 
tree from the arrangement of the leaves in 
the bud. This magnificent tree belongs to 
the same family as the Magnolia, and 
among American deciduous-leaved trees is 
surpassed in size only by the plane or but¬ 
tonwood, to which it is superior in sym¬ 
metry and in the attractiveness of its fol¬ 
iage and flowers. Its height is usually from 
60 to 90 feet, but in favorable localities it 
may grow 140 to 180 feet tall, with a dia¬ 
meter of 4 to 12 feet. Michaux measured 
a tree near Louisville, Ky., which at five 
feet from the ground was 22% feet in cir¬ 
cumference and exceeded 120 feet in 
height. The tulip tree is one of the hand¬ 
somest of American ornamental trees, 
growing in a conical form, offering an ex¬ 
tensive shade, and putting forth in May or 
June an immense number of large green¬ 
ish-yellow flowers. The peculiar-shaped 
leaves easily distinguish it from all other 
