Linden or basswood The European tree worthless for honey, infested with worms and
not near so beautiful as the American which yields abundant supplies of the nicest
honey. It ought to be extensively cultivated as a shade tree and ornamental. 
Lighting of bees. Caught wingless, Queen bees swarming, in two instances
the bees had not lit anywhere, put them on twig of a low
[illegible]. In each instance in a few moments the whole swarm
came to them and clustered around the twig 
Life of Italian workers, duration of. 
September 14th 1865 Mr Adam Grimm of Jefferson, Jefferson County, Wisconsin, correspondent
of the Bienenzeitung, furnishes me the following facts as to length of life of
Italian worker bees. August 1st 1864 introduced probably mismatched Ligurian young Queen to a
good stock of black bees just deprived of its Queen. In January 1865 examined the stock, found
capped drone brood hump backed in worker comb, reared little drones up to the 20th of April,
having their drone brood in three combs. It was then transferred from the old box to a slotted hive and a
sealed Italian cell given to them from another stock. The Queen hatched so as to become fertile
May 5th. At this time there were no black bees left in the stock, but only the hybrid workers
which the young queen mismated Queen had produced, before she became a drone layer. 
The stock was strong enough to raise brood in five combs for this second Queen, the brood
in the two outside combs being about the size of the hand (length of the slots about 16 inches
depth 10 inches). This stock recovered so rapidly that it threw a fair swarm on
the 11th of July and after swarming filled its hive. October 16th 1864 at same time August 1st 1864 he
introduced to another good Black stock just deprived of its Queen, an Italian Queen which
in spring March was found to be a drone layer, never having produced workers. This colony
had a new Italian queen cell given to it the same day with the one first mentioned, which hatched
and was impregnated the same day with the other one. This last stock had dwindled
down so much that it could only cover two small pieces of brood in two combs and
it did not become strong in winter until the close of the summer and has not now filled
its hive as the well as the one first mentioned which swarmed Linden. William
Wolf and John Roster of Jefferson can testify to the above facts.