. The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary. Bee culture. WHITEWOOD. 291 WHITEWOOD. ward with about as much ease as our year- and-a-half-old baby goes up stairs, whenever she can elude maternal vigilance. Up, up, I went, until, on looking down, I really be- gan to wonder what that blue-eyed baby and her mamma would do, should my clumsy boots slip, or a d
. The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary. Bee culture. WHITEWOOD. 291 WHITEWOOD. ward with about as much ease as our year- and-a-half-old baby goes up stairs, whenever she can elude maternal vigilance. Up, up, I went, until, on looking down, I really be- gan to wonder what that blue-eyed baby and her mamma would do, should my clumsy boots slip, or a dead limb break unexpected- ly. Now I was in the very summit of the tree, and, oh what a wonderful beauty I saw in those tulip - shaped blossoms that peeped from the glossy-green foliage all about me ! No wonder there was a humming. Bumble- bees, gaudy-colored wasps, yellow Italians, and last, but not least, beautifully plumaged humming-birds, were all rejoicing in a field Our friends in the South have a great deal to say about what they call " poplar honey," and, if I am correct, the poplar is the same tree which we call whitewood. It blossoms with them in April and May. I know what time it blossoms here, for I thought about its being the 27th of May, when sliding down out of that tree. A few days ago I received some bees from G. W. Gates, of Bartlett, Tenn. The combs were filled and bulged out with a dark honey, such as I have described, and the bees had built fins of snow-white comb on"] the cover of their shipping-box. From this I infer the honey must be yielded in great abundance in those. LEAF, BUD, AND BLOSSOM OF THE WHITEWOOD, Oil TULIP-TREE. of sweets. Every now and theu one of the latter paused before my very face, and, as he swung pendulously in mid air, winked his bright little eyes, as much as to say, "Why, what on earth can you be doing away up here in our domain?" I picked off the great orange-colored, mot- tled blossoms, and looked for th
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