. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 459 have been translated in French, German and Italian. Mrs. Harrison is a strong, vigorous, and advanced thinker, and is a believer in the rights and privileges of v?omen. Her contributions in literature embrace not only articles on bee-culture, but like- wise on horticulture. Her first writings appeared in the Germantown Telegraph, of Philadelphia, and Coleman's Rural World, of St. Louis. The perseverance of Mrs. Harrison was rewarded, her husband's opposition ceased, and he himself became interested in the bees, helping to car
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 459 have been translated in French, German and Italian. Mrs. Harrison is a strong, vigorous, and advanced thinker, and is a believer in the rights and privileges of v?omen. Her contributions in literature embrace not only articles on bee-culture, but like- wise on horticulture. Her first writings appeared in the Germantown Telegraph, of Philadelphia, and Coleman's Rural World, of St. Louis. The perseverance of Mrs. Harrison was rewarded, her husband's opposition ceased, and he himself became interested in the bees, helping to care for them, declaring that he believed that it would add ten years to his life. For a number of years her apiary has contained about. 100 colonies. She is prevented from doing as much as she otherwise would, by ill-health and family cares, for, al- though childless, she has been a mother to several orphan children. She is best known as a writer, her many contributions to the press being marked with vigor and originality, with a blunt candor that assures one of her sincerity. She credits bee-keeping with making her life more enjoyable by open- ing up a new world, and making her more observing of plants and flowers, with which, we may add, her home is quite surrounded. Mrs. Harrison is plain and unassum- ing in her manners, kindly and charit- able. She says, "The way to be happy, is to be usefully ; She has great energy and perseverance, with large executive ability, and notwith- standing her delicate health, accom- plishes much. She has written her name among the noble and useful ladies of our land, who are a blessing to the com- munity in which they live, and an honor to their sex. In this department will be answered those questions needing immediate attention, and such as are not of sufficient special interest to require replies from the 25 or more apiarists who help to make " Queries and Replies " so interesting on another page. In the main, it wi
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