. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 174 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Mar. 3, 19C4. leaved out they had baeswood leaves, but in no other way did they much resemble the basswood I had previously seen on the banlfs of the Merrimac. Later on I found 2 bass- wood trees nearer my place, one on each side of the street, not over 7 rods apart—one of them American and the other European. I am not a botanist to distinguish by their blossom the difference in the two species, but I can distinguish them by their other peculiar- ities. The American has leaves from 3 to 3 times larger than the European. T
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 174 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Mar. 3, 19C4. leaved out they had baeswood leaves, but in no other way did they much resemble the basswood I had previously seen on the banlfs of the Merrimac. Later on I found 2 bass- wood trees nearer my place, one on each side of the street, not over 7 rods apart—one of them American and the other European. I am not a botanist to distinguish by their blossom the difference in the two species, but I can distinguish them by their other peculiar- ities. The American has leaves from 3 to 3 times larger than the European. The branches of the European are finer, and thicker to- gether. From the external appearances of the two varieties, and from the experiences which I have had for a good many years in working with timber and boards, 1 feel sure that boards of the two varieties must differ widely. Is there not some woodman bee- keeper who has observed the difference, and can give us some more information i John P. CoBtRN. HillsboroCo., N. H., Jan. Distance Bees Work Profitably. In Mr. G. M. Doolittle's article on " Locat- ing Bees Among the Flowers," he doesn't say, but I think it makes quite a difference, the distance bees will By. If located in a valley where the bloom appears first they would naturally follow it farther up the mountains than if they were located at the mountain and had to go to the valley first, over where there were no flowers yet in bloom. Another BVILT TO LAST Never outclaased—Sure Hatch Incubators. Built better thim your house. No hotcenters; iio chilling: draughts on sensitive eggs. Every cubic inch in fgg chamber at uniform, blood tem- perature of fowl. It'sacontinual J tells lively story. Kl KE HATCH INCIBATOR CO. Clay Center, >eb. iDtllauapoliK, Ind. '^neaao mentiou Bee Journal -wnen •wnxma B66-K66Der8! Send for our FREE CATALOG. It will tell vou how to put foundation in four sections at once; and the only way to get a full section of °We^seii S
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