. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 8 THE BKITTSH BEE JOUENAL. Jan. 13, 1921. The New Annual Sweet Glover. (Melilotus Albus.) I am sending you a few rather poor photos of this plant growing in my garden in Berkshire in the past summer. Mr. A. I. Root has been testing annual sweet clover for some time now, and has published results frequently in Gleanings, together with photographs showing the process of its growth. The pictures herewith were taken at different times from mid-June to Septem- ber, and it will be seen that the growth is very rapid. Planted at the end of April,
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 8 THE BKITTSH BEE JOUENAL. Jan. 13, 1921. The New Annual Sweet Glover. (Melilotus Albus.) I am sending you a few rather poor photos of this plant growing in my garden in Berkshire in the past summer. Mr. A. I. Root has been testing annual sweet clover for some time now, and has published results frequently in Gleanings, together with photographs showing the process of its growth. The pictures herewith were taken at different times from mid-June to Septem- ber, and it will be seen that the growth is very rapid. Planted at the end of April, bees were working on it by the middle of June; and Anyway, if you want to see bees work, plant a small patch in your garden. 1 understand that it will seed itself and come up fresh each year. I cannot imagine any weeds getting much chance with it when once it gets a start.—R. B. Manley. The Past Season in East Stirlingshire. If my tale is not too doleful for pub- lication I will give you a short account of how it fared with me in the Eastern district of Stirlingshire during the season which has passed. In the autumn of 1919 I put four stocks. The Annual Sweet Clover. by the beginning of July the patch was a mass of blossom, and covered each day with bees. They were still working it in November. There is no doubt that this plant is a wonderful honey producer, and the fact that it grows freely on very poor land gives it an added value. No doubt it is a good farm forage plant if treated in the right way, but I fear it will be long before it takes in any way the place of lucerne in this country. I would suggest that bee-keepers here procure small quantities of seed and sow it in waste places, such as chalk pits and embankments, and see what it will do. Reports from America state that any kind of rough place will do, but that it prefers lime in the soil. into winter quarters, and all were well and working on the gooseberries in April. My apiary is at the edge of a 6-acre orchard a
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