. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. January A Floral "; HV H. E. HII^ N MAKING a hurried move some distance up the river, in November, the eight-frame, single- story, L hive, which was in as a fertilizing hive, .shown in the accompany- ing picture, being in an isolated nook, was over- looked. Some ten days later, when I returned for it, it was found almo,st com- pletely buried by a solid mass of creani}'- white flowers. The vine is known localh' as Madara-vine, though it is not the. During the day, while writing the letter on 'Lo
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. January A Floral "; HV H. E. HII^ N MAKING a hurried move some distance up the river, in November, the eight-frame, single- story, L hive, which was in as a fertilizing hive, .shown in the accompany- ing picture, being in an isolated nook, was over- looked. Some ten days later, when I returned for it, it was found almo,st com- pletely buried by a solid mass of creani}'- white flowers. The vine is known localh' as Madara-vine, though it is not the. During the day, while writing the letter on 'Locality" for the December nimiber of The Bee-Keeper, I ha 1 thouglit much about the vast difference of conditions that obtain at the same time in our own country. In .some parts of the North I knew that the .snow-drifts were fence- high, and as I discovered the buried hive l>eneatli its load of flowers, "Here is a South Florida,'snow drift,' " thought I—a tropical, floral '"snow-bank," gay with butterflies, sweet with the perfume of Inirsting blossoms and musical with the hum of busy bees. Truly ours is a great country, and the matter of locality in many ways is one that has a most import- ant bearing upon our industry. Then, glancing down the river Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Falconer, N. Y. : W. T. Falconer Manfg. Co.
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