. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June. 1009. American Hee Jfonrnal 199 Signer Asprea so kindly sent to us. They are very interesting. A Report from Austria ilr. Alex. Schroeder, of Trieste, Aus- tria, wrote us May 5, as follows: Dear Mr. York:—I beg you to accept my best congratulations and good wishes for many more ytars to come in connection with the American Bee Journal. Tliis is in response to your Twenty-fifth Anniversary editorial, in the April number. I have been ill now for about 4 weeks, with a big anthrax that has weakened me materially, but now I can get up and walk about,


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June. 1009. American Hee Jfonrnal 199 Signer Asprea so kindly sent to us. They are very interesting. A Report from Austria ilr. Alex. Schroeder, of Trieste, Aus- tria, wrote us May 5, as follows: Dear Mr. York:—I beg you to accept my best congratulations and good wishes for many more ytars to come in connection with the American Bee Journal. Tliis is in response to your Twenty-fifth Anniversary editorial, in the April number. I have been ill now for about 4 weeks, with a big anthrax that has weakened me materially, but now I can get up and walk about, and hope that within a week or so to be able to attend to my business again. April was fine, but May up to this time has been cold and rainy. With best wishes and greetings from Mrs. Schrceder and myself, I am. Yours faithfully Alex. Schroeder. Our readers will remember that Mr. and Mrs. Schroeder made a short but very pleasant visit to the United States last year. We mentioned their call on us at the time. Australian Honey Everyone thinks his own baby pretti- est. In the Northern States there is a general preference for white-clover hon- ' ey. In California, nothing equals the flavor of sage honey. In .\ustralia is to be found the delightful honey from the eucalyptus. Yet the London mar- ket will have none of this eucalyptus honey in spite of earnest efforts to in- troduce it there as a superior table lion- ey. That bright Australian, R. Beuhne, after interviewing the leading markets of England, Germany, and .\merica, thus sensibly sizes up the situation, in The Federal Independent Bee-keeper: ''Taking all these facts into consideration, it cannot be doubted any longer that the honey gathered from our eucalypts possesses a dis- tinct flavor, not noticeable to Australians, who are used. to it, but very evident to people in other countries. This flavor is not necessarily that of the essential oil of the eucalypt, and the term eucalyptus flavor does not imply more than a descr


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