Your matter is sound, your argument JUST!!
To render substantial aid to our “venerable Tutor” is an imperative duty. Let us see to it then, at once, and DO THE RIGHT!
I don’t feel at liberty to enlarge on the subject, being “only an Englishman.”
Walter Hewson.
Wickham-breaux, Kent, England, Sept. 28, 1870.
[For the American Bee Journal.]
The African Honey Tree.—Inquiry.
In the “Poultry Bulletin,” J. M. Wade, of Philadelphia, writes—“A man, I can hardly say gentleman, came into the store yesterday, with seventy-one humming birds, which he had shot the day before in his own yard. He said some years ago he brought a honey tree from Africa, and thousands of humming birds would come to it in one day. Where did so many come from?”
As it may be in the interest of bee culture to know what can be learned about the honey tree of Africa, will some one who is informed give the readers of the American Bee Journal his knowledge of it? stating its growth, whether bees visit it, its uses, whether it is hardy, length of time in flower, in what month and at what age it blooms, and how it is propagated?