rical pattern is giving way to the development of walk lines of
practical use, recognizing both traffic requirements and the
desirability of location for numerous park benches. What will lend more
charm to a park than a beautiful drive bordered with noble trees leading
up to some focal point or opening a way to some particular vista that
would otherwise be lost!

The park board should not limit its work to parks alone, but wherever
there is a spot, triangle corner or any other kind of available place,
there should be planted shrubs or flower beds. They soon become a public
pride and cheer many passersby. We have a number of bright spots in our
city, beginning in the spring with a beautiful bed of tulips. May
another year bring us many more! One forgets the mud and the
disagreeable days of spring in watching the bulbs thrust their little
pointed noses through the cold earth and the development of the buds
until they burst open into a blaze of color, flaunting their gorgeous
heads in a farewell to old winter and giving a cheery welcome to the
coming summer.

BEE-KEEPER'S COLUMN.

Conducted by FRANCIS JAGER, Professor of Apiculture, University
Farm, St. Paul.

If not already done the beekeeper should at once make his final
preparations towards a successful wintering of bees. There are several
conditions under which the bees winter well, all of which are more or
less understood. The chief of these are a strong colony of young bees,
sufficient amount of good stores, and the proper place to keep the bees.

Bees that were queenless late in the fall or bees that had an old queen
who stopped laying very early in the season, will have only few and old
bees for wintering and will not have vitality enough to survive. Such
colonies should be united with some other good colony or if too far gone
they should be destroyed. Weak colonies should be united until they are
strong enough to occupy and fill when clustered at least six frames.

The best stores to winter bees on is pure honey capped over. Honey dew
will kill the bees in winter. If you have any black honey in your hives
you had better remove it and replace with white honey. A ten frame hive
ready for winter ought to contain from 35 to 40 pounds of honey. A
complete hive if put on a scale should weigh not less than from 50 to 60
pounds. The best way to supply food to the bees is to remove the dry
combs and insert next to the cluster full combs of honey. Feeding suga