. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 122 THE BEE-KEEPERS- REVIEW, Among other heterodox notions of mine. I believe in what may be called esthetic bee- keeping. There is very little of it in this country, but it abounds in England, and I am "Hinglish you ; Most of the apiaries I have seen are disorderly, rickety, tumble-down rookeries of placesâa disfig- urement to this fair earth. The majority of bee-keepers have no eye for beauty. They "don't care for ;. I do. English bee-books abound in fancy and ornamental hives. Mr. Heddon would denounce them as " unp
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 122 THE BEE-KEEPERS- REVIEW, Among other heterodox notions of mine. I believe in what may be called esthetic bee- keeping. There is very little of it in this country, but it abounds in England, and I am "Hinglish you ; Most of the apiaries I have seen are disorderly, rickety, tumble-down rookeries of placesâa disfig- urement to this fair earth. The majority of bee-keepers have no eye for beauty. They "don't care for ;. I do. English bee-books abound in fancy and ornamental hives. Mr. Heddon would denounce them as " unpractical. " That with him is the foulest of crimes in bee-keeping. But it is a libel on fancy and ornamental hives to call them unpractical. You may have a thoroughly practical hive interiorly, that is a thing of beauty exteriorly. English bee- books, like those of Neighbor, and Chesh- As people become more intelligent, we are going to have a class of bee-keepers who will keep a few colonies for their own use and pleasure, just as there are multitudes who cultivate a garden so as to raise their own small fruits and vegetables. No " boughten " fruits and vegetables taste so nice as those grown in your own garden. There are hosts of people who do not know the taste of a ripe strawberry, because they have only eaten those bought from fruiter- ers. These in order to stand carriage to market, must be plucked before they are ripe. Pears are the only fruit I know of that are improved by being gathered before they are ripe. Wrapped in tissue paper and laid in a bureau to ripen, they attain a per- fection of flavor they never reach on the tree. 1 want my strawberries gathered just. â WM. F. CLABKE, HIS DRIVING PONX AND APIABY. ire, furnish plans of hives that, with every convenience inside, are pretty outside. Why not ? " They are costly. " What if they are ? They pay in appearance, just as a beautiful house does for human beings to live in. I cannot go into a
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