. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Feb. 8, 1917. THE BRITISH BEE OBITUARY. EDOUARD BERTRAND. It is with feelings of deep sorrow and regret that we have to announce the death,, at the ripe age of nearly 85 years, of M. Ed. Bertrand, one of the leading pioneers of modern bee-keeping in Switzerland. Ed. Bertrand was born on May 16, 1832, in Geneva, where he was educated, and like many other Swiss he left his native home to make a living at the age of twenty, coming to England, where he entered the banking house of Messrs. Hambro, the shores of Lake Leman, in view of
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Feb. 8, 1917. THE BRITISH BEE OBITUARY. EDOUARD BERTRAND. It is with feelings of deep sorrow and regret that we have to announce the death,, at the ripe age of nearly 85 years, of M. Ed. Bertrand, one of the leading pioneers of modern bee-keeping in Switzerland. Ed. Bertrand was born on May 16, 1832, in Geneva, where he was educated, and like many other Swiss he left his native home to make a living at the age of twenty, coming to England, where he entered the banking house of Messrs. Hambro, the shores of Lake Leman, in view of Mont Blanc, where he could devote himself to his favourite pursuits of horticulture and arboriculture. It was not long before he became pos- sessed of two skeps of bees with straw caps, such as are used by the villagers, which a friend of his had offered to him, and with these he commenced bee-keeping. Having no other idea about bees than those gathered from the work of his compatriot. F. Huber, in his " Nouvelles Obser- vations," he found the knowledge acquired not sufficient for practical bee-keeping. The first two or three years of his novitiate were passed in trials and failures without ever harvesting a single pound of honey. He tried, one after the other, hives with supers such as the Varembey, Ribeau-. 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 London
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