. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. "N^SESi^ '^?Zm. Generalabonnement j Abonnement genera/] ^fihi^ nuf itcu Stix'cken der ura^ttelioud bezcich- nctun Kiitr»tjMhn>iind Damiinwotiinicmuhmuiiifen ealalie sur In /vi r rV (INKIS na e/ut?Tz ^JifyU^^A':l<^ U. Classe. Taxe Fr. 110.— (tat). D«pM Fr. 6. -). Pass Issued to Mrs. C P. Dadant. a>id Good Over All Swiss Railroads and Steamboats for a Month from Date of Issue. great kindness of Mr. Edouard Ber- trand, the former editor of the "Revue Internationale D'; of which my father was so long a regular con- tribu
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. "N^SESi^ '^?Zm. Generalabonnement j Abonnement genera/] ^fihi^ nuf itcu Stix'cken der ura^ttelioud bezcich- nctun Kiitr»tjMhn>iind Damiinwotiinicmuhmuiiifen ealalie sur In /vi r rV (INKIS na e/ut?Tz ^JifyU^^A':l<^ U. Classe. Taxe Fr. 110.— (tat). D«pM Fr. 6. -). Pass Issued to Mrs. C P. Dadant. a>id Good Over All Swiss Railroads and Steamboats for a Month from Date of Issue. great kindness of Mr. Edouard Ber- trand, the former editor of the "Revue Internationale D'; of which my father was so long a regular con- tributor. Our next stop was with Mr. Ber- trand, at his mountain summer home of Gryon. In spite of their age, both he and his wife are very active, and both were at the station to welcome us. I had visited them in 1900, and found them almost as spry as they were 13 years ago. Mr. Bertrand is of the age of our Dr. Miller, and wonderfully pre- served, in spite of the many responsi- bilities he has had. The village, of which one view was given in our October number, is on a very steep declivity, beyond the east end of Lake Geneva, and is reached from Bex on the main line, by a cog road. It is at an altitude of 3740 feet, and in full sight of several snow peaks. There are a few bees there, for it is mainly a land of pastures. But the best apiaries are down in the valley. Mr. Bertrand is no longer active as a beekeeper, but is still interested in all the doings of bee-culture, and a con- stant reader of our Journal, for he speaks and reads English as well as French. His book, "Conduite du Rucher," has had dozens of editions, and is published in eight different lan- guages. Only one other work on bees, that of Cowan, exceeds it in the num- ber of translations. But we will speak of this later. The first information we received from our kind host as soon as we were installed in his pretty "chalet," waa that Mr. Gubler had written him asking to be informed of our arri
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