. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. M. Pierre Raynal's Apiary, Gazinet Cestas. Garonna was the very- El Dorado of bee keeping, and as he added to this the hospitality of his home with himself to show us over the country, we decided there and then to accept this offer and go with him to his house at L:\adac on (he Saturday. Good Friday was a beautiful day, a day we saw more of them, and we judged that a normal rainfall in both districts would generally put the more southerly country ahead. Our roule lay through that part of France so famous for its white wines. We passed the


. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. M. Pierre Raynal's Apiary, Gazinet Cestas. Garonna was the very- El Dorado of bee keeping, and as he added to this the hospitality of his home with himself to show us over the country, we decided there and then to accept this offer and go with him to his house at L:\adac on (he Saturday. Good Friday was a beautiful day, a day we saw more of them, and we judged that a normal rainfall in both districts would generally put the more southerly country ahead. Our roule lay through that part of France so famous for its white wines. We passed the Sauterne estates and visited Barsac, and. Apiary of Bournac Hives with Rush Covers On. of general sunshine, not only throughout France, but England also, and although summer time had already begun in France, it was promising warm at 9 o'clock in the morning (eight o'clock English time) when we left Bordeaux. There had been no rain whatever during the previous two months, and the country was showing very distinct at noonday we even sampled some of these good things in an old-fashioned country inn at a small village called Popetet. H<*re, like royalty, but with less disastrous results, we were surfeited with a dish of lampreys and mushrooms in red wine sauce, as only the French know how to serve it, and as these good things came between courses of equally. 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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