. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. TME BEE-KEEPERS' RECORD AND ADVISER. No. 409. Vol. XVIII. 17.] APKIL 24, 1890. [Published WeeTzly. ^iritorial, ftolxas, fc. EMINENT BEE-KEEPERS. No. 25.—M. GEOEGES DE LAYENS. We have much pleasure in skiving our readers this week a biography of one of the leadiug bee- keepers in France, who has done much to introduce and simplify modern methods of bee - culture. M. G. de Layens was born in 1833, and in 1862 he at- tended a course of lectures that were given by the late M, Hamet, the edi- tor of the Apicul- teur, at the gardens of the
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. TME BEE-KEEPERS' RECORD AND ADVISER. No. 409. Vol. XVIII. 17.] APKIL 24, 1890. [Published WeeTzly. ^iritorial, ftolxas, fc. EMINENT BEE-KEEPERS. No. 25.—M. GEOEGES DE LAYENS. We have much pleasure in skiving our readers this week a biography of one of the leadiug bee- keepers in France, who has done much to introduce and simplify modern methods of bee - culture. M. G. de Layens was born in 1833, and in 1862 he at- tended a course of lectures that were given by the late M, Hamet, the edi- tor of the Apicul- teur, at the gardens of the Luxembourg- in Paris. At these lectures there were about sixty persons present, and they assisted at the prac- tical demonstra- tions which took place in the model apiary, which no longer exists. In the following year M. Layens asked M. Hamet's permission to take the swarms in an , apiary which be- longed to him at Meudon,near Paris. There were sixty hives in this apiary, and it was here that M. Layens had his first experience with bees. At this time frame hives were hardly known in France, and those which were recommended to M. de Layens appeared to him hardly practicable. As he was living in Paris at this time he took advantage of the opportunity offered him to read up a large number of books on bees which were to be found in the library of the Jardin des Plantes and at the National Library. This reading, however, in-. M. GEOEGES DE LAYENS. stead of enlightening him much about bee- keeping, only confused him. A friend of his, who knew English very well, had the patience to translate the principal articles from the first six volumes of the American Bee Jounifd. His favourite wi'iter was Gallup, who wrote with a rare talent on all questions relating to bee- keeping. But the American hives, intended principally for the production of honey in sec- tions, appeared to M. de Layens too complicated, when the bee - keeper s object was only the obtaining of ex- tracted honey. In 18 G
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