. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 434 Bee-Culture in Continental Europe. After visiting many of the leading apiarists of England, the editor of the Bee Journal took his departure for the Continent of Europe, in accordance with the programme heretofore pub- lished. FRANCE. From London via New Haven, across the English Channel, to Dieppe, an old Norman town, we went on our way to Paris—the most beautiful city of the world. We arrived there in the night, and saw it first by gas-light. It was so magnificently lighted, and seemed so busy even at midnight, that it was no stretch of imaginat
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 434 Bee-Culture in Continental Europe. After visiting many of the leading apiarists of England, the editor of the Bee Journal took his departure for the Continent of Europe, in accordance with the programme heretofore pub- lished. FRANCE. From London via New Haven, across the English Channel, to Dieppe, an old Norman town, we went on our way to Paris—the most beautiful city of the world. We arrived there in the night, and saw it first by gas-light. It was so magnificently lighted, and seemed so busy even at midnight, that it was no stretch of imagination to think it was but noon. We visited the Pantheon, the Tomb of Napoleon, the Luxem- bourg, the Louvre, the Arch de Tri- omphe, the Tuilleries, the churches, the remarkable buildings, the Boulevards, the Champs-Elysees, the Jardin des Plants, the Bois de Boulogne, the ruins of the Palais Eoyale, and went up in the balloon from the Tuilleries to view the city and see its magnificence. In this country bee-keeping appears to be, as yet, far behind in the matter of sci- entific management and improved im- plements—straw skeps and box hives being nearly the only hives in use. UApiculteur, the Paris bee paper, takes ground quite strongly against movable frames and similar Yankee inventions. When we visited the editor, Mons. Ha- met, he exhibited a small queen-cage, similar to those in use in the United States for years past, and thought it the newest thing out, and a very nice thing. It had come to him within a few days from Italy, and as it was the first he had seen, he thought it a very nice and new thing ! When we informed him that such had been in use in America for many years he appeared almost (if not quite) to doubt our veracity ! We were accompanied to Mons. Ha- met, as well as conducted around the magnificent city of Paris, by our friend Mr. Arthur Todd, of Algeria, Africa. He has been carrying on bee-keeping in Africa for some years, but thinks he will be more succes
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