. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 19, THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 469 the better. Its good points, on know- ledge gained, speak for themselves. In Memoriam.—One of America's most successful bee-keepers and graphic writers has passed over to the great majority in the person of E. W. Alexander, of De- lanson. The writer of the memorial notice in Gleanings concludes: "If I were to choose the epitaph to be placed on the stone to mark his last resting- place it would be this :— His life was beautiful, His work enduring, His death ; The Spider Plant
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 19, THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 469 the better. Its good points, on know- ledge gained, speak for themselves. In Memoriam.—One of America's most successful bee-keepers and graphic writers has passed over to the great majority in the person of E. W. Alexander, of De- lanson. The writer of the memorial notice in Gleanings concludes: "If I were to choose the epitaph to be placed on the stone to mark his last resting- place it would be this :— His life was beautiful, His work enduring, His death ; The Spider Plant.—"The first two bees stayed one and a half minutes each, then the third bee stayed forty-eight seconds before it left the plant. I then took a glass medicine-dropper with a rubber bulb structor in apiculture at the college, assisted by several of the lady students, who drove the bees from skeps, capturing the queen and manipulating the bees in the most orthodox fashion. Messrs. Abbott Bros., of Southall, occupied a large stand, wherein were displayed various hives and bee-appliances, including the now famous Daily Mirror hives, together with their patent honey-spoons, garden tables, and other interesting novelties. The Lord Mayor, when opening the exhibition, spent some time at these two stands, and purchased a patent table-tray shown by Messrs. Abbott Bros. The tone block seen below (from a photo) shows a part of this firm's display and that of the Studley College. This exhibition seems to have been an abnormal success from the busi- ness point of view, Messrs. Abbott BEE-EXHIBITS AT THE IDEAL HOME EXHIBITION. to it, and I drew the nectar from thirteen flowers, getting a teasjjoonful in ; I sincerely wish we could import and suc- cessfully cultivate this plant in quantity. It is said to be very ornamental and fit to decorate the flower-garden. Is it grown in this country? THE IDEAL HOME EXHIBITION. At the Ideal Home Exhibition, Tield at Olympia from
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