. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 15, 1921. THE BBITISH BEE JOURNAL. 585 us the different soils and cultivation of the Gironde and adjacent Departments. On his advice it was decided to hire a car and make a tour on the next day of the country on both sides of the valley of the Gironde, and as he also gave us such very glowing accounts in confirmation of Mr. Dadant's previous statement that the Department of Lot et. evidences of the drought. We had expected to find vegetation much more forward than we had left it in England, but it was very little, if at all, more adva
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 15, 1921. THE BBITISH BEE JOURNAL. 585 us the different soils and cultivation of the Gironde and adjacent Departments. On his advice it was decided to hire a car and make a tour on the next day of the country on both sides of the valley of the Gironde, and as he also gave us such very glowing accounts in confirmation of Mr. Dadant's previous statement that the Department of Lot et. evidences of the drought. We had expected to find vegetation much more forward than we had left it in England, but it was very little, if at all, more advanced than on the warmer soils in some of the early va'leys of Surrey. Plums were in full blossom in both places, and so were the early pears. Of course, in France. 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. 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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