. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. Book I- AGRICULTURE IN GERMANY. 99. i em % 631. The rtaring and care of bees were much attended to during the latter part ofthe eighteenth century ; with a view to which a public school was opened at Vienna andsome in the provinces ; and great encouragement was given to such as kept hives. Someproprietors in Hungary possessed 300 stock hives. It is
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. Book I- AGRICULTURE IN GERMANY. 99. i em % 631. The rtaring and care of bees were much attended to during the latter part ofthe eighteenth century ; with a view to which a public school was opened at Vienna andsome in the provinces ; and great encouragement was given to such as kept hives. Someproprietors in Hungary possessed 300 stock hives. It is customary there to transportthem from place to place, preferring sites where buckwheat or the lime tree abounds. Thehoney, when procured, is greatly increased in value by exposure to the open air for someweeks during winter ; it then becomes hard and as white as snow, and is sold to the ma-nufacturers of liquors at a high price. The noted Italian liqueur, rosodio, made also inDantzic, is nothing more than this honey blanched by exposure to the frost, mixed with aspirituous liquor : though the honey used is said to be that of the lime tree, which isproduced only in the forests of that tree near Kowno on the Niemen, and sells at morethan three times the price of common honey. 6
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