. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 15, 1904.] THE BRITISH BEE JOtTRNAL. 495 but at this time had never even seen a modern hive. In due course my friend in- vited m© to go and see a modern apiary. I was very pleased to accept the invitation. The apiary visited is a small one, estab- lished by my friend near his residence in Porto. I was enchanted with what I saw, and from that moment made up my mind to start bee-keeping the following year of 1899. I live in the suburbs of Lisbon, and my house is surrounded by an orange grove. Wo have also kitfher; and flower gardens; an
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 15, 1904.] THE BRITISH BEE JOtTRNAL. 495 but at this time had never even seen a modern hive. In due course my friend in- vited m© to go and see a modern apiary. I was very pleased to accept the invitation. The apiary visited is a small one, estab- lished by my friend near his residence in Porto. I was enchanted with what I saw, and from that moment made up my mind to start bee-keeping the following year of 1899. I live in the suburbs of Lisbon, and my house is surrounded by an orange grove. Wo have also kitfher; and flower gardens; and all my neighbours have houses with similar surroundings to mine, so that the bees have plenty of honey- producing flowers from which to gather good honey. I began with four of what are known as the ' Sussex hives ' that my desire to have more hives ; but, as I found the ' Sussex' bee-hive too small, I bought six ' Gariel' hives, such as are used in France, but vnth a modification by a Mr. Sequeria, of Porto. This modification con- sists in the super frames being made of the same size as those in the brood-cham- ber, which makes the ' Gariel' much larger than before. Tiiese hi\cs are good, but do not equal either the ' Wells ' or the ' Dadant Blat' that I also have. The hives m my apiary ai'e of many types, as (he following list will show:—Four 'Sus- sex,' six 'Modified Gariel,' three ' Dadant-Blat,' and one 'Wells.' In this counti-y, especially in the south, ther^e is no snow, and the bees work all the year round, and vtry seldom—perhaps three or. JORGE A. D ALMEIDA LIMA S APIARY, LISBON. friend sent me from Porto. One of my neighbours kept bees, on the old system, in hives made of cork-wood, so that in the early spring (March, 1899) his bees began to swann, and he gave me four swarms, which were duly hived in my irame-hives. The bees did very well that year, but in the following winter one of the colonies died. " The following spring (beginning of April, 1900) I ca
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