. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 376 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [August 9,1888. BUNCEFIELD APIARY. For full two generations the house of G. Neighbour & Sons has been closely identified with the supply of whatever is most advanced and useful amongst appli- ances for bee-keepers, not allowing itself to be sur- passed in enterprise and good workmanship, combined with as much cheapness as can be got with efficiency. It was only to be expected, therefore, that their com- pleteness would be extended to their bee-farm; and it was with considerable pleasure that we sought for,
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 376 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [August 9,1888. BUNCEFIELD APIARY. For full two generations the house of G. Neighbour & Sons has been closely identified with the supply of whatever is most advanced and useful amongst appli- ances for bee-keepers, not allowing itself to be sur- passed in enterprise and good workmanship, combined with as much cheapness as can be got with efficiency. It was only to be expected, therefore, that their com- pleteness would be extended to their bee-farm; and it was with considerable pleasure that we sought for, and obtained, an invitation to visit the apiary at Buncefield, near Hemel Hemsted. No worse time could well be selected for a visit to a bee-garden than during such a continuous daily down- pour of rain as we have had recently, and it was with some trepidation (and croaking) that we stepped into a conveyance at Boxmoor, after a twenty-mile ride from Euston to Hemel Hemsted, with prophets of evil weather on either hand. A steady rise of some 300 feet over about six miles, through the usual beautiful lanes of Hertfordshire, in which one might seek in vain for un- picturesque scenery, and we were at Buncefield. With what eager and almost envious eyes did we note divers ten-acre fields covered with white-clover bloom, asking, as plainly as plants can ask, for sunshine to bring the bees to visit them! With what sullen discontent do we try to bring our minds into a fitting frame to ' bless whatever is!' Par parenthhe, one thing we must all learn this year is to ' extract' comfort from comparative misfortune, and thank our stars, somewhat pharisaically, that we are not as other men, whose all lay in the fields perishing for want of warm weather. To anyone who desires to see a perfectly planned apiary, managed by a past-master in the craft, I com- mend Buncefield. Three acres (four goats in place of la vache) are divided into orchard and bee-garden, the latter again subdivided by pathw
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