74 BKi:3. 



seasons, the first swarm will the same year 

 glasses of honey. No noticeable capital is required to com- 

 mence ; no noticeable amount of time is necessarily consumed 

 in their management, and they may be kept almost any- 

 where, though not with equal profit. One apiarian, whose 

 authority may be depended upon, gives the profits of eight 

 stocks only as averaging' about 201. in three successive years. 

 Another, who was regularly engaged from six to six daily in 

 other avocations, cleared nearly 100/. in one year by his bees. 

 The quantity of honey that may be obtained from a hive is 

 exceedingly variable, but offering, therefore, only the greater 

 assurance of due rewards for able management. Fifty or 

 sixty pounds have not unfrequently been obtained from a 

 single hive in a season, and occasionally as much as 100 lbs. ; 

 whilst from a set of collateral boxes, 110 lbs. is mentioned; 

 and Cotton states that as much as 21 lbs. have really been 

 stored in a single season, by a single stock similarly situated 

 in a roomy trebled habitation. The prices of honeys in Lon- 

 don are stated to be generally as follows >— 



s. d. 



Minorca, -which is the best per lb. 2 6 



Narbonne „ 2 



Pure native honey in the comb „ 1 



Other native honey „ 8 



But pure native honey in the comb, obtained in glasses, i^5 

 sought for the table, and therefore often sells for double the 

 ])rice above-mentioned. We shall only add, that Mr. Smart^ 

 a well-known apiarian, considers hundreds of stocks may be 

 kept where only tens are now to be found, so far as regards 

 the capabilities of support, the main point to be considered. 

 To that subject, therefore, we now turn : — 



BEE-FLO WEES. 



Conspicuous among- all the plants loved by bees (for {he 

 best of reasons, that they get the most honey or other sub- 

 stances from them), are clover, wild-thyme, heath, and 

 broom, borage, French buck- wheat, and 31diJotvs leitcan- 

 tlia. This fast may be usefully grown for the bees' especial 

 gratification. It is easily cultivated, blooms from June to 



