1882 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



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A TURKISH APIAKY. series of steps, reaching from the ground and ex- 

 tending to the rocky walls, with the tree-trunks two 

 WE should like to give a detailed de- feet high placed like statues on a pedestal, offer a 

 scription of this apiary, but L'Api- singular spectacle to those not accustomed to this 

 -^ ^ cidtcnr, the journal t'lom which we mode of apiculture. 

 make this extract, confines itself to this brief "it should be known that Montenegro, like the ad- 

 mention: — jacent parts of Turkey in Europe, Dalmatia and 



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"One can pass from the convent and church to a 

 sort of terraced garden where arc arranged the 

 hives. The same system is practiced hero as in 

 Greece and on Hymettus; i. e., the bees make their 

 honey in hollowed-out sections of trees, which are 

 covered on top with a piece of flattened bark. This 



Albanie, maintain an important number of hives. 

 Dalmatia, above all, exports honey and wax to 

 Trieste and Venice, and wax even to Marseilles." 



AVe are under obligations to M. II. Ha- 

 met, the able and gentlemanly editor or jL'- 

 Ax>knU€in\ Paris, for information which 



