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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 



I may be permitted to call them such, is 

 photography. While at the Colonial, which 

 took place at South Kensington, England, 

 last October, Mr. A. secured some hue views, 

 representing some of the choicest displays 

 of a few of ihe exhibitors. Among the num- 

 ber of photographs which he showed us, 

 there was one which especially attracted our 

 attention ; and as the photograph was a tine 

 one, we concluded to have it reproduced in 

 Gleanings by the Ives process, a process 

 which imitates photography very closely. 

 While the outline is not as clear and sharp 

 as an ordinary wood-cut, we think the gen- 

 eral effect is quite pretty. It gives a very 

 excellent idea of how things must have 

 looked in the building where the exhibits 

 were made. 



decorations ; and, if we are not mistaken in 

 what we see in the picture, they even had 

 tropical^plants interspersed here and there. 

 On the right are two globes, which we sup- 

 pose to be electric lamps. If the exhibition 

 was lighted by electricity at night, the gen- 

 eral effect must have been very pretty. The 

 display of honey was not only very carefully 

 arranged, but it was a very large one. Our 

 friend L). A. Jones, of the Canadian Bee 

 Journal, estimates that the exhibition build- 

 ing where the view was taken is about 27 ft. 

 wide, 9(5 ft. long, 12 feet at tlie sides, and 27 

 ft. at the gables, with a self-supporting roof. 

 The friends across the water, as well as the 

 Canadian commissioners (who took no small 

 part in this display) are to be congratulated 

 for their enterprise in thus taking advan- 



A VIEW IjS>5U>E the COLONIAL EXHIBITION. 



From the picture our readers wdll readily 

 gather that the English have a fondness for 

 making large and elegant displays of honey, 

 both comb and extracted, in various sizes 

 and kinds of packages ; not only that, but 

 they take great pains to make each package 

 look as attractive as possible. Yon observe 

 in the long row of exhibits shown in the 

 foreground, that some of the counters are 

 arranged in pyramids, and others in ter- 

 races. The arrangement is certainly very 

 artistic, and the eflEect must have been pleas- 

 ing. 



If our memory serves us correctly, Mr. Ab- 

 bott informed us, when here, that there was 

 not only one row of exhibits like the one 

 shown, but there were six others of equal 

 size and beauty. As if the display of honey 

 were not fine enough in itself, our English 

 brethren have summoned the aid of floral 



tage of this very potent means of advertis- 

 ing. We learn that this honey-exhibition 

 was of such "general interest that the Eng- 

 lish papers gave quite flattering notices of it 

 — notices which were calculated to tickle 

 the palate of the English people at large for 

 gootl pure wholesome honey. W^e also learn 

 that the ('anadian exhibit of the Canadian 

 commissioners attracted no small amount of 

 attention, both as regards the quality of the 

 honey and the style of package. 'Amateur 

 Expert,'' in the (J. B. J., gives it as his opin- 

 ion that the commissioners must have real- 

 ized $.iOOO from honey sold. So much for 

 advertising in this way. "Would that we 

 Americans, with all our push and inventive 

 genius, might bestir ourselves to something 

 more extensive in the way of honey-exhibits! 

 The only real honey-displays that we get up 

 here are those made at our county fairs, 



