NOVEMBER 15, 1912 



2 The laboratory; 3. The glazed hee-house where bees can take a Uiuht during winter; 4 View of the 

 inside; 5. Springtime bee pasture; 6. Summer pasture; 7. Late-flowering bee-plants. 



tion between bees and flowers. Three beds 

 (9, 8, and 11, Fig. 1) are occupied witli 

 bee-plants grouped in accordance with their 

 flowering time. Thus on one bed you may 

 see tlie principal flowers yielding nectar 

 and pollen during spring time (Fig. 5). 

 On another bed all the important bee-plants 

 •of summer are grouped together (Fig. 6), 

 and a third bed shows late-yielding bee- 

 plants, the most important of which is 

 heather, Fig. 7. Agricultural plants of 

 value for the bees are placed on a bed by 



themselves, as in No. 13, Fig. 1, and further 

 beds are devoted to plants showing especial- 

 ly w-ell the intimate relation between flow- 

 ers and bees. 



THE BEE-GARDEN. 



With taste and skill the different bee- 

 stands are distributed among the equally 

 well-arranged flower-beds and fruit-trees. 

 The position to the right of the decoration 

 bed, 17, Fig. 1, is occupied by four stands 

 of bees representing four typical races 

 (golden Americans, Italians, Carniolans, 



