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Bee-Culture in Continental Europe. 



After visiting many of the leading 

 apiarists of England, the editor of the 

 Bee Journal took his departure for 

 the Continent of Europe, in accordance 

 with the programme heretofore pub- 

 lished. 



FRANCE. 



From London via New Haven, across 

 the English Channel, to Dieppe, an old 

 Norman town, we went on our way to 

 Paris — the most beautiful city of the 

 world. We arrived there in the night, 

 and saw it first by gas-light. It was so 

 magnificently lighted, and seemed so 

 busy even at midnight, that it was no 

 stretch of imagination to think it was 

 but noon. We visited the Pantheon, 

 the Tomb of Napoleon, the Luxem- 

 bourg, the Louvre, the Arch de Tri- 

 omphe, the Tuilleries, the churches, the 

 remarkable buildings, the Boulevards, 

 the Champs-Elysees, the Jardin des 

 Plants, the Bois de Boulogne, the ruins 

 of the Palais Eoyale, and went up in 

 the balloon from the Tuilleries to view 

 the city and see its magnificence. In 

 this country bee-keeping appears to be, 

 as yet, far behind in the matter of sci- 

 entific management and improved im- 

 plements — straw skeps and box hives 

 being nearly the only hives in use. 

 UApiculteur, the Paris bee paper, takes 

 ground quite strongly against movable 

 frames and similar Yankee inventions. 

 When we visited the editor, Mons. Ha- 

 met, he exhibited a small queen-cage, 

 similar to those in use in the United 

 States for years past, and thought it the 

 newest thing out, and a very nice thing. 

 It had come to him within a few days 

 from Italy, and as it was the first he had 

 seen, he thought it a very nice and new 

 thing ! When we informed him that 

 such had been in use in America for 

 many years he appeared almost (if not 

 quite) to doubt our veracity ! 



We were accompanied to Mons. Ha- 

 met, as well as conducted around the 

 magnificent city of Paris, by our friend 

 Mr. Arthur Todd, of Algeria, Africa. 

 He has been carrying on bee-keeping 

 in Africa for some years, but thinks he 



will be more successful in Europe, and 

 has determined to move to some loca- 

 tion in France or Italy before next 

 spring. Mr. Todd is fully alive to the 

 needs of the times in the way of im- 

 proved methods of bee-culture, and we 

 wish him success. 



We much regret not being able to 

 visit Mons. L'Abbe DuBois, Cure a la 

 Malmaison, near Neufchatel in Aisne, 

 a province of Northern France (Old 

 Normandy). We had fully intended to 

 do so, but our route led us by the way 

 of Dieppe, and we could not get there 

 and fulfill the engagements made in 

 Paris with Mr. Todd— having been de- 

 tained in Bristol, England, two days by 

 sickness. 



ALSACE. 



Leaving Paris, we went to Strassburg, 

 in Alsace, an old and justly celebrated 

 city. Near this city is Enghien, the 

 home of Mons. Dennler, one of the edi- 

 tors of the Alsatian bee paper. We 

 enjoyed a day's visit with Mons. Denn- 

 ler, and interviewed his bees, as well as 

 those of his neighbors. He is a pro- 

 gressive bee-keeper, using all the newest 

 implements of the apiary, and advoca- 

 ting their use in the bee paper which 

 he publishes in company with Mons. 

 Zwilling ; the latter we regret not to 

 have seen, but he lives some distance 

 away, and we were obliged to deny our- 

 selves this pleasure. We were to have 

 met Col. Pierson, with whom we enjoyed 

 a pleasant visit in London, but he was 

 detained by sickness from coming to 

 meet us again. 



SWITZERLAND. 



By the way of Basle, Berne, (the cap- 

 ital city,) and Fribourg (Lausanne), 

 along the coast of the world-renowned 

 Lake Geneva, in sight of those ever- 

 lasting hills capped with eternal snow 

 and ice, we journeyed to Nyon, the 

 home of Mons. and Madame Bertrand. 

 Their chalet is situated in a lovely place 

 on the shore of Lake Geneva and in 

 sight of the magnificent Mont Blanc. 

 Here we arrived in the evening, and 

 met with a very hearty welcome. The 

 Bev. M. Jacker, a Catholic priest, and 



