Italy; Otto Schultz, of German' comb 

 foundation notoriety ; Count Kolovrat, 

 of Prague ; Herr Vogel, and many oth- 

 ers widely known for their apistical 

 knowledge, inventions or experiments. 



The exhibition of living bees was 

 very large, and in every imaginable size 

 and shape of hive— from the clay tube 

 of Palestine to the movable frame hive 

 of America. The bees were well-marked 

 and attractive in appearance, many be- 

 ing Italians, but there were some Hun- 

 garian bees exhibited by the Apiarian 

 Society of Vienna, and several colonies 

 of Cyprian bees. Many were in observ- 

 ation hives, others in hives of fancy 

 and grotesque shapes, and one colony 

 in a hollow statue of a standing deer, 

 the entrance being in its breast, and the 

 opening for frames in its side. 



A peculiarity exhibited by the Kev. 

 Dr. Dzierzon, was a colony of Italian 

 bees with two queens— one being a pure 

 queen and the other a hybrid. 



The display of empty bee-hives was 

 very great ; one thing may be said in 

 their praise, that the majority of them 

 contained movable frames. 



The show of honey and wax extract- 

 ors was very good ; although not up to 

 the American machines in simplicity, 

 still they were effective and calculated 

 to aid in the scientific management of 

 the honey-bee. One honey extractor 

 (the Muth) being the only American 

 machine exhibited. 



In smokers the display was very large, 

 but they were mostly cumbersome and 

 clumsy machines, nowhere to be com- 

 pared to the three Bingham bellows 

 smokers exhibited from America. 



Honey knives were abundant, but 

 none of them stood well in comparison 

 with the Bingham & Hetherington 

 honey knife, which called forth unlim- 

 ited praise from such experienced men 

 as Dzierzon, Hilbert, Butlerow, Karl 

 Gatter, &c. 



In the line of comb foundation, Otto 

 Schultz has an immense exhibit made 

 from all kinds of wax. It is very nice 

 and creditable. 



Much interest was shown in the model 



Langstroth hive, comb honey rack, cases 

 of 3 and 8 sections with separators, 

 queen cages, comb foundation, and 

 bees and drones in bottles which we 

 exhibited, as well as Cook's Manual and 

 the other works published at the Amer- 

 ican Bee Journal office. 



In the line of honey and wax, the 

 show was very fine. The extracted 

 honey was put up in bottles and jars, 

 the comb honey was mostly in small 

 sections with straight combs, and looked 

 very fine. The wax products were well 

 represented. Wax candles, large me- 

 dalions of wax representing the several 

 majesties of the countries exhibiting, 

 several pictures in has relief, and wax 

 items in almost every shape imaginable. 



The honey wine represented all kinds 

 of flavors, and was in quantity such as 

 would do credit to the counter of a large 

 wine merchant. 



The honey cake and confectioneiy 

 department was as good as it was large, 

 embracing almost all kinds of cake, 

 and many very excellent articles of con- 

 fectionery. Denmark made a nice dis- 

 play of honey wines, liquors, meads, &c. 



In the literary department were all 

 kinds of bee books, journals, &c, as 

 well as lithographic plates of bees, bee 

 enemies, honey-producing plants, &c. 



On the grounds you might hear all 

 kinds of languages spoken — French, 

 English, Italian. Russian, Bohemian, 

 Servian, and all the dialects of German 

 —it was truly an International Congress 

 of Bee-Keepers. 



HOMEW r ARD JOURNEY. 



Leaving Prague, we visited Dresden, 

 the capital of the Kingdom of Saxony ; 

 thence to Berlin, the capital of the Ger- 

 man Empire, which is also a very hand- 

 some city ; and thence to Cologne, the 

 chief city of Rhenish Prussia, which is 

 strongly fortified, and contains many 

 things of general interest; thence to 

 Brussels, the capital of the Kingdom of 

 Belgium, and is situated only 12 miles 

 from the celebrated field of " Water- 

 loo," where Napoleon I. was defeated. 

 Then by the way of Calais, we crossed 

 the English Channel to Dover, and took 



