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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 1. 



sweeps by. close to friend Mclntyre's feet, as ings. By the way, there are stores and offices, 

 you see lii the cut. halls for public naeetlngs and theatricals, to say 



\Ve will now go back again to San Diego. I nothing of billiard-rooms and the like, all with- 

 in this one hotel. We en- 

 tered this inner court by 

 passing through a drug- 

 store. When I visited it 

 three years ago it was the 

 finest thing in the way of 

 a floral garden 1 ever 

 saw; yes, it indeed eclips- 

 ed every thing in the 

 shape of greenhouses and 

 conservatories that I 

 have seen in any of the 

 large cities or exposi- 

 tions. You see. the cli- 

 mate hiM'e at San Diego 

 is such that almost every 

 thing will grow in the 

 open air that grows in 

 any part of the world. 

 Exotic flowers, such as I 

 had never seen before, 

 were here, thriving with 

 wonderful luxuriance 

 right in the open air. 

 Humming and other 

 kinds of birds of gaudy 

 plumage also helped to 

 add interest to the scene, 

 while the thunder of the 

 waves just a few feet 

 away furnished music for 

 an accompaniment. One 

 thing that added largely 

 to the beauty of this gar- 

 den was, that trained 

 gardeners were constant- 

 ly removing not only 

 every flower, but almost 

 SCENE NEAR devil's GATE, SESPE CANYON. VKNTUR.\ CO., cAL. every leaf or twig, as 



told you, three years ago, 

 of San Diego's wonderful 

 natural harbor, and of 

 the motor railway that 

 runs away out into the 

 ocean on a thin little 

 streak of sand, finally 

 ending in a sort of island, 

 or peninsvila, where is 

 situated tlie celebrated 

 Coronado Hotel. P'or a 

 time this was said to be 

 the finest and largest 

 hotel in the world. Since 

 it was built, however, 

 other hotels have eclips- 

 ed it. I do not know 

 whether it pays expenses 

 or not — I ani afraid it 

 does not; for, to get even 

 a moderate interest on 

 the capital invested, it 

 would require a higher 

 state of prosperity than 

 the city of San Diego 

 seems at present to en- 

 joy. As pictures of this 

 famous hotel have been 

 scattered far and wide. 

 I shall not attempt one 

 here. Inside of the build- 

 ing or buildings (for it 

 is really an aggregation 

 of many buildings) is a 

 court, or garden, of per- 

 haps a quarter of an 

 acre. There is no open- 

 ing through from the 

 outside into this garden, a gi.tmpse from the interioi; court in the center of the coro- 

 except through the build- nado hotel, coronado beach, san diego co., cal. 



