1898 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



547 



June, and I've paid it many visits. Some 

 seasons this tree would be full of large black 

 ilies, but there were none this year, and only 

 occasionally a bee among the blossoms. We've 

 no surplus honey to date, July 1. 



SWEET CLOVER. 

 All gravelly knolls, vacant lots, and waste 

 places have a luxuriant growth of this plant, 

 just conmiencing to bloom. My attention 

 was directed to bees working upon it to-day. 

 The bloom is so small it must be a tin}- drop 

 that is secreted; but by ihe way bees visit 

 them it nmst be secreted continuously. We've 

 never had a large amount of surplus from 

 sweet clover, but bees work upon it a long 

 time. 



FACED GOODS. 



Let's have none, be it apples, potatoes, or 

 honey. 1 bought fancy Ben Davis apples for 

 a Christmas-tree in the South, and was cha- 



of the Lines. County Council, and holds the 

 first-class-expert certificate of the B. B. K. S., of 

 which association he is a member. So keen 

 an interest dot s Dr vSharp take in all that per- 

 tains to bee-keeping, that a considerable por- 

 tion of his spare time is devote 1 to the pur- 

 suit. 



In response to our request Dr. Sharp writes 

 as follows: 



" The establishment of the apiary is of com- 

 paratively recent date. Five years ago as 

 many hives were situated in my garden, near 

 the house and close to the stable. But the 

 situation was then most inconvenient, with 

 growing crops all round, and work in the im- 

 mediate vicinity of the hives often seriously 

 impeded. At the end of that year, what was 

 then a paddock \^as converted into an or- 

 chard, and dug over, and to the farthest end 

 of which, under shelter of the hedge, the bees 

 were then removed. 



APIARY OF PERCY SHARP. — FROM BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 



grined to find that they were only "faced. 

 I was willing to pay the price for "fancy 

 for the whole package. 

 Peoria, 111. 



BEE-KEEPING IN "MERRIE ENGLAND." 



Apiary of Percy Sharp. 



The apiary shown in illustration is that of 

 Dr. Percy Sharp, at Brant Broughton, New- 

 ark-on-Trent. Dr. Sharp is a well-known 

 and prominent bee-keeper in his county, and 

 also lectures on bee-keeping under the aus- 

 pices of the Technical Instruction Committee 



"Despite our good resolutions with regard 

 to cleanliness about the apiary, time after 

 time the weeds got the mastery, and we found 

 it impossible, with other work on hand, to 

 keep them cleared. Moreover, there was no 

 proper path through the orchard, and the 

 mud was awful. The discomforts endured 

 when manipulating, too, wire great — mud, 

 dirt, and damp everywhere Having endured 

 this for some time, during which my apiary 

 increased slowly but steadily, as did my 

 knowledge of and delight in the pursuit, I de- 

 termined to make a really good stand for the 

 hives and a firm path leading to them. I ob- 

 tained from an adjacent yard about ten loads 



