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other circumstances calculated to promote their 

 prosperity, I coincide in opinion with Milton. 



Some recommend a valley or hollow glen, for 

 the convenience of the bees returning home with 

 their loads. At any rate care should be taken 

 that no walls, trees, houses, nor any thing else, 

 impede the issuing forth of the bees to their pas- 

 turage, nor obstruct their return in right lines to 

 the hives. They should be able to fly off from 

 the resting boards at an angle of about forty de- 

 grees with the plane of the horizon. 



To those who, residing in towns, may consider 

 it as indispensable to the success of an apiary, 

 that it should be in the immediate vicinity of 

 good pasturage, and be thereby deterred from 

 benefiting and amusing themselves by keeping 

 bees ; it may be satisfactory to learn, that the 

 apiary of the celebrated Bonner was situated in a 

 garret, in the centre of Glasgow, where it flou- 

 rished for several years, and furnished him with 

 the means of making many interesting and valu- 

 able observations, which he gave to the world 

 about thirty years ago. 



