74 UTILIZATION OF MINUTE LIFE. 



live, to a great extent, upon the honey of the bee. 

 The honey exported from the Isle of Bourbon is the 

 product of Apis unicolor, Latreille ; it is of a green 

 colour and oily consistency, and has an aromatic 

 flavour. 



In North America there is a bee which suspends 

 clusters of thirty or forty wax cells, resembling a 

 bunch of grapes, to the rocks. Its honey is called 

 rock-honey. It is very clear and thin, somewhat 

 like water. 



The honey contained in the hives that Niebuhr 

 met upon the Nile was the product of Apis fas- 

 data, a species of bee extensively cultivated in 

 Egypt. 



Apis unicolor has been domesticated in Mada- 

 gascar; Apis indica, is educated in some parts of 

 India; and Apis Adansonii has been extensively 

 reared in Senegal. 



Although in Spain the number of hives is very 

 great we read of an old parish priest who had 5000 ! 

 in France the cultivation of the bee is not so much 

 attended to. 



The honey of Apis mellifica, L., is imported (from 

 Europe, Asia, and America, chiefly from Lisbon) to 

 Liverpool, at the rate of about twenty-seven tons a 

 year. Wax is imported from Europe, Asia, Africa, 

 and America, at the rate of twenty-five tons per 

 annum into Liverpool alone. 



