WHO OUGHT TO KEEP BEES? 161 



Bee-keeping requires no physical strength, 

 just a little knowledge, a little patience, a little 

 pluck and presence of mind, a little painstaking 

 day by day, a little sympathy for the wonder- 

 ful wisdom, and hard, self-denying work of the 

 bees, and then after a time success is sure to come. 



Bee-keeping means work in the open air 

 amidst sunlight and flowers. It helps the power 

 of observation, it gives health and nerve, and 

 above all, it must teach reverence for the Great 

 Power that has endowed one section of His work 

 with so much wisdom and untiring industry. 



Honey. 



If you don't keep bees it is so much waste, 

 because the flowers contain the sweet nectar that 

 the bees make into honey, and by their shapes, 

 colours, and scents, are calling for them to come 

 and gather it. A bee's visit is necessary for the 

 vigour and life of plants. 



Very beautiful is the colour and shape of 

 flowers, and very refreshing is their perfume. 

 They add to the refinement of our mind and give 

 beauty to a house and garden as nothing else can 

 or does. But in the first instance they were not 

 meant for that. All their various tints of colour, 

 their differing shapes, their shades of scent, were 

 meant to attract the bees and other insects. 



Their brightness, shape, and perfume are 



