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Soon after entering, the approach is found to curve gently toward the 

 house, which is presently seen from the most favorable point of view. A 

 very common fault with carriage drives is in having them cut up the lawn 

 to a needless extent. Sometimes either these or the walks, or perhaps both, 

 are made to approach the house from two front gates, and to curve from 

 each to the front porch, as if, indeed, bare ground or gravel were an orna- 

 ment instead of a necessary evil. The true idea is to have as few of these 

 walks and drives as possible, and by no means to make them conspicuous. 

 If it is possible to have the carriage drive pass along the side of the house, and 

 not cut up the front lawn at all, it would be better taste ; but where it must 

 go in front, it may be possible to so screen it with shubbery where it passes 

 the front windows, that it will not break the view across the lawn from 

 these important points of observation. 



BEE-YARDS IN THE ORCHARDS. 



fEARS ago, the opinion prevailed among fruit growers, that bees 

 injured fruit and the insect was generally looked upon as an enemy 

 of fruit growers. So widespread was this opinion, even among well 

 informed people, that a formal resolution was passed, at one of the meetings 

 of the Ontario Fruit Growers' Association, declaring the bee guilty of com- 

 mitting serious havoc among grapes and small fruit generally. She was thus 

 assigned a place among the pests of the Pomologist. The fruit-grower has 

 enough enemies to contend against, without adding to the list insects he 

 should esteem his best friends, creatures that, mstead of being accused of 

 mischief, should be looked upon as important agents in the fertilization of 

 flowers, and effective co-workers with the hybridist in producing new and 

 valuable varieties. 



The bee cannot be fairly classed among the fruit eaters, because " She 

 ain't made that way." She uses only her tongue and her legs in collecting 

 food while foraging. The only weapon at her command, capable of punctur- 

 ing fruit, is her sting, and this she only uses as a weapon of defense. She 

 never employs it to puncture fruit. To do so would be to put its owner's life 

 in jeopardy. Nine times out of ten when a bee stings she loses her only 

 means of defence and dies. Her jaws are formed with a view to the end 

 they were intended to serve, namely, baking, moulding and building wax 

 into beautiful symmetrical cells, and even this they cannot do until the 

 wax is softened by a high degree of heat within the hive. She finds her 

 food in the flower, not in the fruit. When hard pressed, she will appropriate 

 the juice of a ripe raspberry, or a luscious grape, but not until a mischevious 

 wasp has already punctured them, or a destructive bird partially 

 destroyed them ; but not then, with advantage to herself or the family for 



