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the gardens behind the houses pleasantly face the Green 

 Park, so that the bees have an uninterrupted flight to 

 start with. They are also witlun easy range of the 

 richly-fljowered-gaaaieHsof Bucfcingham Palace and those 

 of the nobility cKid gentry who reside around the Parks. 

 To those, gardens, the bees of St. Jameses Place resort, 

 without waiting for any licence or certificate from the 

 royal and noble owners of the "honey-yielding preserves. 

 Being within a short distance of our establishment, when 

 this genflemajci's bees swarm, he generally sends to us for 

 assistance in hiving them. 



The neighbourhood of St. John's Wood and, indeed, 

 almost all the suburbs of London are favourable fiar the 

 productijon of honey. We mention St. John's Wood 

 because, from the fact of having kept bees there ourselves, 

 we are able to prove by experience that they do well 

 in that locality. We have several customers on nearly 

 all sides of the town, who have each had this year a 

 considerable surplus of honey in their "supers," after 

 leaving sufficient for the: bees themselves, in the lower or 

 stock hives. 



We exhibited in our window, in the autumn of 1864, 

 a super of fine honey from the apiary of Mr. Shirley 

 Hibberd, the proprietor and editor of the Gardeners' 

 Weekly Magazine. It consisted of a box containing 

 20 lbs. nett weight of honey, and was produced at Stoke 

 Newington, oiily 33- miles from the General Post Office. 



The Times' " Bee-Master, " whose letters from Tun- 



