§ XI.] BEE-KEEPING IN LONDON. 329 



of these hives were also exhibited by the Acdimatisation 

 Society of Great Britain, with living bees in them, at the 

 Fish Department of the Royal Horticultural Gardens, 

 South Kensington, and prospered satisfactorily until re- 

 moved, the space being required for other objects. 



A gentleman residing in St. James's Place has, for some 

 considerable time past, kept bees in his garden there. 

 He uses our improved cottage hives, and his bee-keep- 

 ing is decidedly successful, as he generally takes some 

 fine glasses of honey each season, besides leaving suffi- 

 cient as winter store for the bees. For a London situation, 

 St. James's Place is a very favourable one ; the gardens 

 behind the houses pleasantly face the Green Park, so 

 that the bees have an uninterrupted flight to start with. 

 They are also within easy range of the richly flowered 

 gardens of Buckingham Palace and those of the nobility 

 and gentry who reside around the Parks. To those 

 gardens the bees of St. James's 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 

 gentleman'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 for the 

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

 because, from the fact of having kept bees there our- 

 selves, we are able to prove by experience that they do 



