344 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. [Ch. vi, 



Germany, where a country gentleman's table is kept 

 constantly supplied with fresh honey, the gardeners are 

 expected to understand the management of hives ; and 

 in Bavaria modern bee-culture is taught in the colleges 

 to all the horticultural "students. Travellers in Switzer- 

 land will call to mind the almost invariable practice of 

 placing new honey on the breakfast tables at hotels in 

 that country. We are told that some of this new honey so 

 highly approved of is only golden syrup with a portion 

 of the colour extracted, and possibly otherwise made up to 

 be palatable ; also that there is a factory in Switzerland 

 doing a profitable business in this way. If such be the 

 case, tourists are often taken in. Treacle will do no one 

 any harm, but it is not pleasant to be gulled except for the 

 reason that " ignorance is bliss." 



Caution Respecting Flight Hole. 



Fine colonies are sometimes destroyed by the entrance- 

 way becoming stopped by some impediment or other,, 

 and care is requisite to keep a watch, that so fatal a 

 catastrophe does not happen, because the bees {unless, 

 where very ainple ventilation is give?i), excited by their 

 imprisonment, make matters worse, by raising the tem- 

 perature of their hive to such a pitch that the combs 

 melt from their foundations, and the bees themselves are 

 suffocated, presenting, alas ! a most woful spectacle to 

 witness. 



AVe give this hint because of having ourselves suffered 



