BEE KEHPING. 
LOCATIONS SUITED TO THE KEEPING OF BEES. 
It may be safely said that any place where farming, gardening, or 
fruit raising can be successfully followed is adapted to the profitable 
keeping of bees—ina limited way atleast, if not extensively. Many of 
these localities will support extensive apiaries. In addition to this there 
are, within the borders of the United States, thousands of good loca- 
tions for the apiarist—forest, prairie, swamp, and mountain regions— 
where agriculture has as yet not gained a foothold, either because of 
remoteness from markets or the uninviting character of soil or climate. 
This pursuit may also be followed in or near towns and, to a limited 
extent, in large cities. It even happens in some instances that bees in 
cities or towns find more abundant pasturage than in country locations 
which are considered fair. 
The city of Washington is an example of this, bees located here doing 
better during the spring and summer months than those in the sur- 
rounding country, owing to the bee pasturage found in the numerous 
gardens and parks and the nectar-yielding shade trees along the streets. 
This is due mainly to the fact that the linden, or basswood, which is 
rarely seen in the country about Washington, has been planted exten- 
sively in the parks and for miles on both sides of many of the streets 
and avenues of the city. Another source in the city not found exten- 
sively in the country adjacent is melilot, Bokhara or sweet clover (J/eli- 
lotus alba), which has crept into vacant lots and neglected corners, 
and diffuses its agreeable perfume to the delight of all city dwellers, 
whether human or insect. The writer has practiced with profit the 
transportation of nearly a hundred colonies from a country apiary 10 
miles distant to Washington for the linden and sweet clover yield. He 
has also seen a prosperous apiary kept on the roof of a business house 
in the heart of New York City, and on several occasions has visited 
another apiary of 30 to 40 colonies, which a skillful apiarist had located 
on the roof of his store in the business portion of Cincinnati, Ohio, and 
from which 30 to 40 pounds of honey per colony were usually obtained | 
each year. 
@ Several species of lindens are included in these plantings, but none yields more 
than our common American linden, or basswood (Tilia americana). 
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