Advantages of Bee-keeping. 9 



used, as a stranger going among the bushes might be 

 stung. Fruit is invariably better and more plentiful 

 in the neighbourhood of bees. Many gardeners, 

 recognizing this fact, have taken a hive of bees into 

 a greenhouse and let it stop there for some time so 

 that fertilization can be carried out under Nature's 

 laws, which are more perfect than any artificial 

 fertilization carried on by man. 



It has been said that bees may be kept anywhere, 

 but this requires a little qualification. A great many 

 years ago there lived a famous bee-keeper in Holborn, 

 who kept his bees there. He said he could put a 

 hive on the top of the cross of St. Paul's Cathedral, 

 and would guarantee that they would get honey. 

 He tried experiments to see how far his bees would 

 go for honey. This is what he did. As the bees 

 flew out one morning to their daily work, he used a 

 flour dredger and sprinkled them all with flour. 

 Then he hastened off" to Hampstead Heath, and 

 found a lot of bees in the flowers there all covered 

 with flour. Doubtless they were his. Holborn 

 would be a very bad place for a bee-keeper now, as 

 would also the neighbourhood of large and smoky 

 towns. Apple, pear and cherry trees are perfectly 

 surrounded by bees when they are in bloom, and 

 cannot be surpassed for honey. The most important 

 general source of honey in England is white 

 clover, and the honey is very superior, being pure 

 white, The following passage from The British 



