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SEVENTH CHAPTER. 



ON THE POSITION OF THE APIARY. 



DIFFERENT POSITION OF HIVES — LITTLE ATTENTION PAID TO ASPECT IN 

 ENGLAND — VISIT TO AN APIARY AT EAST GRINSTEAD — THE ASPECT OK 

 THE APIAH TO VARY WITH THE CLIMATE — THE HIVES TO BE PROTECTED 

 FROM THE WINDS — SINGULAR ANECDOTE RESPECTING BEES BY l'aBBE 

 DELLA ROCCA — THE HIVES IN AN APIARY TO BE PLACED IN A STRAIGHT 



LINE HEIGHT OF THE HIVES FROM THE GROUND — THE HIVES FOR "WANT 



OF ROOM MAY BE PLACED DIAGONALLY THE ADVANTAGES OF THE SINGLE 



PEDESTAL — MACHINE FOR THE PROTECTION OF HIVES AGAINST ROBBERS 

 — THE PLATFORM OF THE PEDESTAL TO BE MADE OF WELL SEASONED 

 WOOD — THE WARPING OF THE PLATFORM TO BE PREVENTED — THE ASCENT 



INTO THE HIVES BY THE ENEMIES OF THE BEES TO BE PREVENTED 



ERRONEOUS CUSTOM IN SUSSEX — LOSS OF A WHOLE APIARY BY BAD 

 MANAGEMENT — THE APIARY TO BE KEPT REMARKABLY CLEAN — NOT TO 

 BE INCOMMODED BY TALL HERBS OR SHRUBS — PROTECTION AGAINST THE 

 ANTS — SHEEPS' SKIN TO BE PUT ROUND THE PEDESTAL — THE PEDESTAL 

 TO BE CLEANED FOUR TIMES A YEAR — ANECDOTE OF A MOUSE IN A HIVE 

 — THE VICINITY OF GREAT TOWNS NOT A PROPER SITUATION FOR AN 

 APIARY — HIVE OF MR. SAUL HAVING A CONTINUAL CHANGE OF ASPECT — 

 PROXIMITY OF LARGE RIVERS INJURIOUS TO BEES. 



An apiary is the spot in which the bee hives are assembled. 

 Some persons prefer the open air for their hives, whilst 

 others place them in houses, constructed according to their 

 particular skill or taste. In the southern countries of 

 Europe, the aspect is always to the eastward, in the more 

 northern countries it is always to the eastward and the 

 southward, but in England little or no attention is paid to 

 it During a perambulation through Hampshire, we saw 

 the bee hives facing all the points of the compass ; and in 

 one garden, in which there were fifteen hives, not two of 

 them had the same aspect. 



In the vicinity of East Grinstead, we visited a farmer, 

 who had a small apiary consisting of about five hives, the 

 aspect of which was due north, and the hives were ranged 

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