72 USES OF HONEY. 



ind gardens and walks, and from many of the maple, locusts and other 

 shade trees along the streets and parks. Besides, bees -will fly three or 

 four miles for pasturage with profit. 



Mr.W. J. Pettitt has, for a number of years, conducted successfully an 

 Apiary of some fifty or sixty hives of bees in the heart of the city of Dover, 

 England, which find a good living and a surplus for the owner among 

 the innumerable flowers of various species that fringe the jutting edges 

 of the white cliffs about Dover 



Mr. Charles F. Muth, well known to the apiarians of the West, has, 

 for several years, kept an apiary in the city of Cincinnati ; which, we 

 believe, numbers between twenty and thirty hives. He is quite an 

 enthusiast, and finds them very interesting and profitable. 



Being perfectly satisfied of the feasibility of city beekeeping, we have 

 procured a large number of bees, and through courtesy of Mr. Hol- 

 land, president of the American Express Company, we have establish- 

 ed an interesting apiary upon the roof of their large building, 61 Hudson 

 street, New York, in the management of which we anticipate much 

 pleasure. We have no fears as to the source of their supplies, and we 

 recommend beekeeping as a profitable industry, to assist many families 

 in this, and the outskirts of other towns where there is space for placing 

 them. 



It was the opinion of Huish, a distinguished English writer on bees, 

 in 1817, that within the circumference of ten miles of London, ample 

 provision might be found for the support of ten thousand hives. Since 

 that time developments of this industry show that he has underrated 

 rather than overrated the capacity for bees, especially when applied to 

 our land of flowers. 



