vil INTRODUCTION. 
their hive from Greece, have in some cases a thou- 
sand colonies to the square mile, sustain a Journal 
and Associations in their interest, and government 
encourages their culture. Of the 202 species of the 
Apis genus, Hardie, in his America, says there are 
111 in England, where they receive deserved atten- 
tion, 
* The following anecdote from the Mark Lane Ezpress, is in 
point: 
A bishop was holding his first visitation of the clergy of his 
diocese, in a town in one of the midland countries. Among 
those assembled he soon discovered an old college acquaintance, 
whom he had not seen for a great number of years, but whom 
he greeted with all the warmth of a renewed friendship. On 
comparing notes with his friend, the bishop learned with regret 
that he was still a curate in a country village, at a stipend of 
one hundred pounds a year, and that he had a wife and large 
family to support. The worthy curate, however, invited the 
bishop to spend a day with him before he left the neighborhood, 
and the latter, not wishing to appear proud, accepted the invita- 
tion. On reaching the parsonage, he was surprised to find his 
friend’s wife an elegant, well-dressed lady, who received him 
Without any of the embarrassment which a paucity of means 
occasions in those who’ feel its pressure. The children, too, 
were all well-dressed, and looked anything rather than as hay- 
ing suffered from the pinching pains of unappeased hunger. But 
the good bishop’s astonishment was still greater when he sat 
down to partake of a repast worthy of the traditional and cus- 
tomary fare of his order, and was invited to “take wine” of the 
purest flavor and aroma with his fair and graceful hostess. 
Knowing that his friend was originally a poor man, he consider- 
ed that he must have received a fortune with his wife. After, 
therefore, the latter and the children had withdrawn, the bishop 
