The Apiary at ArcAdiA. 
The Agassiz Association believes 
not merely in nature for recreation and 
education but in the utility of nature. 
While it does especially favor pure 
science, it always has kind assistance 
for the practical. We believe first of 
all in nature for her own sake and for 
The honeybee is justly regarded as one 
of the most wonderful insects, and that 
wonder is not lessened by the fact that 
it is the only insect from whose labor 
mankind obtains food. The honeybee 
has the same aesthetic and practical 
relation to the body that the silkworm 
has to wearing apparel and its decora- 
OUR EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC, ALTRUISTIC APIARY. 
her educational and recreational values. 
All the achievements of modern 
science, or nearly all, have been devel- 
oped on that principle. It has been 
the amateur camerist and the amateur 
fisherman and the amateur astronomer, 
yes, even the amateur gardener, that 
has developed all these lines to high 
ideals and efficiency. 
Primarily it has been love for the 
honeybee and not love of the honey 
that has developed ArcAdiA’s apiary. 
tion. Both combine in a rare manner 
the aesthetic, the mentally marvelous 
and the practical. 
The editor of this magazine began 
his studies with honeybees some twenty 
years ago in a simple building on Grove 
Street, Stamford, where for several 
years the work was continued person- 
ally. That building and the equipment 
were moved to Sound Beach at the 
establishment of the first ArcAdiA 
under the ownership of The Agassiz 
