Publisher's Synopsis
Among the beautiful things of the countryside, which are slowly but surely passing away, must be reckoned the old Bee Gardens-fragrant, sunny nooks of blossom, where the bees are housed only in the ancient straw skeps, and have their own way in everything, the work of the bee-keeper being little more than a placid looking-on at events of which it would have been heresy to doubt the finite perfection.