Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ...Spring. A glass bell, placed upon the top of the bee-box, or glass hive, for I know not which is the more proper term, is soon filled with honey. The comb is remarkable for its whiteness and transparency, and the honey seems to be of the finest and purest kind. Mr. Jackson's father has several glass hives of a similar construction, at Waterford; and has, on different occasions, obtained two shillings and sixpence a pound for a glass bell and its contained honey. One bell produced, at this price, three pounds seventeen shillings and six pence; and two others about three pounds thirteen shillings each, having been purchased by a druggist in Bristol, as a substitute for the celebrated honey of Narbonne. WILD BEES IN AMERICA. 131 It is curious how places have become famed for one production, and continue to be so, while the generations of man pass away; nay, while the very laws and institutions of the country have been overthrown. A feeble plant may thus, in its descendants, survive the "wreck of empires," for Nature is ever fresh, vigorous, and unchanged, while human monuments crumble into dust. While Greece, at the present time, "Is Greece, but living Greece no more;" the honey of Hymettus retains all its former celebrity. Athens is no longer the abode of arts, eloquence, literature, or science, --but "still his honied wealth Hymettus yields; There the blythe bee his fragrant fortress builds; The free-born wanderer of the mountain air." Childe Harold, Canto II. St. 87. Washington Irving, in his "Tour on the Prairies," has given a very animated description of a bee-hunt in one of the great American forests, and states, in the following words, a remarkable opinion, which is held concerning the wild...
