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Tristram, who was supposed to be at work clipping the privet hedge around the apiarium, was engaged in the summer-house, at the far end of it, upon business of his own. This business the nature of which shall be explained hereafter completely engrossed him. Nor did he even hear the restless hum of the bees at the mouth of the hive, ten paces away, nor the noisy bustle of the drones.

He looked into her face, and, finding it white as a sheet, lifted her in his arms and carried her into the pavilion. "We must have an apiarium," Captain Barker announced a week later. "What's that?" Mr. Swiggs asked. "Half a dozen beehives, at least." "No room." "There is nothing," pursued Captain Barker, "that gives such character to a garden as an apiarium unless it be fishponds.

Here were courts, baths, porticoes, and terraces, in the villa urbana, or residence of the lord, the villa rustica for the steward and slaves, the gallinarium for hens, the apiarium for bees, the suile for swine, the villa fructuaria, including the buildings for storing corn, wine, oil, and fruits, the horius, or garden, and the park, containing the fish-pond and the vivarium.

I will have both." "No water." "The fishponds shall be constantly supplied with running water. I will have three ponds at different levels, connected with miniature waterfalls and approached by an allee verte. The glimpse of water between green hedges will be extremely refreshing to the eye. The apiarium shall stand close to these ponds as Virgil commends:"