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             Jamaican honey and bees wax  

             were exhibited in the Jamaica
             Court in the main building


There are very few representations of buildings at the 1891 Exhibition apart from the main building. However, to visit the apiary you would have had to walk past the Lascelles Demercado Pavilion, and there is a drawing of that building.


  Lascelles Demercado Pavilion



Plans for the apiary:

The construction of the Apiary has begun. This will be a very neat building when finished. It is of an octagonal shape 24 feet in width and formed of rustic wood. It will be open on all sides with artistic curtains looped to the pillars. The centre will consist of a circular stand, inside of which an attendant will sell honey  &c. and outside, ranged round the building, will be the hives, and a hive will surmount the building forming a kind of terminal to the roof which is to be of canvas.

Messrs. Lascelles DeMercado and Company's pavilion is making progress, the framework being finished.

Daily GLeaner, October 2,  1890


 At the end of the Exhibition awards were presented to beekeepers who had entered exhibits:



                       Daily Gleaner, May 28, 1891

The apiary was among the Exhibition buildings sold off later in 1891, as part of the effort to cover the losses sustained by the Exhibition.


          Daily Gleaner, August 3, 1891

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