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we believe, to adopt his method, with what success we never 

 heard. This, however, with all particulars of 'the apian scheme 

 in question, might doubtless be easily obtained, and we would 

 seriously advise such as are bent on golden experiments (or 

 gilded, as they may happen to turn out) to try what they can 

 make of the golden riches of the hive. May not the eye of 

 the speculator foresee in the improved and extended cultivation 

 of English bees the ultimate extinction of colonial sugar- 

 canes, streams of honey flowing through the land, and streams 

 of gold, thence derived, flowing into his own coffers. 



May not this speculative seer behold also, in the march of 

 Puseyism, England Catholic England become not only a 

 land of honey but a land of wax of waxen tapers. May he 

 not anticipate in Britain a very Mexico for bees and bees' wax, 

 where, as at present in that most Catholic country, bees may 

 be turned to enormous profit through the immense consump- 

 tion of wax in church ceremonies. 



Thus, with the lover of lucre, as well as the lover of Nature, 

 bees are not without their claim to notice ; but how shall we 

 interest, in behalf of our humming favourites, the lover of 

 fashion ? 



Why, here again, incongruous as our advocacy may seem, we 

 must have recourse to Friend Schall. Did not the worthy 

 broad-brim attract, at the Society of Arts, the special attention 

 of the Prince Consort to himself and ingenious bee-hives? 

 and was he not honoured, moreover, with a royal order for a 



