230 Mr. J. G. Desborough on the Honey Bee. 



The Observatory hive has been this year more in a 

 natural state than during any former winter through 

 which it has been kept alive, and the queen began to lay 

 her eggs, from which brood has been reared, in the 

 month of February, but no cessation of breeding has 

 this year taken place, so that it would seem that the 

 ceasing to breed at this period of the year was the result 

 of the inclement weather, and was not a natural course 

 of events in the life of the queen. 



