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same appearances. This difference of seasons ha^ 

 occasioned all the various construction of hives, 

 which serve only to show, that the Bee will work in 

 any hollow vessel, that will conceal her from view, 

 and guard her from the weather. To illustrate this 

 fact, I have sketched the form of several different 

 hives, as well as to illustrate a more important fact, 

 that every system is bad, that destroys the Bees to 

 rob the hives, and that all the systems are good, 

 which preserve the Bees, and divide their labours for 

 the use of man, without injury to the swarms ; but 

 more particularly to show, that the storying system, 

 is one of the best modes, and that his new invented 

 hive is the very best*. 



CHAP. VI. 



On the position of the Apiary , or Bee-House. 



This is the place where the hives are assembled, 

 whether in the open air, or under cover, called the 

 bee-house. In southern countries, Mr. Finish ob- 

 serves, the aspect should always be to the east, to 

 2;ive the Bees the first light of the dawn. In nor- 

 thern countries, the aspect should be between south 

 ~ind east, to enjoy the morning dawn, under a shelter 

 from the north winds. In England, he observes, the 

 aspect is often in all directions, but adds, they should 

 be secure against the winds. The hives should al- 

 ways stand upon a right line, in a single row ; that 

 rows one above the other do well, but seldom when 

 double upon the same shelf as they are more ex- 

 posed to robbery from each other ; that the Bee, in 



* Quere. Whether the new invented hive of the author, with its 

 roiivex top, might not be applied to the storying system, and thus 

 complete i-ts perfection. It may be worth aa experiment, 



