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LEAF-HIVES. 



But this arrangement did not sufficiently employ 

 these industrious creatures ; for contrary to their 

 usual mode of building, which is from above down- 

 wards, they laid two other foundations of comb, 

 upon the upper parts of the cross sticks. 



The bees now wrought upwards and downwards 

 at the same time, till the originally separate por- 

 tions were united and become one comb. 



For want of proper precautions, the bees of this 

 hive perished, during the intense cold of January 

 1820. 



On the 25th of March following, Mr. Dunbar 

 introduced another swarm into the same unicomb 

 hive ; and so early as the 27th, he saw the queen 



