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five, whatever combs are removed will be new 

 ones, which, on account of the purity both of the 

 wax and the honey, are greatly preferable to old 

 ones. 



VIRGIL, probably copying his predecessor 

 ARISTOTLE, describes two harvests of honey every 

 year, namely, in the spring and in the autumn. 



" The golden harvest twice each year o'erflows, 

 Thou, twice each year, the plenteous cells unclose, 

 Soon as fair Ple'ias, bright'ning into day, 

 Scorns with indignant foot the wat'ry way, 

 Or, when descending down th' aerial steep, 

 She pours her pale ray on the wintry deep." 



SOTHEBY'S GEORGICS. 



"VARRO mentions three harvests; namely, at 

 the rising of the Pleiads, about the twenty- 

 second of April ; the latter end of summer, and 

 when the same stars set about the end of Oc- 

 tober : COLUMELLA recommends them to take 

 place about the twenty-fifth of April and the 

 twenty-ninth of June ; PLINY in May and July ; 

 and PALLADIUS in June only." EVANS. 



Should such an accident occur as the destruction 

 of a queen, by the introduction of a divider (and 

 she might be so unfortunately situated as to fall 

 a sacrifice to it), the stock will appear very much 

 distressed and very restless all day, particularly if 

 there be no Royal Embryo or no very young 

 larva ; for in either of these cases they will soon 



