The Life of the Bee 



unfailing, abundant treasure into which 

 every subsequent writer has dipped. And 

 though a few mistakes may be found 

 therein, a few incomplete truths ; though 

 since his time considerable additions have 

 been made to the micrography and prac- 

 tical culture of bees, the handling of 

 queens, etc., there is not a single one of 

 his principal statements that has been 

 disproved, or discovered in error; and 

 in our actual experience they stand 

 untouched, and indeed at its very 

 foundation. 



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Some years of silence followed these 

 revelations; but soon a German clergy- 

 man, Dzierzon, discovered parthenogene- 

 sis, /'. e. the virginal parturition of queens, 

 and contrived the first hive with movable 

 combs, thereby enabling the bee-keeper 

 henceforth to take his share of the harvest 



