TRANSATLANTIC BEES. 



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They would not care a rush (how should they ?) for the in- 

 formation of an American poet the nature-painting Bryan 

 when he tells us how that 



" The bee, a more adventurous colonist than man, 

 With whom he came across the eastern deep," 



is always (as becomes a wild-wood insect) the precursor of civi- 

 lization in the giant forests of his Transatlantic clime. 



To the strains of the poet (sing he never so sweetly) the ears 

 of the mammon worshipper the mere utilitarian are doubtless 

 deaf enough ; but the American poet has (or had) a quaker 

 countryman, named (we think) John Schall, who, on the sub- 

 ject of bees, is much more likely to move a sordid spirit. 



This gentleman, in the year 1845, was exhibiting in London 

 his American barrel hives of wood, constructed on the humane 

 principle of non-destruction to their busy inmates ; and in con- 

 nection therewith was the proposer of plans for bee cultivation 

 on an extensive and profitable scale. 



of 53u|ine^ ano of pleasure.' 



