EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 383 



see Fig. 20. (o) Front and rear of upper part of cover, one piece, 

 5j"x20J"x|", and one piece, 13$-" X 20|" x 1". (p) Sides of 

 upper part of cover, two pieces, each 5f" and 13^" x 27i"xi", 

 with rabbets, ^" x T V ; for shape, see Fig. 20. (q) Top of cover, 

 tongued and grooved from front to rear, and rain-grooved on top 

 (Fiss. 19 and 23), 24" x 30f"x|". (r) Honey-box cover, 21*" 

 x!9i"xi". (s) Clamps for honey-box cover, two pieces, 21|" 

 xi"xi". (2.) Triangular checks to hold the cover when elevated, 

 two pieces, 1 J" x If" x 2J" x i". ( 3.) Four buttons, 1 V' x 2" x |". 

 (w) Posts of surplus honey-box, four pieces, Ij"x8"xj". (x) 

 Front and rear bottom-strips of honey-box, two pieces. H"x 151" 

 x $". (y) Side-bottom strips of honey-box, two pieces, 21i"x$" 

 X I" ; (x) and (y} are halved together at ends. (2) Front, rear, 

 and side top pieces of honey-box, made up of two strips, 1 j-" x |" 

 x 17", two strips, Ij"x|"x21|", halved together at ends; and 

 two strips, 17|"x3"x J", two strips. 19i"xJ"x$". (4.) Clamps 

 for spare honey-board, two pieces, 21J"x"x". Glass, two 

 pieces 14x9, four pieces 18x9, and two pieces 14x8, for the 

 double glass of lower hive: two piecea 18x8, and two pieces 

 14x8, for the spare honey-box. 



Hive No. 5, Single-story Glass Hive. See Perspective opposite 



page 13 ; also the Figures referred to in Hive No. 4. 

 (a) Bottom-board, i" thick X 24i"x 36|", tongued and grooved 

 together, and halved out of, or rabbeted, across the grain of the 

 wood, }V' x iV> a t eacn f ^ ne l n = es t sides of the board, to fit 

 into grooves made in the side pieces of the lower part of the case , 

 the grain of the wood must run across the bottom, (d) Front and 

 rear of case : bottom part, front. 24 J" x 10 X ", cut out from the 

 centre of the length on one edge, 14"x i". and rabbet the other, 

 3^" x -j T g " ; rear, 24}"x3i"xi". rabbet one edge. &" x-^'*, and 

 cut out of the other edge to match the front, (e) Sides of case, 

 lower part, two pieces. 36J"x$"xlO&" wide 5" from one end, 

 and 3|" wide at the other, where one side of each piece should 

 be halved out J" on x^" deep, to receive the rear piece; at the 

 wide end. where the slant terminates, cut out for roof of portico, 

 l-j^-"x5", and rabbet the slant edges, -^g-"Xy\", out of the sides 

 opposite to the halving on the narrow ends : for shape of (e), (n), 



