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duced, we believe, to adopt his method, with what success 

 we never heard. This, however, with all particulars of the 

 apian scheme in question, might doubtless be easily obtained, 

 and we would seriously advise such as are bent on golden ex- 

 periments (or gilded, as they may happen to turn out) to try 

 what they can make of the golden riches of the hive. May not 

 the eye of the speculator foresee in the improved and extended 

 cultivation of English bees the ultimate extinction of the colo- 

 nial sugar-canes, streams of honey flowing through the land, and 

 streams of gold, thence derived, flowing into his own coffers. 



May not this speculative seer behold also, in the march of 

 Puseyism, England Catholic England become not only a 

 land of honey but a land of wax of waxen tapers. May he 

 not anticipate in Britain a very Mexico for bees and bees' 

 wax, where, as at present in that most Catholic country, bees 

 may be turned to enormous profit through the immense con- 

 sumption of wax in church ceremonies. 



Thus, with the lover of lucre, as well as the lover of Nature, 

 bees are not without their claim to notice ; but how shall we 

 interest, in behalf of our humming favourites, the lover of 

 fashion ? 



Why, here again, incongruous as our advocacy may seem, we 

 must have recourse to Friend Schall. Did not the worthy 

 broad-brim attract, at the Society of Arts, the special attention 

 of the Prince Consort to himself and ingenious bee-hives ? 

 and was he not honoured, moreover, with a royal order for a 



