Honey -Comb. 



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When the pollen, or bee-bread, as it 

 generally is called after Miss Apis has 

 gathered it and mixed it with honey, has 

 been pushed into the cell, it is patted down 

 and perhaps a little more honey added to 

 it. When the cell is full, it is capped over 

 like the cells that contain honey. 



Sometimes a whole comb will be filled 

 with bee-bread, and sometimes a comb will 

 contain part bee-bread and part honey. 



Miss Apis is fond of bee-bread, but wt 

 are not. We gladly take away her honey, 

 but we do not care to rob her of her bee- 

 bread. It has a curious taste 

 ich I should like to describe to you, 

 but I can only say it tastes like 

 bee-bread, and like nothing else in 



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Woodbine. 



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