NEIGHBOUR'S UNJC03IB HIVE. loi 



periods of the year. In the day time, in summer months, 

 the hive being- of double glass, the whole may be fully 

 exposed to view. If the temperature of the apartment 

 in which the hive stands be kept at 60 degrees, this extra 

 attention will not be so needful. As soon as the bees 

 are settled, comb-building will immediately commence, 

 and in about two weeks' time there will be comb spread- 

 ing over the whole hive. The queen may be viewed 

 depositing her eggs, and all the usual operations of the 

 rearing of brood, storing of honey, and the building of 

 combs, will be open to full inspection, with perfect ease 

 to the spectator. As an object of lively and permanent 

 interest for the breakfast-parlour or conservatory, the 

 unicomb observatory hive may be regarded as infi- 

 nitely superior to an aquarium or fernery. 



At the Exposition Universelle of 1855, in Paris, we 

 exhibited a hive of this description in full working; order. 

 The bees left London on the 5th of July of that year, 

 and were placed in the Exposition on the following- 

 morning'. An entrance was made for them . throug-h 

 the side of the building-, as before explained. Our bees 

 had no national antipathies, and they immediately sallied 

 forth to their "fresh fields and pastures new" in the 

 Champs Elysees, the gardens of the Tuileries, the 

 Luxembourg, &c., whence they soon returned laden with 

 luscious store from French flowers. 



The Jurors of the Exposition awarded us a prize medal 

 for bee-hives. 



