APPENDIX. 



TESTIMONIALS OF THE PRESS. 



GREAT EXHIBITION, 1851. 



^HE " Working Apiary " in the Great Exhibition of 1851 

 ■will long live in the remembrance of the many thousand 

 visitors who witnessed Vfith much interest the matchless 

 industry of its busy occupants. 



We extract the following from many notices that appeared in 

 the public journals relative thereto. 



In noticing the hives exhibited in the Crystal Palace, I would 

 say, first and foremost, in my opinion, stands Mr. Taylor's 

 Eight-bar Hive and Messrs. Neighbour, and Son's Improved 

 Cottage Hive, both exhibited by Messrs. Neighbour. — J. H. 

 Tayne, see " Cottage Gardener" Nos. 169, 170. 



From the " Illustrated London Neivs." 



Messrs. Neighbour's Apiary consists of a large glass case, 

 with parts of the sides covered with perforated zinc for the sake 



