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cover neatly made of stravr, but so contrived that on application 

 to the attendant it can be removed instantly, thus illustrating more 

 particularly the curious workmanship of these amusing insects. 



Her Majesty the Queen and the Prince Consort, with the 

 Royal Children, were some time engaged in watching with deep 

 interest the busy scene before them, aud putting many questions 

 relating to the habits and economy of the honey-bee. 



INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. 



From the " Illustrated London Nenus," August 16, ig62. 

 One of the most interesting and instructive objects in the 

 Exhibition is a transparent hive, in which the bees may be seen 

 at full work. Aaiong the collection of bee-hives exhibited by 

 Messrs. Neighbour and Son, is one of glass, stocked with » colony 

 of Italian Alp bees. Here the queen-bee may be seen surrounded 

 fay her subjects, which pay the most deferential attention to their 

 sovereign. Through an aperture cut in the wall, the busy throng 

 of bees are continually passing and repassing. They go out at 

 their pleasure into the open court, fly over the annexe into the 

 grounds of the Horticultural Society and other adjacent gardens, 

 aad return laden with sweets. 



From the " Journal qf Horticulture," October »i, i8fi». 

 G. Neighbour, and Sons, 149, Regent Street, and 117, Hol- 

 bora, No. Z157, have a very handsome and complete stall, on 

 ascending the steps of which we found a flourishing stock of 

 Lig^rians, apparently not at all ashamed of the public position 

 which they occupied, and working vigorously in the full light of 

 day. The queen, one of the largest and finest-coloured we have 

 met with, was perambulating the combs and receiving the homage 



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