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from the " Illustrated Neius of the World" September 6, 1862. 

 One of the most interesting and instructive objects is the honey- 

 bee at full work in transparent hives. In the International Ex- 

 hibition, Class 9, Eastern Annexe, Messrs. Neighbour and 

 Son of Holborn and Regent Street, exhibit, amongst a coUectio!: 

 of the most approved bee hives and apparatus, a glass hive, stocked 

 with a colony of Italian Alp bees. The hive is so constructed as 

 to admit of easily seeing the queen surrounded by the working 

 bees. Contrary to the long-established notion that the bees work 

 only in the dark, this hive is completely open to broad daylight. 

 The bees do not manifest the least dislike to the exposure, and 

 they are not discomfited when light is occasionally admitted for 

 inspecting them. It is obvious that a knowledge of this new 

 feature must tend to a more general acquaintance with the habits 

 and hidden mysteries of the bee than has hitherto been the case. 

 The queen may be seen depositing the eggs in the cells ; in this 

 manner she goes on multiplying the species, the working-bees 

 surrounding her, and paying the most deferential attention, with 

 their heads always towards her. Not the least interesting part 

 is to watch the entrance ; facility is aiForded for doing so, the 

 sunken way communicating with the hive being covered with 

 a flat piece of glass. The busy throng pass and repass through 

 the aperture cut in the wall, so that the bees go out at 

 tUeir pleasure into the open court, fly over the Annexe into the 

 Horticultural and other adjacent gardens, and return ladsn with 

 crystal sweets gathered from the flowers. The novelty of being 

 able to inspect living bees, and those of a new variety, as easily 

 as goods in a shop window, will well repay the trouble of finding 

 Messrs. Neighbour's stand. These gentlemen will no doubt 

 cheerfully give any information that may be required. 



From the " Gardener'' s Weekly Magazine^'' September i, 1862, 

 Conducted by Shirley Hibberd, Esq., F.R.H.S. 



Neighbour and Son, 149, Regent Street, London (2157).-^ 



