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admirable contrivance, with which Mr. Woodbury has accom- 

 plished wonderful things in the multiplication of the new race of 

 Ligurian bees. In general form and proportions it resembles 

 Taylor's and Tegetmeier's boxes, but in the arrangement of the 

 bars it is unique. The stock-box is furnished with ten movable 

 bars and frames, after the German plan. Each bar has a projec- 

 tion running along the under side ; this ridge is chosen by the 

 bees for the foundation of combs, rendering guide-combs unne- 

 cessary. The supers have glass sides and eight bars, so that the 

 operator need never be in doubt when to add another box above, 

 or take away the harvest. 



The " Unicomb," or one-comb observatory hive, is intended 

 solely for purposes of observation, and though furnished with 

 doors to keep up a uniform degree of heat, Messrs. Neijghbour 

 have found in their experience at the Regent's Park Gardens and 

 elsewhere, that the bees manifest no dislike to a continual ex- 

 posure to light. As this elegant contrivance can be placed in the 

 window of a drawing-room, it is adapted to the amusement and 

 instruction of the family circle, as well as to the more serious 

 objects of the entomologist and scientific apiarian. All that is 

 necessary is to coimect the outlet with the open air by means of a 

 length of tubing or wooden tunnel, and the bees pass in and out 

 without obtaining access to the room, and all the mysteries of 

 the hive are open to daily observation. There are numerous 

 other hives, bee-feeders, bee-armour, &c., &c., which we have 

 not space to notice, but which we advise our apiarian friends to 

 inspect, as the collection of Messrs. Neighbour illustrates fiilly 

 every department of this interesting subject. 



