APPENDIX. 



TESTIMONIALS OF THE PEESS. 



GREAT EXHIBITION 1851. 



The " Working Apiary" in the Great Exhibition of 1851, will long live in 

 remembrance of the many thousand visitors who witnessed with 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. TiYLoa's Eight-bar Hive, and Messrs. 

 N EiGHBOTJR AND Son's Improved Cottage Hive, both exhibited by Messrs. 

 Neighbottk. — J. S. Payne, see Cottage Gardener, Nos. 169, 170. 



From He " Illustrated London News." 



Messrs. Neighbotjk's Apiary consists of a large glass case, with parts of 

 tlie sides covered with perforated zinc, for the sake of ventilation. This apiary 

 contains three hives; first Neighbour's Ventilating Box-Hive, containing 

 from 15,000 to 20,000 bees, which were hived on the 30th of April of the 

 present year, the day J)efore that of the opening of the Great Exhibition; 

 Neighbour's Observatory Glass Hive, containing about the same number as 

 the box-hive ; and a two storied square box-liive, with sloping roof. Prom 

 this latter, however, the bees decamped within a week after they had been 

 hived, owing to some disturbance, or perhaps, to the dislike taken by the bees 

 to their new habitation. The Ventilating Box-Hive is, in shape, square, 

 having windows and shutters. The entrance is at the back, enabling the bees 

 to go to Kensington Gardens, or other resorts, when thej please. Above the 

 wooden box is placed a bell glass, into whioli the bees ascend to work 

 through circular opening in, the top of the square box. In the top of the 

 bell-glass is an aperture through which is inserted a tubular trunk of perforated 

 zinc, to take off the moisture from within. The Observatory Hire is of glass, 

 with a superior crystal compartment, an opening being formed between the 

 two ; the bees are at present forming a comb in this upper glass, which affords 

 a very interesting sight, as generally speaking, the bees are in such a cluster 

 when at work that one can scarcely view their mathematically formed cells. 



