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is to watch the entrance; facility is afforded 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 apperture cut in the wall, so that 

 the bees go out at their pleasure into the open court, fly over the Annexe into 

 the Horticultural and other adjacent gardens, and return laden 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 tie " Gardener's Weekly Magazine" September 1, 1862. Conducted hy 

 Shirley Hibberd, Esq., F.JS.H.S. 



Neighbour and Son, 149, Regent Street, London, (2157).— This is the 

 most important of the exhibitions in this department. The " Bees at work" 

 are in hives open to the inspection of visitors, the bees passing out through 

 tubes to the open air, and not being visible within the buHduig except through 

 the glass of the hives. The collection of hives of all kinds is complete and inter- 

 esting, and we subjoin a figure of the stand (see page 100) to show how bees as 

 well as hives may be exhibited conveniently. Amongst the various con- 

 trivances exMbited by Messrs. Neighbotje, Nutt's Collateral Hive has an 

 important place, and though very fancifully got up, and therefore very 

 attractive to amateur bee-keepers, we must make the same objection to it 

 as we have above to other forms of the same from different makers. The 

 Single-box Hive, the Taylor's Shallow Eight-bar Hive, are the best bee-boxes 

 in this collection, and every way admirable. Here are no fancy ventilators 

 which the bees will close up, nor provoking side boxes which they will 

 hesitate to enter, and from which it will be hard to dislodge them in order 

 to get them to winter in the " paviHon." Whoever begins bee-keeping with 

 either of these will have a fair chance of success. The most popular of the 

 hives is that called the " Improved Cottage." Its popularity no doubt is due 

 to the compromise between wood and straw which it aoccomplishes. People 

 cannot get rid of the idea that a beehive must be made of straw, though it is 

 a material so Ul adapted for union of swarms, supering and other operations of 

 advanced bee culture. The " Cottager's Hive " is well adapted for " those 

 apiarians who are desirous of setting their poorer neighbours in the way of 

 keeping bees on the improved system." It consists of stock hive, small 

 super-hive, and straw cover, and is on the principle of Payne's, which has 

 been most successful among country people who have got so far as to prefer 

 keeping, to killing their bees. The " Woodbury Bar and Frame Hive" is 

 a novel construction, combining all the best features of the best bar boxes, 

 and adding some new ones of great value and importance. We recommend 

 every bee-keeper to become possessed of this admirable contrivance, with 

 which Mr. Woodbury has accomplished 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 moveable bars and 

 frames, after the German plan. Each bar has a projection running along 

 the under side ; this ridge is chosen by the bees for the foundation of combs. 



