my friends with as many as they require at hali a guinea, for which 

 they pay double or treble in the shops ; whilst those who think nothing 

 can be good except it is high-priced, and do not like the trouble of 

 making their own hives, may go to any cost they like. The preceding 

 woodcut represents a hive on this principle, but with certain modi- 

 fications, which may be obtained of Mr. Neighbour, 149, Regent- 

 street, and will suit the class of Bee keepers last mentioned. Mr. 

 Neighbour has, I may mention, made arrangements for supplying 

 Ligurian Queens of the greatest purity. 



" A DANOINO BeAE BT TEADE WAS HE, 



"And Honet loved bxceedinqlt." — Page 35. 



This "Bar" story is an addition to, and improvement on, one which I 

 recollect to have read in some American publication. A man who 

 had dropped into a hollow tree is hoisted up by the same "living 

 ladder." He, if I remember rightly, grasped the hinders of the Bear 

 with one hand, and with the other prodded him with his Bowie 

 knife, so as to change his descending into an ascending motion. 



Honey Cakes. — The French use the word Gateaux. I wish the name 

 "Honey Cakes" were universally adopted by Bee-masters. It would 

 supply a meaning which the word' " comb " does not at all. A honey 

 comb may be as dry as dust, whilst the "honey cake" places before 

 the eyes of the imagination a, full comb well sealed over, with here 

 and there a drop of clear honey oozing out, as a sample of the 

 store within. Perfectly sealed honey cakes may be kept without 

 deterioration through the winter, by wrapping them up separately 

 in clean writing paper, and then packing them away in a tin, each 

 cake being placed as it stood in the hive. If Bar-Frame Hives 

 are used, the cakes should not be out away from the frame till 

 wanted ; they should be stored away in some close box, fitted to 

 receive them. 



"And covee him feom top to toe." — Page 43.— Bee literature contains 

 many instances of persons having been completely enveloped in a 

 swarm of Bees, who by remaining perfectly still did not receive a 

 siogle sting. Old Thorley, in his McAMrcroAoyta tells the story 

 of his maid-servant being so covered iu a manner very quaint and 

 charming. Perfect quiet under these cu'cumstances is essential to, and 

 will secure, safety; whilst any thing which can enrage 20,000 

 soldiers, armed with a poisoned dart, may lead to fatal results. 

 Since I wrote the above, a story has appeared in the newspapers, 

 and is, I fear a true one, as names, dates and places are given, of 



