64 THE BEE-KEEPER’S MANUAL. 
above all is a cover-hive with a hoop fitting out- 
side the crown- 
board, and a 
painted Zine 
ventilator at the 
apex. The price 
of this hive is 
35s., but 10s. can 
be saved by dis- 
pensing with 
windows and 
thermometer, 
while there is 
also a variation 
at 21s. in which 
the ventilator too 
is absent, the 
three glasses are 
reduced to one 
Taylox’s glass, 
and the crown- 
board cut down 
to an adapter, 
but one window 
is restored (no 
thermometer). 
Mr. James 
Lee also sends 
usa form of skep 
hive, fashioned 
upon our own 
author’s principle, and termed “Taylor's Improved 
