§ XVIII.] INDOOR UNICOMB HIVE. 165 



and were placed in the Exposition on the following 

 morning. An entrance was made for them through 

 the side of the building, as before explained. Our bees 

 had no national antipathies, and they immediately sallied 

 forth to their "fresh fields and pastures new" in the 

 Champs Elysdes, the gardens of the Tuileries, the 

 Luxembourg, etc., whence they soon returned laden 

 with luscious store from French flowers. 



The Jurors of the Exposition awarded us a prize 

 medal for beehives. A prize was also adjudged to us 

 for the hive here described at the Crystal Palace Show 

 in 1874; while a variation that we have made — con- 

 sisting of four half-unicombs fixed crossway like the 

 sails of a windmill — obtained a like award at the 

 Alexandra Palace Bee Show in 1876. 



The unicomb observatory hive is one which might 

 have been suggested by the lines of Evans : — 



" By this blest art our ravisherl eyes behold 

 ' The singing masons build their roofs of gold,' 

 And mingling multitudes perplex the vien', 

 Yet all in order apt their tasks pursue. 

 Still happier they whose favoured ken hath seen 

 Pace slow and silent round, the state's fair queen." 



