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to melt and run down the side, leaving an unsightly 

 appearance on the glass ; but a little experience will 

 enable the operator to determine the degree of warmth 

 sufficient to make the comb adhere without .any of it 

 being melted. It is hardly necessary to state that only 

 the very whitest combs ought to be used. A short time 

 should be allowed before changing the position of the 

 glass, so that it may cool sufficiently to hold the cortib 

 in its place. Six or eight pieces may thus be fixed, so 

 that, when the glass is filled, it will present a star shape, 

 all the combs radiating from the- centre. 

 The antiexed illustration shows the appear- 

 ance -of a glass as worked by the bees, in 

 which guide-combs were fixed in the manner 

 described above. The drawing was taken froiii a glass 

 of our own, filled after being thus furnished. In the 

 Old Museum at the Royal Gardens, Kew, may be seen 

 a Taylor's glass, presented by us, some of the combs 

 in which are elongated on the outside to the breadth of 

 six inches. 



We believe that not only does a glass present a much 

 handsomer appearance when thus worked — and will, on 

 that account, most fully reward the trouble of fixing 

 guide-comb — but that more honey is stored in the same 

 space and in less time than if the glass be merely placed 

 on the hive in a naked condition for the bees to follow 

 their own course. This mode of fixing guide-comb 

 does not solely apply to the above-shaped glass, tut is 



