APPENDIX. 



BEES AT THE EXHIBITION OF 1862. 



The annexed figure represents our stand in the Agricultural 

 Department of the International Exhibition of 1862. The space 

 granted us in the World's Great Fair was somewhat limited ; but 

 we were able to exhibit a tolerably complete stock of apiarian 

 apparatus, and all the more important beehives. Amongst these 

 was a unicomb hive stocked with Italian bees. This was an object 

 of great attention, and daily Irundreds of visitors flocked round our 

 stand in order to watch the movements of the Italian queen with 

 her gay and busy subjects. The entrance-.way for the bees being 

 in the "Open Court,'' to which all visitors had access, it was 

 necessary to place the hive in' an elevated position, so that it should 

 be beyond the reach of incautious passers-by, and to obviate any" 

 chance of annoyance to the vast crowds of people continually 

 around. 



