PREFACE TO THE SECOND NEW EDITION. 



As there are so many writers on bees at the present day, it has 

 appeared to the writer of this worli that another edition of this is 

 hardly needed; and having already sold over twenty thoosand of 

 them, I had concluded, in case the public demanded it, to publish a 

 much larger work ; but at present the demand appears to be more for 

 a new edition than for a much larger treatise, and I have concluded 

 to revise and enlarge the last edition a little, and let it come before 

 the public for what it is worth. 



J.H.WEEEES. 

 Weit Fanrn, Salisbury, Marehi., 1834. 



