The Foundation of the City 
the brood-cells, or perhaps would form part 
of the mysterious, motionless curtain in 
whose midst the waxmakers and sculptors 
would be at work. Similarly I have noticed 
that workers whom I have seen gathering 
pollen for the whole of one day, will bring 
no pollen back on the morrow, but will 
concern themselves exclusively with the 
search for nectar; and vice versé. 
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And further we might mention what 
M. Georges de Layens, the celebrated French 
apiarist, terms the “distribution of bees 
over melliferous plants.” Day after day, 
at the first hour of sunrise, the explorers 
of the dawn return, and the hive awakes 
to receive the good news of the earth. 
“The lime-trees are blossoming to-day on 
the banks of the canal.” ‘‘ The grass by the 
roadside is gay with white clover.” ‘The 
sage and the lotus are about to open.” 
‘“The mignonette, the lilies are overflow- 
ing with pollen.”” Whereupon the bees must 
organise quickly and arrange to divide the 
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