28° 
the same time, avoid the danger of leaving the under 
nier without a supply of provisions for the winter. 
This is an occurrence which is not every year p 
ticable, in northern climates, when the Scottish hive 
formed only of a simple hive, with an ordinary swar 
under which an empty box is placed. ‘The success of this — 
experiment is not certain once in two or three years, unless — 
a sufficient depth is given to the panniers of the Scottish 
hive, to afford room, and prevent the incumbrance of the 
multitude of bees, engaged in filling the last cells, whiclr 
are emptied of nymphs, newly metamorphosed into bees. 
It is therefore time and space, which were wanting in — 
the plan of M. Bourdonnaye. ‘This time and space are — 
completely supplied by the pyramidal hive. A larger — 
“space was required than the two hives afford; seeing that 
_ the multiplication of bees occasions an incumbrance, after 
the couvain of the preceding summer, and that of the 
Spring, are hatched and united. ia 
_ All difficulties are removed by the addition of the third 
box. The middle box will be filled with combs in le 
than ten days, and as soon as the cells are formed, th 
are supplied with eggs, by the rapid and successive depo 
of the queen. 
The addition of the third box, affords more room for the 
bees, than they had in the Scottish hive. There is no 
more inconvenience or embarrassment; the whole colony 
moves regularly; each working bee arrives easily at its 
place, and the work advances with inconceivable prompti- — 
tude. These insects are very laborious, and seldom relax — 
their labours but for want of room. a 
The third pannier is also very useful to the bees, in the 
excessive heats and storms in the months of July and A 
gust. They can then be safe from the plundering attacks 
of birds, and the rapacity of hornets and wasps, who make 
war on them, when they are too much crowded to find 
room in the hive. . ant 
‘The pyramidal hive is composed of three panniers or 
boxes, placed one under the other, in the following order... 
Ist. The simple hive. We will suppose a swarm 
come off on the 2ist of June, 1827. ‘This swarm passes 
the summer, autumn, and winter, in the simple hive, and 
will be nine months old on the 21st day of March, 1828. _ 
2d. The Scottish hive. This is formed by placing 
box or pannier, under the simple hive, on the 21st Marel 
