THE HONEY BEE. 
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Greek Islands, and is sometimes called the Candiote 
Hive. It is in the form of a flower-pot, open at the 
top, and provided with a flat cover in the same man- 
ner as the hive last described. As in this last, also, 
a certain number of bars are fastened to the upper- 
most roll of straw, each designed for the foundation 
of a comb ; and when prepared for use, the cover is 
laid above these bars, fixed at the edges by wooden 
pins, or sewed with pack-thread, and having the 
joining carefully plastered with clay. (See Plate 
X., fig. 4.) This hive affords considerable faci- 
lities for forcing the bees to work in wax. It is only 
necessary to remove one or two of the combs, and 
the bees will immediately commence filling up the 
vacancies. In this way, a portion of their honied 
stores may be abstracted without difficulty, and with- 
out having recourse to the barbarous practice of suf- 
focation. It affords also the means of making arti- 
ficial swarms. It will be observed that in conse- 
quence of the diameter of the hive gradually dimin- 
ishing towards the bottom, rods inserted through the 
body of the hive are rendered unnecessary, the 
wedge-like form of the combs serving sufficiently to 
support them. “ The hives,” says Wheeler in his 
Journey into Greece, “ are made of willows or osiers, 
fashioned like our common dust-baskets, wide at top, 
and narrow at the bottom, and plastered with clay or 
loam within and without. The tops are covered with 
broad flat sticks, which arc also plastered over with 
clay ; and, to secure them from the weather, they 
cover them with a tuft of straw as we do. Along 
