APPENDIX. 
THE ITALIAN OR LIGURIAN BEE— ITS ADVAN- 
TAGES AND ACCLIMATIZATION. 
Description of the Italian or Ligurian Bee — The manner of in- 
troducing strange Queens into a Hive, and hence of intro- 
ducing Italian Queens — Means of preserving a pure Breed, 
Italian bees, called also Ligurians, are natives of 
countries on the other side of the Alps. These bees 
have the same organization as those found on this 
side of the Alps, with this difference only — that the two 
first rings of the abdomen are either of a yellowish 
brown or straw colour, depending on the locality. 
They are also longer in the body than the bees of 
our country, and they have the great advantage, 
owing to the length of their tongue, of being able 
to gather honey from the calyx of flowers, to which 
the other bees cannot reach. 
The Alps, with their eternal snows, have been a 
hindrance to the crossing of the breed, so that it is 
only in the last few years that they have been intro- 
