PRACTICAL TREATISE ON BEES. 
CHAPTER I. 
On Bees in general. 
I SHALL wave a descrifition of the different species of 
Bees disseminated throughout the natural world by 
the great Author of Nature, and confine my remarks 
solely to the common Bee, or honey fly, particularly, 
as the most social, sagacious, interesting and useful, 
of ail the instinctive tribes of animals. , 
The Abbe Rosier, one of the best informed of the 
French agriculturists, particularizes four species of 
the domestic Bees. The first species are very long 
and brown ; the second are less, and almost black ; 
the third are still less, and of a grey colour; the 
fourth are still Jess, and of a bright yellow, shining 
and polished, and- known only in Flanders. 
The Bee rises with the dawn, and rests- only at the 
dusk of evening, and continues her industry through- 
out the year, in all countries where the frosts of win- 
ter do not impede her labours. The Bee is the only- 
insect whose sagacity has taught us, that honey con- 
stitutes the essence of the blossoms of plants, and by 
her industry has imjiarted to man the luscious boon. 
The whole vegetable world is the garden of the Bee, 
and her cell her store-house. 
The community of the Bees is the first, the great- 
est, and best example in nature, of a perfect commu- 
nity. In their harmony and good order, mutual en- 
terprise, and efforts to promote the general good, in 
their ardour of pursuit in quest of stores, to load 
