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.lamc ap|)earances. This difference of seasons has 
occasioned all the various construction of hives, 
which serve only to show, that the Bee will work in 
any hollow vessel, that will conceal her from view, 
and guard her from the weather. To illustrate this 
fact, 1 have sketched the form of several different 
hives, as well as to illustrate a more important fact, 
that every system is bad, that destroys the Bees to 
rbb the hives, and that all the systems are good, 
which preserve the Bees, and divide their labours for 
the use of man, without injury to the swarms ; but 
more particularly to show, that the storying system, 
IS one of the best inodes, and that his new invented 
hive is the very best*. 
CHAP. VI. 
On the position of the Apiary, or Bee- House. 
This is the place where the hives are assembled, 
whether in the open air, or under cover, called the 
bee-house. In southern countries, Mr. Huish ob- 
serves, the aspqct should always be to the east, to 
give the Bees the first light of the dawn. In nor- 
thern countries, the aspect should be between south 
and east, to enjoy the morning dawn, under a shelter 
from the north winds. In England, he observes, the 
aspect is often in all directions, but adds, they should 
be secure against the winds. The hives should al- 
ways stand upon a right line, in a single row ; that 
rows one above the other do well, but seldom when 
double u|)on the same shelf — as they are more ex- 
posed to robbery from each other ; that the Bee, in 
* Qu^re. Whether the new invented hive of the author, with its 
convex top, might not be applied to the storying system, and thus 
ccmnlete its peidection. It may be worth an experiment. 
