PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS. 9/ 
sive and useless^glass hive, or the 
hive of Dunhame). 
That which has principally given 
rise to so many hives of different forms 
and materials—some of straw, others 
of wood: some in the shape of square 
boxes, others adapted to open and shut 
like the leaves of a book**-—-is the 
theory of saving the bees, and at the 
same time depriving them of their 
honey, which, says a writer on this 
subject^, I consider as impracticable 
as well as unnecessary. It is unne¬ 
cessary, for no insect generates faster 
than the bee, as I have ascertained 
from actual experience, that in three 
* Vide plate II. fig. II, f Espinasse* Mm 
