130 OBSERVATIONS ON THE 
or the countries which the bees in¬ 
habit being more or less wooded or 
covered with fhwers, and which have 
a peculiar influence on the fecundity 
of the queen ; from which arises that 
annual difference between the harvest 
of honey and was:, and the largeness 
or smallness of the swarms. To the 
same causes may be attributed why 
a mode of treatment, which has suc¬ 
ceeded one year will not succeed the 
next, although the circumstances be 
almost the same in appearance. If is 
these differences and variations which, 
for the space of fifty-Sve years, have 
given rise to hives of so many dif¬ 
ferent forms, &c* :—it is this species 
