ficulties to be provided against, and to recommend to their
consideration the advantages offered in the bar frame-hive. But,
however, I should not be doing justice to Mr. R. Golding, if I did not
particularly mention his "improved Grecian hive" by the use of which
combs may be removed from the interior of the hive and inspected at
pleasure: this improvement he has effected by carefully investigating
the laws of the insects for whose use the hives were intended, and by a
particular arrangement of the bars, (every alternate one being furnished
with guide combs,) the bees have been induced, in a manner at once
simple and beautiful, to construct a uniform range of combs. When the
hive is filled with honey, two or three, or more of the bars may be,
at any time, removed, or exchanged for unoccupied bars, without much
disturbing the brood combs, all annoyance from the bees being prevented
by a whiff or two of tobacco smoke being blown into the hive at the time
of the removal of the bars. With the protection of a bee-house these
hives can be applied to many of the systems of bee-management, and prove
equally profitable, and more manageable than some of the newly-invented
hives.

THE APIARY.

Next of importance to the kind of hive and the system to be followed, is
the proper situation of an apiary. This subject engaged the attention of
bee-keepers in ancient as much as in modern times; but the directions
given by Columella and Virgil are as good now as when they were written;
and as is observed by the writer in No. CXLI. of the Quarterly Review,
in the amusing article on "Bee-books,"--"It would amply repay (and this
is saying a great deal,) the most forgetful country gentleman to rub
up his schoolboy Latin, for the sole pleasure he would derive from the
perusal of the fourth Georgic." The aspect has been regarded as of the
first importance; but there are points of greater consequence, namely
the vicinity of good bee pasturage, the shelter of the hives from the
winds by trees or houses, and their distance from ponds or rivers, as
the high winds might dash the bees into the water.

Various aspects have been recommended, but the south, with a point to
the east or west, according to its situation as respects the shelter it
may receive from walls or trees, &c. is the best: care, however, must be
taken that neither walls, trees, nor anything else impede the going
forth of the bees to their pasturage.

"I have ever found it