The discussion of some of these topics, and dissertations on others, might be made amusing, perhaps interesting, and would, at all events, swell the size of my book; but whether I should thereby enhance its intrinsic merits (if intrinsic merit it possess) is more than I dare venture to affirm. In short, these topics come not within my plan,--they are foreign to it, and I gladly leave them to be treated of by others, whose learning is mare able to cope with them, and whose taste may direct them to such subjects. _I have withheld nothing that I deem to be essentially necessary to the thorough understanding of my mode of Bee-management;_ consequently, I anticipate that my two main objects will eventually be attained--that Bee-culture will become a pleasing and a profitable study--a source of instructive amusement and of profit too,--and that our country will, at no great distance of time, be everywhere studded and ornamented with neat, well-ordered apiaries. I will, therefore, now close my present labours with a few miscellaneous directions, chiefly recapitulatory, which, on account of their importance, every apiarian should constantly bear in mind. Have your Bee-boxes _well-made_, and _of good substantial materials_. Strength and durability are of greater consequence than neatness, though that need not be neglected--neatness and strength are not incompatible--they may be combined. Paint your boxes annually, when they are in their winter situation. Make a clear ground or floor-way from the pavilion into each of the end-boxes, by cutting away about two inches from the lower edge of each of the corresponding ends, to the depth of half an inch; and make this way or passage as near the front-entrance as it conveniently may be. This convenience has been suggested to me _since_ the directions for making collateral-boxes were printed, and I therefore mention it here as an improvement, because such a way on the floor, and _without any climbing_, will afford an additional accommodation to Bees on many occasions. Boxes will not work Bees, neither will Bees work boxes to advantage, unless due attention be paid to them--i. e. both to boxes and to Bees. Situation is of prime importance: for summer it should be clear and open in front of your boxes, and sheltered at their back by a north-wall or by a thick hedge. In summer let their aspect be south-east:--early in spring, and again in autumn, due south is the best point to be in front: therefore, as spring advances turn the front of your boxes eastward, and as summer declines move them back again to their spring aspect; or, in other words, when there is not more than twelve hours' sun, let the front of your boxes be due south; and during the time that the sun is more than twelve hours above the horizon, let it be south-east.