Neighbour and Son, 149, Regent Street, London, (2157).--This is the most important of the exhibitions in this department. The "Bees at work" are in hives open to the inspection of visitors, the bees passing out through tubes to the open air, and not being visible within the building except through the glass of the hives. The collection of hives of all kinds is complete and interesting, and we subjoin a figure of the stand (see page 100) to show how bees as well as hives may be exhibited conveniently. Amongst the various contrivances exhibited by Messrs. Neighbour, Nutt's Collateral Hive has an important place, and though very fancifully got up, and therefore very attractive to amateur bee-keepers, we must make the same objection to it as we have above to other forms of the same from different makers. The Single-box Hive, the Taylor's Shallow Eight-bar Hive, are the best bee-boxes in this collection, and every way admirable. Here are no fancy ventilators which the bees will close up, nor provoking side boxes which they will hesitate to enter, and from which it will be hard to dislodge them in order to get them to winter in the "pavilion." Whoever begins bee-keeping with either of these will have a fair chance of success. The most popular of the hives is that called the "Improved Cottage." Its popularity no doubt is due to the compromise between wood and straw which it accomplishes. People cannot get rid of the idea that a bee-hive _must_ be made of straw, though it is a material so ill adapted for union of swarms, supering and other operations of advanced bee culture. The "Cottager's Hive" is well adapted for "those apiarians who are desirous of setting their poorer neighbours in the way of keeping bees on the improved system." It consists of stock hive, small super-hive, and straw cover, and is on the principle of Payne's, which has been most successful among country people who have got so far as to prefer keeping, to killing their bees. The "Woodbury Bar and Frame Hive" is a novel construction, combining all the best features of the best bar boxes, and adding some new ones of great value and importance. We recommend every bee-keeper to become possessed of this admirable contrivance, with which Mr. Woodbury has accomplished wonderful things in the multiplication of the new race of Ligurian bees. In general form and proportions it resembles Taylor's and Tegetmeier's boxes, but in the arrangement of the bars it is unique. The stock box is furnished with ten moveable bars and frames, after the German plan. Each bar has a projection running along the under side; this ridge is chosen by the bees for the foundation of combs, rendering guide combs unnecessary. The supers have glass sides and eight bars, so that the operator need never be in doubt when to add another box above or take away the harvest.