hive; and, if the summer be not too far advanced, they will work more honey-comb in it. The taking away of the end boxes is a somewhat similar process; but they should on no account be taken at the same time as the glass, or indeed at the same time as any other hive may be--_robbed_ we were going to say, for it is robbery to the bees,--they intended the honey for their winter food, and are much enraged at being deprived of it. First shut down the dividing tin; the bees in the end box are now prisoners separated from the hive, keep them so half an hour, then take away the box bodily to another part of the garden, or into the dark out-house as before recommended. It may not be out of place here to say something respecting the enthusiastic inventor of the Collateral Hive--Thomas Nutt, who was an inhabitant of Spalding, in Lincolnshire. Having been disabled during a considerable period by rheumatic fever, he devoted all his attention to bees, at a time when bee-culture was but little valued; and, although it must be admitted that two boxes were used side by side long before Mr. Nutt's day, still it is due to him to state that the adoption of three boxes was entirely his own idea, and that as far as he then knew, the collateral system was his original invention. His statements have been severely criticised, and it does appear that the weight of honey which he names as having been produced in one season is perfectly incredible. But as in the district where he lived there is grown an immense quantity of mustard seed--the flowers of which afford excellent forage for bees--the honey harvests there, would doubtless, be very large. If Mr. Nutt has given his little favourites too much praise, it will be only charitable, now, to account for his statements by an excess of zeal and enthusiasm in this his study of bee-culture. It may be that the golden harvests he spoke and wrote of have been so far useful that they have induced many to commence bee-keeping, some of whom, whilst they condemned his statements, have themselves written really useful and practical works on the subject, which otherwise might possibly never have appeared. As the monks of old kept the lamp of religion burning, however dimly, until a more enlightened age, so Thomas Nutt may have assisted in a somewhat similar manner by energetically propounding his views, and thereby causing other apiarians to rise up whose names are now as familiar to us as household words, and whose works posterity will value. The writer of these pages has often accompanied Mr. Nutt on his visits to his patrons in the neighbourhood of London, and seen him perform his operations regardless of the anger of bees, and free from all fear of their stings. He often expatiated on the cruelty of the brimstone match and suffocation, denouncing the barbarous custom in the following terms:--"You may as well kill the cow for her milk, or the hen for her eggs, as the bee for