Let us take a ramble to the bees' home and see who and what are there, what they are about, and how long it takes to perfect some of their productions. Turn over some other pages and you will see several patterns or styles of bee-hives. Conue out into my garden with me and have a look at some of them in the wood instead of illustrations on paper. There is an old-fashion Lungstroth, and here is a very modern Langstroth with all the latest improvements. That one? Oh, that is a Heddon. I don't want you to look at the hives ; I want to give you an insight of the interior and what is going on there. Are these bees going in and out ofthat hole? Yes. I want to draw your attention to these. You see that one with lumps of yellow clayey-looking material on her hinder legs. Well, that is pollen; they get it from the anthers of flowers. Many people think it is the wax, but it is not. It is the stuff they make bec-brcad with. What is bee-bread? When we open the hive I will show you some and tell you all about it. There are some bees going into the hive without, apparently, any load, but nevertheless, they are well laden, but the cargo they are taking in is honey. Look, I will catch one of the bees that is outward bound, and show you; I must kill her or she might sting. Her body (I am not going to use any scientific terms) is formed with six honey rings; these are slightly overlapping each other. If I caught that bee away from her home I should know she was going out to work, because the rings are close together and rather overlapping. Now look at this one; she has just returned from her field labour. Her body is longer, and there is a little whitish mark between each ring; that tells me that her honey sac (she carries that internally) is full of honey. From those markings, if I caught her in the street, I should know she was going to her home. What is that--that one covered all over in yellow dust! That is pollen too. It differs from that carried on the legs. The pollen they carry on their bodies in that way is dry and floury, and they cannot kneed it into little pellets, and stow it away in the pollen baskets on their hinder legs. Pollen from some plants is like damp flour, and from others like dry sand; the former they can kneed into balls, the latter they carry home between the hairs of their bodies. That little furry bee just gone out is a young one; that one there is more shiny--she has not so many hairs over her body; that is the effect of old age and other causes. That big bee just outside that box - is that the queen? No, that is a drone, or male bee. I can catch him alive; he has no sting. You notice he has seven horny rings to form his body. He has larger eyes and longer horns than the workers. Those bees in that hive there are not like those? No, that is the English black bee. These here with four bright golden bands on their bodies are the golden Italian bee. Look, these bees working in this hive have all sorts of markings; some have two yellow rings, others have three. There is one all black, and there is one with four golden bands. These are cross-bred. Yes, all these varieties readily interbreed, one with the other. I thought cross-bred animals would not reproduce! Yes, they will; it is hybrids that do not often reproduce. Is there anything more you would like to know about these bees that are flying in and out of the hive? No ; only **I** notice that some of the bees have much shorter wings than the others. They are old bees, and their wings are much worn with constant use. You must remember the number of trips they make daily, and the many miles they have to travel.