Bee-Wax, a solid concrete, obtained from the honey-combs, sweet and liquid parts are extracted by heating and pressing them between iron plates. The should be hard, compact of a clear yellow colour, and an to that of new is tough, yet easily broken: by long . it becomes harde and more brittle loses its fine co also its fragrance. toees -v is applied, are various : great quantitiesof it are annually bleach* ed, and converted into candles. On account of Its softening and healing nature, it is much used in curates, plasters and ointments.

Artijicial wax may be extracted from many vegetable substances, especially from the flowers of the lime-tree, by a chemical process; but we doubt whether the ex-"pence attending this experiment would, in this country, be equivalent to the advantages. It is, how ever, certain, that wax is contained in a much greater number of vegetables than has hitherto been supposed; and it may easily be extracted from the leaves of most plants and trees, as is manifest from their shining cover, or varnish, which generally consists of waxy matter. This concrete also forms an ingredient of several resins; and may be separated from gummy, mucilaginous, and saccharine matters, by simple water; from saponaceous substances, by water or spirit of wine; and from resinous bodies, by means of vitriolic aether, Bee-bread is a species of crude wax, collected by the working-bee from the farina of flower-cups, conveyed to the hive in the hollows of its hind-legs, and deposited in the cells with the egg, to serve as food for the young maggot.—This sub-stance often varies in colour, according to the different flowers from which it is separated; and though generally white at first, it is afterwards changed, by the impurities arising from the steam, etc. of the bees. In some hives, this crude wax is said to amount to one hundred weight in a season, if the total consumption of these voracious young maggots be. calculated in proportion to the incessant labour of their supporters; though the real wax in the whole hive may perhaps not exceed two pounds weight.