 Crane says this was written "about 1655" but Evelyn's illustration of an octagonal hive appears to be much later.Hattie Ellis describes John Evelyn's hive as "stripped down", as it was in one of Christopher Wren's first architectural drawings, (it was) a stack of wooden boxes with small holes between them so the bees could leave their honey in one box and crawl down to the next".Ellis uses Evelyn's illustration of this hive but overlooks that, whereas Wren's drawing does show "small holes", there is no corresponding hole in Evelyn's drawing