Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/142 - Longfellow's Bees

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 * Longfellow's Bees
 * If one-fifth of a hive of bees flew to the ladambra flower,
 * one-third flew to the slandbara,
 * three times the difference of these two numbers flew to an arbour,
 * and one bee continued to fly about, attracted on each side by the fragrant ketaki and the malati,
 * what was the number of bees?