TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Preface—Introductory[1]

SECTION I.

The inhabitants of the hive[2]
The queen[2]
The drone[6]
The worker bee[8]
Eggs of bees[8]
Increase of bees[9]
Swarming[11]

SECTION II.—Modern Bee-Hives.

Nutt's Collateral Hive[17]
Neighbour's Improved Single Box Hive[24]
Taylor's Amateur Shallow Box or Eight-bar Hive[26]
Taylor's Amateur Seven-bar Hive[27]
Neighbour's Improved Cottage[28]
Improved Cottage[31]
Ladies' Observatory or Crystal Bee-hive[32]
Cottagers' Hive for taking honey in straw caps without the destruction of the bees[34]
Woodbury Bar and Frame Hives:—
Wood[36]
Straw[37]
Glass[38]
Frame[39]
Improved Comb Bar[39]
Compound Bar and Frame[40]
Cover[41]
Taylor's Improved Cottage Hive[43]
" Eight Bar Straw[43]
Neighbour's Unicomb Observatory Hive[44]
Woodbury " " "[46]
Huber's Hive[50]

SECTION III.—Exterior Arrangements and Apparatus.

Bee House to contain two hives[53]
" " twelve hives[55]
" " nine hives[56]
Evening thoughts in January[56]
Exterior and interior of an Apiary[58]
Zinc Cover[59]
Ornamental Zinc Cover[59]
Cover of Zinc[60]
Bell Glasses[60]
Taylor's Glass[60]
Payne's Glass[61]
Bell Glass with lid[61]
Guide Comb for Glasses[61]
The New Bottle Feeder[63]
Round Bee Feeder[65]
Zinc Fountain Bee Feeder[65]
Nutt's Drawer Feeder[66]
Honey Cutters (13)[66]
Fumigator (11)[66]
Fumigator (12)[68]
Bee Dress or Protector[68]
Engraved Pressing Roller, for the guidance of bees in the construction of honey-comb on the bars[69]
Impressed Wax Sheets for artificial comb[70]

SECTION IV.

Manipulation and uses of Bar and Frame Hives[73]
Putting on Super Hive[75]
Taking out Frames with Combs[76]
Artificial Swarming[79]
Driving[84]
Changing Old Stock to new Hives[86]
Weighing Hives, &c.[88]

SECTION V.—Miscellaneous Information.

Stings: their Prevention and Cure[88]
Pollen or Food for Infant Bees[91]
Propolis or Bees' Cement[92]
Pasturage for Bees[93]
The Ligurian or Italian Alp Bee[95]
Living Bees at the International Exhibition of 1862,
sending Bees to Australia, &c.		[100]
Bee-keeping in London[102]
Wasps and Moths[106]
Draining Honey from the Combs[110]
General Remarks[110]
On the First Flight of Bees in Spring[116]

APPENDIX.—Testimonials of the Press.

Great Exhibition of 1801:—
From the "Cottage Gardener"[119]
" "Illustrated London News"[119]
" "Express"[121]
International Exhibition of 1802:—
From the "Illustrated London News"[121]
" "Journal of Horticulture"[121]
" "Illustrated News of the World"[122]
" "Gardener's Weekly Magazine"[123]
Bath and West of England Agricultural Show at Exeter
in June, 1863:—
From the "Journal of Horticulture"[124]
" "Western Times"[124]
" "Devon Weekly Times"[126]
" "Exeter Gazette"[126]
Royal Agricultural Show, Newcastle, 1804:—
From the "Northern Daily Express"[126]

ERRATA.

At second line from bottom of [page 23], for "cottage" read "cottager."

At [page 30], fifth line from bottom, for "last page" read "page 25."

At [page 44], sixteenth line, for "this plates of glass" read "thin plates of glass."

At [page 53], fourteenth line, read "bee hive" for "bee house."

[Transcriber Note: Above ERRATA corrections were applied.]

EXPLANATIONS OMITTED.

At [page 62], "Hold the glass horizontally over the flame of the candle."

At [page 80], "An empty hive should be placed on the stand when the living hive is removed, for the purpose of amusing returning bees. If the hive is kept in a bee-house, the entrance should be shut down unto the hive is restored, when the clustered bees may be at once admitted."

[Transcriber Note: Above EXPLANATIONS were placed.]