INDEX.
[ [A] ][ [B] ][ [C] ][ [D] ][ [E] ][ [F] ][ [G] ][ [H] ]
[ [I] ][ [K] ][ [L] ][ [M] ][ [N] ][ [O] ][ [P] ][ [Q] ]
[ [R] ][ [S] ][ [T] ][ [U] ][ [V] ][ [W] ][ [Z] ]
Abbott, C. N., Frame-hives, [146]
Abdomen of bees, [102]
Accident at Stafford House, [164]
Acclimatising Bees (Appendix), [349]
Advice by Butler, [333]
American Bee Journal, [190]
Anatomy of bees, Plates I. and II., facing pages [34] and [86]
Anecdote from Butler, [336]
" of French clergyman, [334]
" showing provision made for swarming, [78]
Antennæ of bees, [94]
Apiary, Geo. Neighbour & Sons, ([frontispiece])
" description of, [330]
Applying supers, [264]
Artificial swarming, [233]
Asiatic bees, [49]
Austrian ditto (Lower), [46]
Bar-frame holder, [192]
Bar Supers, [183]
Bath and West of England Agricultural Association, [42]
Bee as an insect, [7]
" dress, [208]
" feeders, Nutt's, [126]
" bottle, [203]
" can, [204],
" round, [205]; wood, [206]
" houses, [166]-179
" traps, [201]
" veil, [210]
Beehives, various, [108] to 165
Bee-keeping in London, [322]
" Zoological Gardens, [328]
" Horticultural Gardens, [329]
" St. John's Wood, [329]
" Hampstead, [330]
Bees, do they go to sleep? 31
" increase of, [82]
" head of, [88]
" eye of, [90]
" mouth, [91]
" tongue, [92]
" mandibles, [93]
" sense of hearing, [95]
" " smell, [96]
" antennæ. 96
" thorax and organs of motion, [97]
" breathing, [100]
" stomach, [102]
" honey bag, [102]
" produce of wax, [103]
" sting, [104]
" dislike to hive, [221]
" enemies of, [315]
" profitably kept, [336]
Bell glasses, see glasses
Berlepsch, Baron von, [4], [6], [10], [36], [42], [49], [75], [211]
" theory of drone-breeding, [69]
" on swarming, [77]
" breeding superfluous princesses, [81]
Bevan, Dr., [3], [18], [66]
Black Bees, [71]
Book-keeping recommended, [332]
Box Fumigator, [206]
British Bee-keepers' Association, [6], [48]
Caledonian Apiarian Society (Appendix), [354]
Carbolic acid, use of, [208], [220], [305]
Carniolan bees, [45], [46], [53], [78]
Change of frame-hives beneficial in spring, [223]
Cheshire's (F.) frame-hive, [145]
" nucleus hive 197
" transferring board, [192]
" wax guide-maker, [191]
Comb-building in supers, [338]
" fixing in ditto, [262]
" foundations (American), [190]
Combs, placing in frame-hives, [223]
Common cottager's hive, [108]
Corri, Herr, [47], [78]
Cottage hive, improved, [114]
Cottager's hive, no
" improved ditto, [112]
" improved frame-hive, [142]
Cotton, Rev. W. C., [5], [45], [78]
Covers, zinc, for hives, [171], [172]
" wood, [172], [174], [175], [177], [179]
Cowan's (Mr.) plan of working frame-hives, [255]
Crystal Palace skep, [109]
Cyprian bees, [47]
Darwin, Dr. 56, [57]
Dathe, [53]
" plan of fertilizing queens with Italian drones, [253]
Diseases of bees, [306]
Dönhoff, Dr. 5, [65], [96]
Driving, [226]
" best condition for, [228]
" useful for taking honey, [229]
Drone bee, [19], [62]
" " has no father, [64]
" eggs, theory of production, [62], [252]
" trap, [201]
" comb, to be used sparingly, [224]
Drone comb, building of, sometimes to be avoided, [238]
Dummy frame, [140], [143]
Dzierzon, Dr., [4], [10], [36], [42], [44]
" description of the round of the bees' concerns, [32]
" on swarming, [77]
" not a smoker, [210]
Egg-laying, [10], [67]
Eggs and transformations, [59]
Ekes, description of, [186]
Epitaph on brimstoned bees, [85]
Evans' (Dr.) poem on bees, [3],
quotations from, [59], [75], [76], [107], [165]
Extracting honey from comb, [274]
Extractor, honey, [193]
Eyes of bees, [89]
Faculties, and functions, [54]
Feeder, Nutt's, [126]
Feeders, (various), [202]
Feeding, [279]
Fertile workers, [62], [67]
Fittings and apparatus (outside), [166]
Flat-topped glasses, [182]
Foul brood, [307]
" Langstroth, Woodbury, and Dzierzon on, [308], [312]
Fox, Mr. George, [278]
" Mr. S. Bevan, [278], [332]
Frame-hive, putting swarm into, [219]
" facility for placing combs, [223],
" with cover and stand, [175], [177], [179]
Frames, removing, [268]
French exhibition, [165]
Fumigators, [206]
Fumigating, description of, [231]
General hints on frame-hives, [254]
" remarks, [332]
Gerstäcker, [54]
Glass hives, ladies' observatory, [120]
" frame, [138]
" with cover and super, [177], [178]
Glasses for supers, [180], [181], [182]
Guide comb, [188], [261]-264
" maker (Cheshire's), description of, [191]
Hawkins, Mr. Waterhouse, [50]
Head of bee, [88]
Hearing of bees, [95]
Heath bees, [46]
Hints, general, on frame-hives, [254]
Hives, modern, [108] to 165
" sometimes destroyed by entrance being stopped, [343]
Hiving swarms, [212]
Honey bag of bees, [102]
" cutters, [193]
" description of, [296]
" extractor, [193]
" test when adulterated, [297]
Houses for hives, [166]
Hruschka, Von, [193]
Huber, [62]
Hunter's, Mr., support for hive when driving, [229]
Impressed wax sheets, [187]
Improved cottage hive, [113]
" cottager's hive, [112]
" ditto, no windows, [119]
Increase of bees, [82]
Insects necessary for existence of flowers, [59]
Italian bee, [34], [35], [41]
Italianising hives, [251]
Kerner, [58]
Kleine, Herr, [5], [35], [244]
Klipstein, Von, anecdotes of queens, [22], [66]
Knowledge of bee-keeping necessary for a gardener, [343]
Ladies' Observatory Hive, [120]
Lanarkshire bee-keeper, [297]
Lanarkshire hive, [155]
Langstroth, Rev. L. L., [3], [5], [10], [43]. 83. 85, [129], [346]
Langstroth, Rev. L. L., on transferring swarms, [220]
Lee's supers, [145], [146]
Legs of bees, [98]
Leuckart, Professor, [64], [66]
Ligurian bee, [7], [34]
London apiaries, [325]
Lower Austrian bees, [46]
Lubbock, Sir John, [6], [57], [59]
Mahan, Mr., [9]
Mandibles of bees, [91]
Manipulation with bees, [212]
" " frame-hives, [269]
Mel-extractor, [196]
Melting down combs, [275]
Mouth of bees, [91]
Munn, Major, [129]
Nadirs, description of, [186]
Neighbours' improved cottager's hive, [113]
Neighbours' improved cottage-hive, [114]
Neighbours' new frame-hive, [139]
New cover and stand for frame-hives, [175], [176], [179]
New wood feeder, [206]
Nucleus hive, [197]
Nutt's hive, [123]
Orchard, good place for an apiary, [56]
Organs of sensation, [88]
" motion, [97]
" reproduction, [62]
Parthenogenesis, [64]
Pasturage for bees, [293]
Payne's (I. H.) glass, [182]
Perforated zinc adapter, [141], [143], [144], [200]
Philadelphia Exhibition, [160];
and Appendix, [350]
Philadelphia hive, [143]
Pollen basket, [98]
" preservation from incursions of ants, [58]
" description of, [298]
" substitute for, [299]
Position of hives, [292]
Propolis, [300]
Queen, [8]
Queen, power of egg-laying, [10]
" homage paid to fertile, [12]
" no attention bestowed on virgins, [13]
" two queens in a hive, [15]
" sting of used for depositing eggs, [15]
" some queens will not fight, [15]
" consternation at loss of, [16]
" life of, [19]
" fertilisation of, [11], [20], [22], [24]
" in relation to sexes, [63]
" at swarming time, [73]
" and drone preventers, [200]
" rearing, [17], [27], [77], [243]
" cells, [17], [244]
" securing, [228], [240]
" introducing stranger, [247]
" cages, [198], [244]
Quilts, [180]
Rationale of swarming, [72]
Relation of sex to cells, [67]
" plants to insects, [56], [57]
Removing bees, [259]
" supers, [266]
" frames, [268]
Reproductive economy, [62]
Renfrewshire bee-keeper, [24], [41], [154]
" queen cage, [199]
" instructions on supering, [337]
Robbing, [225], [305]
Rorl's (Mr.) way to get quit of fertile workers, [67]
Round feeder, [205]
Royal cells, [17], [244]
" " transferring, [198]
" duels, [15], and Appendix
Salt obtained by bees, [30], [97]
Samuelson's work,. The Honey Bee, [5], [91], [96]
Siebold, Von, on Parthenogenesis, [64]
Skep, Crystal Palace, [109]
" (old), transferring combs from, [223]
Slow feeding, [204]
Smelling, sense of, largely possessed by bees, [96]
Smith, Mr. J., [48]
Smyrnæan bees, [47]
Society of Arts, [57]
Stands for hives, [118], [170]
Stewarton hive, [146] to 155, [337]
Sting, [104]
" prevention and cure, [286]
Stocks (old) transferring, [222]
Stomach of bees, [102]
Straw frame-hive, [136], [141]
" hives, round, [108] to 120
Stupefying bees, [207]
Supers, [180], [181], [182], [183], [184], [185]
Superstitions about bees, [341]
Supplying natural comb, [261]
Swammerdam, [63]
Swarm, number of bees composing, [79]
" second flight disastrous, [214]
" often mix, [214]
" taking, [214]
" sending to a distance, [217]
" conveyance of, [217]
" transferring, [218]
" returning, [218]
" brought from a distance, [219]
" should be fed, [221]
" truant, [78], [317]
" artificial, [233]
Swarming, rationale of, [72]
" provision made for, [74], [78]
" signs of, [80]
" a provision of Nature, [212]
Taylor, the late Mr. H., [37]
Taylor's glasses, [181]
Thorax of bee, [97]
Tongue of bee, [92]
Transferring board, [192]
" swarms, [218]
" old stocks, [222]
Tristram, Rev. H. B., extract from his book, [51]
Tube fumigator, [207]
Unicomb observatory hive, outdoor, [157]
Unicomb observatory hive, directions for, [160]
Unicomb observatory hive, indoor, [162]
Uniting weak colonies, [229]
Ventilation performed by bees, [30], [285]
Ventilators, [124]
Vulcanite for feeding-stage, [203]
Wasps, [315]
Warder, Dr., experiment with swarm, [77]
Water for bees, [30], [331]
Wax, how produced, [103]
" impressed sheets of, [187]
" secretion of, [302]
Weighing hives, [276]
Wildman's bees, [322]
Wings for bees, [97]
Winter precautions, [283]
Wood cover, [172]
" feeder, [206]
Woodbury, T. W., [37], [42], [49], [50]
" frame-hive, [134]
" mode of hiving swarm, [216]
" mode of transferring swarm, [220]
" hive cover, [174]
Xenophon's army poisoned with honey, [298]
Zinc covers, ornamental, [171]
" " plain, [172]
" rests, [140]
" adapters, perforated, [141], [143], [144], [200]
Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Printers, London and Aylesbury.
PRICE LIST
OF
NEIGHBOUR & SONS'
IMPROVED BEE-HIVES
For taking Honey without the Destruction of the Bees.
EXHIBITORS AT THE
Great Exhibition, 1851. Dublin Exhibition, 1853.
Exposition Universelle, 1855.
International Exhibition, 1862. Dublin Exhibition, 1866.
Paris Exposition Universelle, 1867.
Annual International Exhibition, 1873.
British Bee-Keepers' Shows, Crystal Palace, 1874, 1875.
Alexandra Palace, 1876.
International Philadelphia Exhibition, 1876.
Caledonian Apiarian Show at Edinburgh, 1877.
List of Prices.
| No. | £ | s. | d. | ||
| 1. | Nutt's Collateral Bee-Hive | 5 | 5 | 0 | |
| Stand for ditto | 0 | 16 | 0 | ||
| 2. | Single Box Hive | 3 | 3 | 0 | |
| 3. | Neighbours' New Frame Stock Hive | 1 | 5 | 0 | |
| Super | 1 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Cover for ditto | 27s. and | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4. | Carr's Bar and Frame Hive | 0 | 19 | 6 | |
| Super for ditto | 0 | 19 | 6 | ||
| 5. | Neighbours' Improved Cottage Hive | 1 | 15 | 0 | |
| Stand for ditto | 0 | 10 | 0 | ||
| 6. | Ditto, without Windows | 1 | 5 | 0 | |
| 7. | Ladies' Observatory Hive | 2 | 5 | 0 | |
| 8. | The Cottager's Hive | 0 | 10 | 6 | |
| 9 | and 10. Bee Feeders | each 5s. and | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 11. | and 12, Fumigators | " 2s. " | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 13. | Honey Cutters | per pair | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 14. | Improved Cottager's Hive | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| 15. | Honey Extractor for hand use | 15s. and | 0 | 17 | 6 |
| 16. | Woodbury Bar Super | 0 | 10 | 6 | |
| 17. | Neighbours' New Supers, Wood and Glass | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Ditto ditto Straw and Wood | 1 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 18. | Taylor's Glass, to contain about 8 lb. | 0 | 3 | 6 | |
| 19. | Payne's Glass, with hole in centre, to afford additional space to supers partly filled | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 20. | Neighbours' Revolving Indoor Unicomb Hive | 3 | 10 | 0 | |
| 21. | New Can Feeder, on the principle of a fountain, adapted for slow, stimulating feeding (3 pints) | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| 22. | New Frame Stand, to be used when manipulating with movable combs | 0 | 5 | 6 | |
| 23. | American Sectional Supers | per set of 14 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 24. | Taylor's Super Glass | ||||
| 25. | Bell Glass, to contain about 9 lb | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 26. | Ditto ditto 5 lb | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| 27. | Ditto ditto 3 lb | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 28. | New Shape Flat-top Glass, with lid to place on table inverted | 0 | 3 | 6 | |
| 30. | Shallow Glasses, 9½ in. wide by 4 in.-deep | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| Ditto " 13½ in. " 4½ in. " | 0 | 5 | 6 | ||
| 31. | Bee Dress, with Sleeves (post free, 3d. extra) | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
| 32. | India-rubber Gloves (by post, 2d. extra) | per pair | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 33. | Common Straw Hives | 0 | 2 | 6 | |
| 34. | Small Straw Super Hives | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 36. | Floor Boards, according to description, 2s., 2s. 6d. | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 37. | Zinc Cover for Improved Cottage Hive | 0 | 15 | 6 | |
| 38. | Ornamental Zinc Cover | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| 39. | Bee House, to contain two Improved Cottage' Hives | 4 | 4 | 0 | |
| 42. | Woodbury Bar and Frame Hive | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ditto ditto with Window | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Cover | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Stand | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 44. | The Bottle Feeder | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 45. | Woodbury Straw Bar and Frame Hive, 18s. 6d. and | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 46. | Outdoor Unicomb Hive, to take Woodbury Frames | 5 | 5 | 5 | |
| Stand | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 47. | Common Cottage Hive, 5s. 6d. each. | Six for | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 49. | Glass Frame Hive | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 51. | Improved Wax Sheets | per doz. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 52. | Lee's Octagon Straw Hive | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Super | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Cover and Stand | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 53. | Lee's Octagon Hive, in Mahoghany | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 54. | Ditto ditto Pine | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 55. | Ditto ditto Glass Sides | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 56. | Ditto ditto smaller, in Mahoghany | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 57. | Ditto ditto Wooden Sides, Glass Top | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 58. | Stewarton Hive (3 Stock Boxes, 1 Honey Box) | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 59. | New Wood Bee Feeder | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 60. | Neighbours' Cottage Frame Hive | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 61. | Neighbours' Divisional Super, 3s. 6d. | per pair | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 62. | Cover for Neighbours' Frame Hive | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 63. | Cottage Frame Hive, Woodbury Frames | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 64. | Cheshire's Frame Hive, complete—Stand, Super, and Cover, the latter painted | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 65. | Abbott's ditto ditto | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 66. | Lanarkshire Stock Hive | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Super | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Roof | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 67. | Neighbours' New Bee Veil (by post, 2d. extra) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 68. | Flat-top Glass with 3 inch hole in centre (similar to Payne's), for adding space to Supers | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 69. | Same construction as above, 6½ in. wide, 3 in. deep | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 70. | Lee's Double Super | per pair | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 71. | Cheshire's Nucleus Hive, for Queen Rearing | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 72. | Cheshire's Transferring Board | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 73. | Cheshire's Prize Smoker | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 74. | Cheshire's Drone Trap | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 75. | Syrup Can and Shovel | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 76. | Vulcanite Feeding Plates | each 6d. and | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| (Less by the dozen) | |||||
| 77. | Bligh Bee Quieter | each | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 78. | Queen and Drone Preventers | 1s. and | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 79. | Crystal Palace Skep | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Floor Board | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Super | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 80. | Neighbours' Straw Frame Hive, with New-shaped Cover and Stand, grained and varnished | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
| 81. | New Cottage Frame Stock Hive, with Window | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 82. | New Cover and Stand for the above (painted) | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 83. | Neighbours' Cylindrical Honey Extractor | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| Two Wire Cases | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 84. | Bee House for One Hive | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| 85. | Renfrewshire Stewarton Movable Comb Hive, consisting of 3 Stock Boxes and 1 Honey Box | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 86. | Bee Traps, for clearing Bees from Supers | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 87. | Philadelphia Hive, with Super, Stand, and Cover | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| 88. | Sectional Supers | the set | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 89. | New Cover for Cottage Frame Hive (carries its own Stand) | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 90. | Quinby Smoker | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
PUBLICATIONS ON BEES.
| "The Apiary;" or, Bees, Beehives, and Bee Culture, by Alfred Neighbour. | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| Hive and Honey Bee, by Rev. L. L. Langstroth (American). A New Edition | 0 | 9 | 6 | |
| Quinby's Bee-Keeping (American) | 0 | 8 | 6 | |
| Italian Alp Bee, by Hermann | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| PRIZE MEDALS AWARDED AT THE PHILADELPHIA AND OTHER EXHIBITIONS. |
GEO. NEIGHBOUR & SONS'
PRICE CURRENT OF
Genuine Italian Alp or Ligurian Bees.
An Italian Queen in a small Box, accompanied by a few Worker Bees, with full directions for uniting to English Stocks, each from April and May, 12s.; June, 11s.; July, 10s.; August, 9s.; September, 8s.; October, 7s.
Orders should be given in advance.
For parcels of Six Queens at one time, 1s. each less.
A Stock, with genuine Italian Queen, packed so as to travel by rail with comparatively no risk of damage, including the Straw Frame Hive with window, £4; or if in New Cheap Frame Hive, No. 60 or 63, which has no window, £3 5s.
Swarms and Stocks of English Bees can be obtained.
Transcriber Note
Minor typos corrected. Hyphenation was standardized to the most frequently used version with the exception of beehive which was used by the author and bee-hive in quotations from other works.