The English bee-keeper, or, Suggestions for the practical management of amateur and cottage apiaries, on scientific principles : with an appendix of notes, chiefly illustrative

Title Variants

Alternative: English bee keeper

Alternative: Suggestions for the practical management of amateur and cottage apiaries, on scientific principles

By

Country Curate.

Rivington, Francis, 1745-1822 , bookseller
Rivington, John, 1720-1792 , bookseller
Dean & Son, , bookseller

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Dean & Son, 11, Ludgate Hill, [1851?]

Notes

Contents: Preliminary notices, recommendatory of cottage and amateur bee-keeping -- Of the establishment of an apiary : choice of a situation, and requisites for its welfare -- Of stocking the apiary, with directions for the purchase of stocks and swarms -- Of straw cottage-hives : their shape, size, and construction -- Of the cottage system of bee-management in the open air -- Of hives of straw, suitable to amateur bee-management -- Of the amateur system of bee-management in the open air -- Of boxes, etc., suitable for an in-door apiary -- Of the bee-house and window apiary -- Of the management of the bee-house or window apiary -- Of feeding bees -- Of certain instruments, either useful or necessary to bee-management.

Subjects

Bee culture , Cottage industries , England

Call Number

SF531.G7 C68 1851

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/t.173876
OCLC: 858565869