606 Payne's Apiaria?i^s Guide. 



On the whole, we are reluctantly compelled to state, that 

 we consider Mr. Forbes's work as a very unfortunate attempt 

 at book -making. Had he confined himself to a simple list of 

 the scientific names of the plants, this might have been got 

 into a dozen pages ; fifty pages would have included the 

 whole of the descriptive matter, and also all the engravings ; 

 and the treatises, or didactic part of the work, would, on all 

 accounts, have been better dispensed with. We should then 

 have had a useful guide to Woburn Abbey, which might 

 have been sold for 5s., instead of the present large and 

 high-priced book. 



Having great respect for Mr. Forbes both as a man and a 

 practical gardener, we can assure our readers that it has 

 given us great pain to make these remarks upon his work. 

 We are determined, however, that no considerations of pri- 

 vate friendship shall prevent us from doing what we conceive 

 to be our duty to the public. 



Art. III. Catalogue of WorJcs on Gardening, Agriculture, Botany, 

 Rural Architecture, 8^c., lately published, txith some Account 

 of those considered the most interesting. 



Payne, J. H., Author of the " Cottager's Guide for the Ma- 

 nagement of his Bees : " The Apiarian's Guide, containing 

 , practical Directions for the Management of Bees upon the 

 Depriving System. 8vo, 80 pages, 2 copperplates. Lon- 

 don, Simpkin and Marshall, 1833. 



The following is a copy of the first paragraph of the 

 author's preface : — " Having written the Cottager's Guide 

 for the Management of his Bees upon the depriving system, 

 which has been printed under the direction of the Suffolk and 

 Norfolk Apiarian Society, for gratuitous distribution among 

 the cottagers, I am induced, at the particular request of seve- 

 ral apiarian friends, to enlarge the above little work ; and to 

 give, in addition, a description of Nutt's newly invented hive, 

 and other practical remarks in bee knowledge, resulting from 

 nearly forty years' close observation." The results are digested 

 into 17 chapters, whose titles are: — " 1. Situation of an 

 apiary, and directions for placing the hives ; 2. Directions 

 for purchasing bees ; S. Materials of which hives should be 

 made, and the improved cottage hive described ; 4. Method 

 of placing the small hive, box, or glass upon the improved 

 cottage hive, by which means fine honey may be obtained 

 without destroying the bees ; 5. Proper time for taking away 



