LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



THE COMB-BUILDERS 

 MOSES RUSDEN'S BEE-BOOK 



butler's "bees madrigall" - 



john thorley in his study - 



inverted straw hive - 



an old sussex bee-house 



comb-frame from modern hive 



winter in the bee-garden 



drone-brood and worker-brood 



queen-bee laying 



a queen-cell - 



the honey-bee, in fact and fancy 



brood-comb, showing all stages of 



the bee-nursery 



a swarm in may 



a mammoth swarm 



hiving the swarm 



the swarm hived 



honeycomb construction 



comb built upwards - 



in the storehouse 



queen-bee in off-season 



bad beemanship 



a forest apiary 



BEE-LIFE 



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