ADVERTISEMENT. 



The subscriber takes great pleasure in offering the present little 

 volume, as the first of the series, entitled " Saxton's Farm and 

 Cottage Library," to the patronage of the public, in the belief 

 that it 'will satisfy all the reasonable expectations of the American 

 bee keeper, who, it is hoped, will derive many a useful hint in this 

 interesting branch of knowledge, and will be amply remunerated for 

 his pains. 



The object of this series is to present, in a cheap and popular 

 form, short and concise treatises on Bees, Rabbits, Pigeons, Birds, 

 Flowers, Fruits, Sweet and Culinary Herbs, Recipes for Cooking, and 

 numerous other subjects appertaining to domestic and rural economy, 

 adapted to the taste and capacity of the amateur, the farmer and the 

 gardener. 



Neither labor nor expense will be spared in getting up these 

 treatises, in making them correct, and appropriately illustrating them 

 wherever the subject may demand. 



C. M. SAXTON, 

 Agricultural Book Publisher, New York. 

 152 Pulton Street. 



