THE COTTAGE AND FARM BEE KEEPER. 



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plague of damp ; while no gusts, nor hurricanes of wind need trouble 

 the apiarian, who, besides, has every opportunity for the most careful 

 and undisturbed observation. I have seen several such bee houses ; 

 among them is one belonging to the Lady of the Manor, in my own 

 neighborhood, from which, owing to her immediate superintendence, 

 and the able assistance of an intelligent gardener, she has harvested 

 very large stores* of the purest nectar. . A bee house of this kind, if 



a separate structure, should stand in a garden of its own, low, if possi- 

 ble, yet dry, and surrounded every way by a rampart of trees. 



A last kind of apiary, inferior to none other in any of the advanta- 

 ges which I have enumerated, is what may be called the house-window 

 apiary. It is in this way that I have chiefly managed my own bees 

 of late years. Living on the outskirts of a country town, with no 



* I have heard her boast of a harvest of three owt. of honey in one year, (this was in 

 1847,) from seven colonies ! 



