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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



SECTION IV. 



PAGE. 



Manipulation and uses of Bar and Frame 



Hives 73 



Putting on Super Hive - - 75 



Taking out Frames witli Combs - - 76 



PAGE- 

 Artificial Swarming - - - 79 

 Driving - .... 84 



Changing Old Stock to new Hives - 86 

 Weighing Hives, &c. - - 88 



SECTION V. — MlSCELLAMEOUS Infoesiation. 



stings : their Prevention and Cure 88 



Pollen or Food for Infant Bees - 91 



Propolis or Bees' Cement - 92 



Pasturage for Bees - - - 93 



The Ligurian or Italian Alp Bee - 95 

 Living Bees at the International Exhi- 



bition of 1863, sending Bees to 



Australia, &c. - - - - 100 



Bee-keeping in London - - 1 02 



Wasps and Moths - - 106 



Draining Honey from the Combs 1 10 



General Remarks - - 110 



On the First Flight of Bees in Spring - 116 



APPENDIX. — Testimonials op the Press. 



Great Exhibition of 1861 :— 



From the " Cottage Gardener " 119 



u " Illustrated London News " 119 

 . "Express" 121 



International Exhibition of 1862 1 — 



From the " Illustrated London News " 121 

 • " Journal of Horticulture " 121 

 II " Illustrated News of the 



World" - - - 123 

 n " Gardener's Weekly Maga- 

 zine" - - 123 



Bath and 'West of England Agricultural 

 Show at Exeter in June, 1863 : — 

 From the " Journal of Horticulture " 

 " Western Times " 

 » " Devon Weekly Times " - 

 /• " Exeter Gazette " - 



124 

 124 

 126 

 126 



Koyal Agricultural Show, Newcastle, 

 1804:— 

 From the " Northern Daily Express " ] 26 



EEEATA. 



At second line from bottom of page 23, for " cottage " read " cottager." 



At page 30, fifth line iiom bottom, for " last page " read " page 25." 



At page 44, sixteenth line, for " thi% plates of glass " read " thin plates of glass." 



At page 53, fourteenth line, read " bee hive" for "bee house." 



EXPLANATIONS OMITTED. 



At page 62, " Hold the glass horizontally over the flame of the candle." 



At page 80, " An empty hive should be placed on the stand when the living hive 

 is removed, for the purpose of amusing returning bees. If the hive is kept 

 in a bee-house, the entrance should be shut down until the hive is restored, 

 when the clustered bees may be at once admitted." 



