ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Frontispiece. — Coloured view of Geo. Neighbour and Sons' 



Apiary. 

 Plate I. — -Italian Alp Queen, Drone and Worker Bees, with 



Anatomical Drawings . . . Facing page 



Plate II. — Dissected Bee, with Illustrations of various Members 



Facing page 

 Common Cottager's Hive 

 Neighbours' Crystal Palace Skep 

 The Cottager's Hive 

 Improved Cottager's Hive 



Improved Cottage Hive (No. 5) . . . . 



Improved Cottage Hive (No. 6), no windows . 

 The Ladies' Observatory Hive . 

 Nutt's Collateral Hive ... 



Woodbury's Bar-frame Hive (wood) .... 

 Woodbury's Single Bar Frame as taken from hive 

 Woodbury's Bar-frame Hive (straw) 

 Woodbury's Bar -frame Hive (glass) 

 Neighbours' New Frame Hive (wood) . 

 Neighbours' New Frame Hive (straw), with Frame Super 

 Neighbours' Cottager's Frame Hive (wood) 

 Neighbours' Philadelphia Frame Hive . 

 Stewarton or Ayrshire Hive 



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