To THE 
POG Ges bong e 
HE Editor having for many years pur 
_  fued the inftructions of his father, (who 
is the Author of the following Hiftory) hath 
made fome improvements in the art and manage- 
ment of Bees; particularly a Glafs-hive, as re. 
prefented in the plate fronting the title-page, one 
of this conftruction was filled with fine virgin- 
honey, and being an ufeful curiofity, was pur-. 
chafed by the Society for the encouragement of 
Arts, Manufactures and Commerce,who alfo pur- 
chafed one of his colonies, that they might be in- 
fpected by the curious, and brought into general 
ufe: perfuaded that the invention would prove of 
the greateft advantage to this country, they offer- 
ed a premium of two hundred pounds, in order to 
introduce Mr. Tdorley’s, or fome other method of 
A 4 a fimilar 
