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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
235 
QUINBY'S BEE- KEEPING. 
THE 3IYSTERIES OE BEE-KEEPING EXPLAINED. 
COIVT^HNTITSTG THE KESULT 
Of thirty-five years' experience, and directions for using llie movable comb and box-hive, together with the most approved 
methods of propagating the Italian bee. 
By M. QUINBY, Practical Bee-Keeper. 
One who for thirty-five consecutive years has 
succeeded in keeping bees, and has been able, 
most of that time, to count his stock by hundreds, 
can hardly fail to furnish something from his 
experience that will be beneficial and interesting 
to others ; and he will doubtless be pardoned for 
attempting to teach those who may desire to avail 
themselves of his knowledge, and thus avoid the 
tedious process of acquiring it for themselves. 
A person who wishes to make the most possible 
from his bees can hardly afford to dispense with 
the benefit of any experience that will aid him. 
The instructions found in the periodicals of the 
flay are often not to be depended upon. A score 
oT bee-keepers, each of limited experience, will 
pive as many different methods, and an editor 
equally inexperienced, is usually unable to dis- 
criminate between tiiem. The simplest directions 
of a reliable, practical bee-keeper, who studies 
the science with an honest enthusiasm, arc in- 
valuable to the tyro in apiarian knowledge. 
To benefit the largest possible class, the author 
has endeavored to be practical rather than scien- 
tific and has aimed at no elegance of style or 
diction, preferring that the merit of the book 
should lie in its simplicity and reliability. 
r..'.u ror. nr.ixo efes. 
CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER I.— Introductory Remarks. 
CHAPTER n.— Physiology and Breeding. 
CHAPTER III.— Hives. 
CHAPTER rV.-Bee Pasturage. 
CHAPTER V.— The Apiary. 
CHAPTER YI.-Robbing. 
CHAPTER VII.— Feeding. 
CHAPTER VIII. — Destruction of the Moth 
Worm. 
CHAPTER IX.— Putting on and taking; offBoses. 
CHAPTER X.— Swarming. 
CHAPTER XI.— Artificial Swarms. 
CHAPTER XII— Loss of Queens. 
CHAPTER XXII.— Pruning. 
CHAPTER XIV.— Diseased Brood. 
CTIAPTER XV.— Anger of Bees. 
CHAPTER XVI.— Enemies of Bees. 
CHAPTER XVn.— Wax. 
CHAPTER X.VJUJL— Propolis. 
CHAPTER XIX.— Transferring. 
CHAPTER XX.— Sagacity of Bees. 
CHAPTER XXI.— Selecting Colonics for Winter. 
CHAPTER XXn.— Straining Honey aud Wax. 
CHAPTER XXIII.— Wintering Bees. 
CHAPTER XXIV— The Italian or Lignrian Bee. 
CHAPTER XXV.— Purchasing stocks and trans- 
porting Bees 
CHAPTER. XXVI.- Conclusion. 
Fully I 1 1 ix « t r a. t e €l . 
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"miniature fruit garden, 
OR, THE CULTURE OF 
PYRAMIDAL .AJNT> BUSH FTRTJIT TREES. 
Br THOMAS RIVERS. 
ILLUSTRATKD. 
Nothing is more gratify- 
ing than the cultivation 
of dwarf fruit trees, and 
this work tells, how to do 
it successfully. Dwarf Ap- 
ples and Pears are beau- 
tiful ornaments, besides 
being useful In giving 
abundant crops of fruit ; 
they can be grown in 
Small Gardens and City 
Yards, and be readily re- 
moved. This book also 
gives the manner of train- 
ing upon walls and trel- 
lises. Root Pruning is 
fully explained, aud meth- 
ods of protection from 
frosts are given. Dwarf 
Cherries and Plums, are 
treated of as aro other 
dwarf trees. Directions 
are also given for growing; 
Figs and Filberts. 
SECTION OF TRELLIS. 
TEAR TREE TRAINED TO TRELLIS. 
This little work is full of sin 
CONTENTS. 
Apple.— American blight. 
Apricot— Pyramidal. 
Cherry— As bushes. 
Compact pyramids. 
Currant— Pyramidal. 
Double-grafting of fruit 
trees. 
Dwarf walls, proper dis- 
tance for trees. 
Fig, as half- standard s and 
bushes. 
Filbert, as standards. 
Fruit trees. 
Glass fruit ridge. 
Ground vinery. 
Labels for fruit trees. 
Market garden bush pear 
trees, apple trees. 
Medlar— Pyramidal. 
Moss on trees. 
Old fruit trees. 
Peach border. 
Pear— As a hedge. 
Plum— As bushes. 
Pyramidal fruit trees. 
Standard orchard trees. 
Strawberries in ground 
vinery. 
APPLE TREE TRAINED HORIZONTAILY. a VERTICAL CORDON PEAR TREE 
gestions to the cultivator, and like all the writings of its venerable author, bear* the marks of long experience in the practice 
of fruit growing. 
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