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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
QUINBY’S BEE-KEEPING. 
THE MYSTERIES OE BEE-KEEPING EXPLAINED. 
OOTYTAJWIIVGI THE RESULT 
Of thirty-five years’ experience, and directions for using the 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 
todious.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 
day are often not to bo depended upon. A score 
of bee-keepers, each of limited experience, will 
give as many different methods, and an editor 
equally inexperienced, is usually unable to dis¬ 
criminate between them. The simplest directions 
of a reliable, practical bee-keeper, who studies 
the science with an honest enthusiasm, are 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 aud has aimed at no elegance of style or 
diction, preferring that the merit of the book 
should lie in its simplicity and reliability. 
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CONTENTS. 
I. —Introductory Remarks. 
II. —Physiology and Breeding. 
III. —Hives. 
TV.—Bee Pasturage. 
V. —The Apiary. 
VI. —Robbing. 
VII. —Feeding. 
VIII. — Destruction of the Moth 
Worm. 
IX. —Putting on and taking offBoxes. 
X. —Swarming. 
XI. —Artificial Swarms. 
XII. —Loss of Queens. 
XIII. —Pruning. 
XIV. —Diseased Brood. 
XV. —Anger of Bees. 
XVI. —Enemies of Bees. 
XVII. —Wax. 
XVIII.—Propolis. 
XIX. —Transferring. 
XX. —Sagacity of Bees. 
XXI. —Selecting Colonies for Winter. 
XXII. —Straining Honey and Wax. 
XXIII.—Wintering Bees. 
XXIV. —The Italian or Ligurian Bee. 
XXV. —Purchasing stocks and trans¬ 
porting Bees 
XXVI. —Conclusion. 
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MINIATURE FRUIT GARDEN, 
OR, THE CULTURE OF 
PYRAMIDAL AND BUSH FRUIT TREES. 
By THOMAS RIVERS. 
ILLPSTMATEB. 
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, and meth¬ 
ods of protection from 
frosts are given. Dwarf 
Cherries and Plums, are 
treated of as are other 
dwarf trees. Directions 
are also given for growing 
Figs and Filberts. 
fruit 
APPLE TREE TRAINED HORIZONTALLY. 
This little work is full of 
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VERTICAL CORDON PEAR TREE. 
CONTENTS. 
Apple.—American blight. 
Apricot—Pyramidal. 
Cherry—As bushes. 
Compact pyramids. 
Currant—Pyramidal. 
Double-grafting of 
trees. 
Dwarf walls, proper dis¬ 
tance for trees. 
Fig, as half-standards 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. 
suggestions to the cultivator, and like all the writings of its venerable author, bears the marks of long experience in the practice 
of fruit growing. 
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