BEES. 
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of the past and present ages. Regarded as an adjunct either to 
the garden of the cottager, or the more extended one of his richer 
neighbour, bees are to the first often his only possession, and their 
prosperity of the utmost consequence to his own; nor are they 
less regarded in the latter position, though their importance there 
amounts to no more than the preservation of a luxury. Still, in 
either case, the most economical and proper mode of management 
is equally desired, and information of a practical nature, tending to 
their advancement, and the consequent benefit of the proprietor’s 
interest and pleasure, must ever be valuable. A new edition, the 
third, of Taylor’s £ Bee-keeper’s Manual,’ has just been placed 
in our hands, and to say that it has accomplished much of this 
is merely to reiterate what others have previously remarked, and 
what the extended sale of the former editions fully proves. In 
the present are several important additions, both of illustrations 
and original matter, and we are pleased to perceive the author 
has avoided the too frequent practice in works of this kind, of 
filling his pages with useless particulars and old wives’ tales. His 
wish has evidently been to give, in the least compass, the result of 
actual experience, practical utility being the object kept steadily 
in view, with little or no reference to the numerous fancies and 
absurdities common to the subject. In this way a great deal of 
valuable matter is condensed in the space of a small volume, of 
moderate price. The following extracts will give the best idea of 
the style in which the book is written, and of its usefulness to the 
apiarian. The work commences with a description of the three 
kinds of bees composing a stock hive. 
a b c 
a A queen, or mother bee. 
b The common, or working bees. 
c And (during part of the year,) the male, or drone bees. 
£C In a community thus constituted, they dwell together in 
great harmony, working for the general good, recognizing one 
