| Preface—Introductory | 1 |
SECTION I.
| The inhabitants of the hive | 2 |
| The queen | 2 |
| The drone | 6 |
| The worker bee | 8 |
| Eggs of bees | 8 |
| Increase of bees | 9 |
| Swarming | 11 |
SECTION II.—Modern Bee-Hives.
| Nutt's Collateral Hive | 17 |
| Neighbour's Improved Single Box Hive | 24 |
| Taylor's Amateur Shallow Box or Eight-bar Hive | 26 |
| Taylor's Amateur Seven-bar Hive | 27 |
| Neighbour's Improved Cottage | 28 |
| Improved Cottage | 31 |
| Ladies' Observatory or Crystal Bee-hive | 32 |
| Cottagers' Hive for taking honey in straw caps without the destruction of the bees | 34 |
| Woodbury Bar and Frame Hives:— | |
| Wood | 36 |
| Straw | 37 |
| Glass | 38 |
| Frame | 39 |
| Improved Comb Bar | 39 |
| Compound Bar and Frame | 40 |
| Cover | 41 |
| Taylor's Improved Cottage Hive | 43 |
| " Eight Bar Straw | 43 |
| Neighbour's Unicomb Observatory Hive | 44 |
| Woodbury " " " | 46 |
| Huber's Hive | 50 |
SECTION III.—Exterior Arrangements and Apparatus.
| Bee House to contain two hives | 53 |
| " " twelve hives | 55 |
| " " nine hives | 56 |
| Evening thoughts in January | 56 |
| Exterior and interior of an Apiary | 58 |
| Zinc Cover | 59 |
| Ornamental Zinc Cover | 59 |
| Cover of Zinc | 60 |
| Bell Glasses | 60 |
| Taylor's Glass | 60 |
| Payne's Glass | 61 |
| Bell Glass with lid | 61 |
| Guide Comb for Glasses | 61 |
| The New Bottle Feeder | 63 |
| Round Bee Feeder | 65 |
| Zinc Fountain Bee Feeder | 65 |
| Nutt's Drawer Feeder | 66 |
| Honey Cutters (13) | 66 |
| Fumigator (11) | 66 |
| Fumigator (12) | 68 |
| Bee Dress or Protector | 68 |
| Engraved Pressing Roller, for the guidance of bees in the construction of honey-comb on the bars | 69 |
| Impressed Wax Sheets for artificial comb | 70 |
SECTION IV.
| Manipulation and uses of Bar and Frame Hives | 73 |
| Putting on Super Hive | 75 |
| Taking out Frames with Combs | 76 |
| Artificial Swarming | 79 |
| Driving | 84 |
| Changing Old Stock to new Hives | 86 |
| Weighing Hives, &c. | 88 |
SECTION V.—Miscellaneous Information.
| Stings: their Prevention and Cure | 88 |
| Pollen or Food for Infant Bees | 91 |
| Propolis or Bees' Cement | 92 |
| Pasturage for Bees | 93 |
| The Ligurian or Italian Alp Bee | 95 |
| Living Bees at the International Exhibition of
1862, sending Bees to Australia, &c. |
100 |
| Bee-keeping in London | 102 |
| Wasps and Moths | 106 |
| Draining Honey from the Combs | 110 |
| General Remarks | 110 |
| On the First Flight of Bees in Spring | 116 |
APPENDIX.—Testimonials of the Press.
| Great Exhibition of 1801:— | |
| From the "Cottage Gardener" | 119 |
| " "Illustrated London News" | 119 |
| " "Express" | 121 |
| International Exhibition of 1802:— | |
| From the "Illustrated London News" | 121 |
| " "Journal of Horticulture" | 121 |
| " "Illustrated News of the World" | 122 |
| " "Gardener's Weekly Magazine" | 123 |
| Bath and West of England Agricultural Show at Exeter in June, 1863:— |
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| From the "Journal of Horticulture" | 124 |
| " "Western Times" | 124 |
| " "Devon Weekly Times" | 126 |
| " "Exeter Gazette" | 126 |
| Royal Agricultural Show, Newcastle, 1804:— | |
| From the "Northern Daily Express" | 126 |
ERRATA.
At second line from bottom of page 23, for "cottage" read "cottager."
At page 30, fifth line from bottom, for "last page" read "page 25."
At page 44, sixteenth line, for "this plates of glass" read "thin plates of glass."
At page 53, fourteenth line, read "bee hive" for "bee house."
[Transcriber Note: Above ERRATA corrections were applied.]
EXPLANATIONS OMITTED.
At page 62, "Hold the glass horizontally over the flame of the candle."
At page 80, "An empty hive should be placed on the stand when the living hive is removed, for the purpose of amusing returning bees. If the hive is kept in a bee-house, the entrance should be shut down unto the hive is restored, when the clustered bees may be at once admitted."
[Transcriber Note: Above EXPLANATIONS were placed.]