A sure way to order bees and fruit-trees, or, a compleat bee-master. : Shewing, I. The way to manage and encrease them. A platform for a bee-hive. What food ought to be propagated about the bee-houses. To raise large stocks of bees. Their errors that kill the drone-bees. Directions to feed them, and raise dead bees. II. To keep sheep and horses free from all diseases. III. Divers receipts in physick, and how every man may be his own doctor at small charge. IV. Directions for managing fruit-trees, &c. so that they shall never fail bearing fruit..
Worlidge, John,active 1669-1698.
London : Printed for G. Conyers, at the Ring in Little-Britain.,
[1715?]..
In four parts, each with a drop-head title. 'The planter's guide, in ordering fruit-trees.'; 'Directions how to keep horses and sheep free from all manner of diseases.' (Signed, p.10 W.M.); 'A new and compleat bee-master, &c.'(abridged from J. Worlidge's Apiarium); 'Secrets of art and nature.'.
Each part was also issued separately. - 'Directions to keep horses' mentions a 'distemper which happen'd in 1715'
ESTC
Bee culture
Fruit trees
Livestock