The English bee-keeper
Subtitle: or, Suggestions for the practical management of amateur and cottage apiaries, on scientific principles
By: With an appendix of notes, chiefly illustrative. By a country curate
Publisher: F. & J. Rivington
Published: 1851
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Bees; Bee culture; Cottage industries
Other titles: English bee keeper; Suggestions for the practical management of amateur and cottage apiaries, on scientific principles
Table of contents: title: Preliminary notices, recommendatory of cottage and amateur bee-keeping; title: Of the establishment of an apiary : choice of a situation, and requisites for its welfare; title: Of stocking the apiary, with directions for the purchase of stocks and swarms; title: Of straw cottage-hives : their shape, size, and construction; title: Of the cottage system of bee-management in the open air; title: Of hives of straw, suitable to amateur bee-management; title: Of the amateur system of bee-management in the open air; title: Of boxes, etc., suitable for an in-door apiary; title: Of the bee-house and window apiary; title: Of the management of the bee-house or window apiary; title: Of feeding bees; title: Of certain instruments, either useful or necessary to bee-management.