The English bee-keeper, or, Suggestions for the practical management of amateur and cottage apiaries, on scientific principles
Subtitle: with an appendix of notes, chiefly illustrative
By: by a Country Curate, author of a series of papers on bees and bee-keeping, in "The cottage gardener"
Contributors: Country Curate
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Publisher: Dean & Son
Published: 1851
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Bee culture; Cottage industries
Other titles: Suggestions for the practical management of amateur and cottage apiaries, on scientific principles
Notes: Dated (page x): "March 29, 1851."

Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.
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.