With the view of making "The Humane Management of Honey-Bees" more interesting, the dialogue, which formed the introductory chapter in the first edition, has been withdrawn, and in its place have been substituted some valuable remarks of Dr. Birkbeck, Dr. Hancock, and Mr. Booth, respecting Bees, honey, wax, &c. of course _the first chapter is new_; as is chapter X. giving an account of the apiary of the Most Noble the Marquess of Blandford, at Delabere Park, which can hardly fail of being interesting to every reader: it is principally from the able pen of Mr. Booth. Chapter XVIII. on Apiarian Societies, is new also. And, besides these three entire chapters, not short paragraphs merely, but whole pages of new matter have been introduced interspersedly by my most respected friend--the Rev. T. Clark, of Gedney-Hill, who has revised, corrected, and re-arranged the whole; and who has not only bestowed much time and pains upon the improvement of my work, but in the kindest and most disinterested manner has, in superintending this and the former edition through the press, actually travelled upwards of _eight hundred_ miles. The friendly performer of services so generous, so laborious, and so perseveringly attended to, without any stipulation for fee or reward, merits from me, and has from me, every expression of my gratitude, and, were it in my power, should have _one expression more_. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Chapter Page I. _Introductory Matters_ 1 II. _Bee-Boxes and Management of Bees in them_ 14 III. _Ventilation_ 49 IV. _Thermometer_ 58 V. _On Driving Bees_ 90 VI. _Inverted-Hive_ 96 VII. _Observatory-Hive_ 107 ---- _Mode of Stocking an Observatory-Hive_ 119 VIII. _Fumigation_ 121 IX. _Objections against Piling Boxes_ 135 X. _Apiary at Delabere Park_ 149 XI. _Honey-Bees_ 156 ---- _For the Sting of a Bee_ 171 XII. _Impregnation of the Queen-Bee_ 175 XIII. _Supernumerary Queens_ 181 XIV. _Bee-Feeding_ 190 ---- _Bee-Food_ 200 XV. _Catalogue of Bee-Flowers, &c._ 206 XVI. _Honey-Comb_ 211 ---- _Bees' Wax_ 232 XVII. _Winter Situation for Bees_ 237 XVIII. _Apiarian Societies_ 246 XIX. _Miscellaneous Directions_ 253 INDEX TO THE ENGRAVINGS. Frontispiece, to face title. Page