Transcriber Note Text emphasis denoted by _Italics_ and =Bold=. THE APIARY OR, BEES, BEE-HIVES AND BEE CULTURE. THE APIARY; OR, BEES, BEE-HIVES, AND BEE CULTURE: BEING A FAMILIAR ACCOUNT OF THE HABITS OF BEES, AND THE MOST IMPROVED METHODS OF MANAGEMENT, WITH FULL DIRECTIONS, ADAPTED FOR THE COTTAGER, FARMER, OR, SCIENTIFIC APIARIAN. By ALFRED NEIGHBOUR. "Je connais beaucoup des personnes qu' aiment les abeilles, mais ne personnes aiment les mediocrement, ils les passionment."--Gelieu. LONDON: KENT AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW GEO: NEIGHBOUR AND SONS, 149. REGENT STREET, AND 127, HIGH HOLBORN; AND ALL, BOOKSELLERS. 1865. TABLE OF CONTENTS. [Illustration] 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