Great Exhibition of 1801:-- From the "Cottage Gardener" 119 " "Illustrated London News" 119 " "Express" 121 International Exhibition of 1802:-- From the "Illustrated London News" 121 " "Journal of Horticulture" 121 " "Illustrated News of the World" 122 " "Gardener's Weekly Magazine" 123 Bath and West of England Agricultural Show at Exeter in June, 1863:-- From the "Journal of Horticulture" 124 " "Western Times" 124 " "Devon Weekly Times" 126 " "Exeter Gazette" 126 Royal Agricultural Show, Newcastle, 1804:-- From the "Northern Daily Express" 126 [Illustration] ERRATA. At second line from bottom of page 23, for "cottage" read "cottager." At page 30, fifth line from bottom, for "last page" read "page 25." At page 44, sixteenth line, for "_this_ plates of glass" read "_thin_ plates of glass." At page 53, fourteenth line, read "bee hive" for "bee house." [Transcriber Note: Above ERRATA corrections were applied.] EXPLANATIONS OMITTED. At page 62, "Hold the glass horizontally over the flame of the candle." At page 80, "An empty hive should be placed on the stand when the living hive is removed, for the purpose of amusing returning bees. If the hive is kept in a bee-house, the entrance should be shut down unto the hive is restored, when the clustered bees may be at once admitted." [Transcriber Note: Above EXPLANATIONS were placed.] PREFACE. [Illustration] Our apology for preparing a bee book is a very simple one. We are so frequently applied to for advice on matters connected with bees and bee-hives, that it seemed likely to prove a great advantage, alike to our correspondents and ourselves, if we could point to a "handy-book" of our own, which should contain full and detailed replies sufficient to meet all ordinary enquiries. Most of the apiarian manuals possess some special excellence or other, and we have no wish to disparage any of them. Yet in all, we have found a want of explanations relating to several of the more recent improvements. It has, more especially, been our aim to give explicit and detailed directions on most subjects connected with the hiving and removing of bees; and also, to show how, by judicious application of the "depriving" system, the productive powers of the bees may be enormously increased.