Bee-Keeping

My apology for writing a Bee-Book is as follows:--I sent _The Times_ an account of a very successful honey harvest about the end of July, containing some observations on the tre...

But if you have any spare space--and there are always nooks and spots available in the smallest garden--sow on these lemon-thyme in abundance, rosemary, lavender, salvia, borage...

The inveterate use of the common straw hive, with its fire and sulphur application in autumn to its unhappy inmates, is deeply to be deplored. No humane man can look on the stra...

"If the object of your intentions be an autumnal hive, you had better ascertain that the massacre of the drones has taken place: an observation of the stand and of the ground ar...

"Have ready then a piece of smooth board of such a length that, when one end of it is placed in the tub of cold water, the other end may be conveniently rested against, and secu...

"When he found his hives attacked and their store of honey pillaged by these depredators, he contracted the opening left for the exit and entrance of the bees to such an extent...

Sir,--Since my letter appeared in your columns on "the Honey Harvest," I have received from yourself various communications from rectors, vicars, curates, &c., who feel a very g...

His exaggerated talk about bees being regicides would electrify Red Republicans, but it is not true. That the queen, who has precedence of birth, destroys the princess next to h...

Let me also beg all that value their lives to examine well every apple, pear, and peach they eat; for these venomous insects may be seen this year ensconced under the skin, and...

"The attention," says Lord Brougham,[B] "which has been paid at various times to the structure and habits of the bee, is one of the most remarkable circumstances in the history...

I once thought quarrels and angry controversies were confined to ecclesiastical denominations--churches and chapels. But I have learned what I did not expect, that not a few api...

Sir,--Having read with interest your letters in _The Times_ about bees, I thought you might like to see the following extract, which I met with the other day. I always think tha...

Black Panther: a Boy's Adventures among the Red Skins. Life among the Indians. By George Catlin. The Voyage of the Constance. By Mary Gillies. Stanton Grange. By the Rev. C. J....

"_If the reader can imagine the Vicar of Wakefield in America, this memoir will give a very good idea of what he would be among Yankee surroundings. There is the same purity, si...