Excerpt from The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman, 1862, Vol. 27: A Journal of Horticulture, Rural and Domestic Economy, Botany and Natural History Bees - hive queenless, 19 removing to a distance, 20; making swarm settle, 20; Ligurian queens, 20, 100; age of, 38; at Wolver hampton in 1861, 39; drone in fluence, 39, 77, 158; age of queen, 39; notes on, 39; feeding, 40; moisture in hive, 40 virgin queen breeding drones, 58; ventilating hives, 59; young expelled, 59; drones from old queens, 59; how I became a keeper in Oxon, 59, 268, 287, 327; season in Roxburgh shire, 60; song of, 60; humble, their fertilisajon, 76; partheno genesis in, 77; queen breeding drones, 77; uniting, 78; Ligurian misadventure, 78; profits of, 79; parthenogenesis in, fecundation of queen, multiplication of Ligu rian, 97 young expelled, uniting, B. W.'s apiary in 1861, 98; uniting, 118, profit of black with Ligurian queen how it fared with the Pluvians, 119; super-posed hive becomes the stock-hive, 139; queens expelled; uniting, 140; season in Renfrewshire, 158; uniting, misadventure with hybri dised queen, 159; super-posed hive does not become the stock, 179, 180; storifying system, 179; Ligurian prowess, parthenogenesis in bee and moth, 179; uniting, 180; feeding, propolis as a var nish, 180; does the super become the stock? 265; art of queen making, 205; bottle-feeding, 206; bar-and-slide hives, 208; super posing, 227; Ligurian in Scotland, 227; parthenogenesis in, 228; driving and uniting, aspect for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.