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Bee culture - Early works to 1800
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The gentleman gardener instructed in sowing, planting, pruning, and grafting seeds, plants, flowers, and trees; also in the manner of making wines from the fruits of the garden; and in the management of bees. To which is added The gardener's kalendar, Shewing The particular Work to be done every Month In The Kitchen-Garden, Fruit-Garden, and Pleasure-Garden. By the Reverend Mr. Stevenson, of East-Redford, Nottinghamshire.
Stevenson, Henry.Date: 1769- Books
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An essay on the management of bees. Wherein is shewn the method of rearing those useful insects; and that the practice of saving their lives when their honey and wax are taken from them was known to the antients, and is, in itself, simple and easily executed. By John Mills, F. R. S. Member of the Royal Societies of Agriculture of Paris and of Roüen, and of the Oeconomical Society of Berne.
Mills, John, -1784?.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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The practical bee-master: or, a treatise, wherein the management of bees, both in common hives, and in the colony way, without killing them for their honey, is, step by step and on all probable occurrences, better and more particularly directed, than in any book hitherto published. By Robert Maxwell of Arkland, a Member of, and Secretary to, the Honourable, the Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland.
Maxwell, Robert, 1695-1765.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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The young gard'ner's director. Furnishing him with instructions for planting and sowing, whatsoever trees or seeds have been thought worthy of care, in a garden or orchard, either for profit or pleasure. Also containing the Culture of them all, after they are Set, or Sown; plac'd in Alphabetical Order. To which is prefix'd some Directions for the Management of Bees; to those that think fit, or have already introduc'd them into the Garden. The Whole being for the most part Experiments, and what are not, are taken from the best Authors, viz. Mr. De la Quintinye, Mr. Evelyn, Solitary Gard'ner, Mr. Meager, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Worlidge, and others. By H. S. Philokepos, Master of the Free-School in East Retford; Author of the (lately publish'd) Greek Grammer.
Stevenson, Henry.Date: [1716]- Books
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Sydserff's treatise on bees; being the result of upwards of thirty years experience. Executed ON A more general, extensive, familiar, and useful Plan, Than Any Other Work Of The Kind Yet Published. By R. Sydserff, Leigh ON Mendip.
Sydserff, Robert.Date: M.DCC.XCII. [1792]