16 results filtered with: 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]- Books
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The gentleman gard'ner's director. Being instructions for planting and sowing, trees or seeds, for profit or pleasure. Alphabetically digested. With directions for the management of bees. To which is added, the kalendar: shewing what work is to be done every month in the year, in the Kitchen-Garden, Flower-Garden, and Orchard. By the Rev. Mr. Stevenson, of East-Retford, Nottinghamshire.
Stevenson, Henry.Date: 1744- Books
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The experienced bee-keeper, containing an essay on the management of bees : wherein is shewn, From long Practice, the most easy and profitable Method of treating those useful insects. With many Observations and Experiments entrirely new; particularly interesting to the Keepers of Bees, and useful to every Family. Together with An improved Method of making Mead, and a great Variety of other Wines, with Honey.
Bromwich, Bryan I'Anson.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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A new plan for speedily increasing the number of bee-hives in Scotland; and which may be extended, with equal success, to England, Ireland, America, To Any Other Part Of The World Capable Of Producing Flowers. By James Bonner, Bee-Master, author of practical warping made east, &c.
Bonner, James, writer on bee-keeping.Date: [1795]- Books
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The antient bee-master's farewell; or, full and plain directions for the management of bees to the greatest advantage; disclosing further improvements of the hives, boxes, and other instruments, to facilitate the operations; especially that of separating double and treble hives or boxes, with certainty and safety, without injuring the bees; interspersed with new but important observations: the whole studiously adapted to general use; with an appropriate method for the curious. Also brief remarks on Schirach, and other distinguished apiators on the continent. Deduced from a series of experiments during thirty years. Illustrated with plates. By John Keys, of Bee-Hall, near Pembroke.
Keys, John.Date: 1796- Books
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The practical bee-master: in which will be shewn how to manage bees either in straw hives or in boxes, Without Destroying Them, And With More Ease, Safety, And Profit, Than BY Any Method Hitherto Made Public, Viz. I. To manage Bees in Straw Hives, with new constructed Tops, at a small expence, as profitably and easily as with Boxes. II. In Boxes of an improved and cheap Construction, easily to be managed, and with so little Disturbance to the Bees, that all the necessary operations may be performed without any Danger. III. To catch and secure the Queen, or to fix her and a Swarm to any place you please. IV. To cause Bees to quit a Hive, and to be so tractable as to suffer themselves to be mandled without Stinging. V. Several Methods of Swarming Bees Artificially. VI. To cause a Swarm to work in separated Glasses, without any Hive; or in globular or other glasses, so that pure Virgin Honey may be taken when in its utmost Perfection. Vii. To prevent or cause Bees to swarm. Viii. To take the Honey and yet preserve the Bees, with common Hives only. IX. To unite Casts, Swarms, and Stocks. X. A Catalogue of, and Observations on, the most proper Flowers or Pasturage for Bees. XI. An easy and certain Method of preserving Stocks in Winter and cold Springs. XII. Several new and improved Methods of extracting the Wax from the Combs, two of them without either Straining or Pressing; and each by a single Operation: but more perfectly, and with far less. Trouble and Expence of Fuel than hitherto practiced. Together With Such Full And Plain Directions That the meanest Cottager may attain this profitable Art Without Difficulty, and at a small Expence; interspersed with occasional strictures on Mr. Thomas Wildman's Treatise on bees: With Several New Discoveries And Improvements, The Result Of AtLong Experience, And Deduced From Actual Experiments, by John Keys, Bee - Master.
Keys, John.Date: [1780]- Books
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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-Retford, Nottinghamshire.
Stevenson, Henry.Date: 1766- Books
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A new and compleat bee-master, &c.
Worlidge, John, active 1660-1698.Date: 1710?]- Books
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A treatise on the culture of peach trees. To which is added, a treatise on the management of bees; and the improved treatment of them. By Thomas Wildman.
Combles, de, -1770?.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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A treatise on the management of bees; wherein is contained the natural history of those insects; with the various methods of cultivating them, both Antient and Modern, and the improved Treatment of them. To which are added, the natural history of wasps and hornets, and the Means of destroying them. Illustrated with copper-plates. By Thomas Wildman.
Wildman, Thomas, -1781.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The antient bee-master's farewell; Or, Full and plain directions for the management of bees to the greatest advantage; Disclosing further improvements of the hives, boxes, and other instruments, to facilitate the operations; especially that of separating double and treble hives or boxes, with certainty and safety, without injuring the bees; interspersed with new but important observations: the whole studiously adapted to general use; with an appropriate method for the curious. Also brief remarks on schirach, and other distinguished apiators on the continent. Deduced from a series of experiments during thirty years. Illustrated with plates.
Keys, John.Date: 1796- Books
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The bee-Master's companion, and assistant. Wherein is set forth the properest methods of managing those insects, so as they may turn out to the best advantage. Shewing an effectual Way to preserve them from Famine, Cold, Robbers, Mice, or other Enemies: also how to make all your Hives equal in Bees, so as never to have any weak Hive; with an Account of the Power the working Bees are invested with, of raising any Fgg in the Hive to be a Queen, when the Community stands in Need of One. By James Bonner, Bee-Master, Auchencrow, near Berwick upon Tweed, Author of Practical Warping made Easy.
Bonner, James, writer on bee-keeping.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]