ILLUSTRATIONS.

Frontispiece.—Coloured view of Geo. Neighbour and Sons' Apiary.

Plate I.—Italian Alp Queen, Drone and Worker Bees, with Anatomical Drawings Facing page 34

Plate II.—Dissected Bee, with Illustrations of various Members Facing page 86

Common Cottager's Hive 108

Neighbours' Crystal Palace Skep 109

The Cottager's Hive 110

Improved Cottager's Hive 112

Improved Cottage Hive (No. 5) 113

Improved Cottage Hive (No. 6), no windows 119

The Ladies' Observatory Hive 120

Nutt's Collateral Hive 123

Woodbury's Bar-frame Hive (wood) 135

Woodbury's Single Bar Frame as taken from hive 135

Woodbury's Bar-frame Hive (straw) 136

Woodbury's Bar-frame Hive (glass) 138

Neighbours' New Frame Hive (wood) 139

Neighbours' New Frame Hive (straw), with Frame Super 142

Neighbours' Cottager's Frame Hive (wood) 143

Neighbours' Philadelphia Frame Hive 144

Stewarton or Ayrshire Hive 147

Neighbours' Outdoor Unicomb Hive 158

Neighbours' Indoor Unicomb Hive 162

Bee House for two Hives—Front view 166

Bee House for two Hives—Back view 167

Bee House for twelve Hives—Front view 169

Bee House for twelve Hives—Back view 170

Ornamented Zinc Cover 171

Zinc Cover for Cottager's Hive 172

Wooden Cover for Frame Hive 174

Neighbours' New Frame Hive, with Cover, Stand, and Pair of Divisional Supers—Back view 175

Neighbours' New Frame Hive, ditto—Closed front view 176

Neighbours' New Frame Hive and Frame Super (glass), with large Cover and on Stand—Front view 178

Neighbours' New Frame Hive—Front view, closed 178

Neighbours' New Frame Hive (No. 81). Wood with Straw Crown, and Large Window in close-fitting Cover and Stand 179

Bell and Flat-shaped Glasses (5 varieties) 181

Payne's Glasses 182

Flap-topped Glass, with Cover for Table 182

Woodbury Glass-sided Bar Super 183

Bar-frame Super—Glass Sides and Top, with Shutters 184

Neighbours' New Divisional Super 184

Neighbours' New Sectional Super 185

Neighbours' New Bar-frame Holder 192

Honey Cutters 193

Honey Extractor 194

Neighbours' Queen and Drone Preventer 200

Neighbours' Bottle Feeder 203

Neighbours' New Can Feeders 204

Neighbours' Round Feeders 205

New Wood Feeder 206

Fumigators (2 illustrations) 207

Bee Dress or Protector 209

Bee Veil 210

Contrivance for protecting Queen Cell 244

Guide Comb Glasses 263

Weighing Hives 277

Bees at Exhibition of 1862 348

Exterior of an Apiary 352

Interior of an Apiary 353