The Apiary; Or, Bees, Bee-hives, and Bee Culture: Being a Familiar Account of the Habits of Bees, and the Most Improved Methods of Management, with Full Directions, Adapted for the Cottager, Farmer, Or Scientific Apiarian

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Kent, 1865 - 134 pàgines
 

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Pàgina xi - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home ; Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad ; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage, they with merry march bring home To the tent royal of their emperor...
Pàgina 6 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Pàgina xi - Where some like magistrates correct at home; Others like merchants venture trade abroad; Others like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil...
Pàgina 52 - I declare to the world than you are," said he, one day, to a friend, " for you publish what your own eyes only have seen, while I take the mean among many witnesses.
Pàgina 11 - And fix'd o'er sulphur: while, not dreaming ill, The happy people,' in their waxen cells, Sat tending public cares, and planning schemes Of temperance, for Winter poor ; rejoic'd To mark, full flowing round, their copious stores.
Pàgina 125 - How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes.
Pàgina 111 - If thou wilt have the favour of thy bees that they sting thee not, thou must not be unchaste or uncleanly...
Pàgina 51 - ... them. The reading of the works of Reaumur and Bonnet, and the conversation of the latter, directed his curiosity to the history of bees. His habitual residence in the country inspired him with the desire, first of verifying some facts, then of filling some blanks in their history ; but this kind of observation required not only the use of such an instrument as the optician must furnish, but an intelligent assistant, who alone could adjust it to its use. He had then a servant named Francis Burnens,...
Pàgina 6 - Their short proboscis sips No luscious nectar from the wild thyme's lips, From the lime's leaf no amber drops they steal. Nor bear their grooveless thighs the foodful meal : On others' toils, in pamper'd leisure thrive The lazy fathers of the industrious hive.
Pàgina 4 - ... difficulty, over the crowd, not an individual of which got out of her way, or seemed to care whether she fed or starved. But no sooner did she become a mother than the scene was changed...

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