. Hints on ornamental gardening : consisting of a series of designs for garden buildings, useful and decorative gates, fences, railroads, &c., accompanied by observations on the principles and theory of rural improvement, interspersed with occasional remarks on rural architecture. . F^ u APIARY. 107 PLATE XXVI. AN APIARY. THE cultivation of bees as a rural amasementj gives occasionfor the annexed plate, presenting a subject for garden embel-lishment ; for few studies afford more satisfactory results topersons of leisure and reflection, than are to be obtained bycontemplating the habits and con
. Hints on ornamental gardening : consisting of a series of designs for garden buildings, useful and decorative gates, fences, railroads, &c., accompanied by observations on the principles and theory of rural improvement, interspersed with occasional remarks on rural architecture. . F^ u APIARY. 107 PLATE XXVI. AN APIARY. THE cultivation of bees as a rural amasementj gives occasionfor the annexed plate, presenting a subject for garden embel-lishment ; for few studies afford more satisfactory results topersons of leisure and reflection, than are to be obtained bycontemplating the habits and conduct of these little animalsfrom which just lessons of prudence, industry, and social virtue,may be as correctly acquired, as from the deep-studied instruc-tion of the schools. The design for an apiary is given as an ornamental receptionfor the hives, which are, as usual, placed on forms, and shelteredby a roofing which encompasses them from the ground in anarched canopy covered with reeds, and lined beneath an openingto admit a free current of air, with straw mattings, similar to thehives themselves, the more fully to screen them from theexcessive heat which transpires from other roofings, and is inju-rious to their contents. The back of this erection is supposedto be glass
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