. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 1737. The furniture of the apiary, or bee-house, consists of the hives or utensils in which each hive or swarm is congregated, and lives, and works, and of these there is a great variety of sorts. 1738. The Polish hive, or log-hive, {Paskka Pol.) {fig. 2
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 1737. The furniture of the apiary, or bee-house, consists of the hives or utensils in which each hive or swarm is congregated, and lives, and works, and of these there is a great variety of sorts. 1738. The Polish hive, or log-hive, {Paskka Pol.) {fig. 203.) may be considered as 293 the primitive form of artificial dwellings for bees. It is simply the trunk of a tree, of a foot or fourteen inches in diameter, and about nine feet long. It is scooped out (boring in this country would be better) for about six feet from one end, so to form a hollow cylinder of that length, and of six or eight inches dia- meter within. Part of the circumference of this cylinder is cut out during the greater part of its length, about four inches wide, and a slip of board is made to fit the opening. On the sides of this slip (a), notches are made every two or three inches, of sufficient size to allow a single bee to pass. This slip may be furnished with hinges and with a lock and key; but in Poland it is merely fastened in by a wedge. All that is wanting to complete the hive is a cover at the top to throw oft'the rain, and then it requires only to be placed upright like a strong post in the garden so as the bottom of the hollow cylinder may be not nearer the ground than two feet, and the opening slip look to the south. When a swarm is to be put in, the tree, with the door or slip opened, is placed obliquely over it; when the bees enter, the door is closed, and the holes stopped with clay till the hive is planted or placed upright. When honey is wanted, the door is opened during the finest part of a warm day, when most of the bees are out; its entire
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