The Handy Book Of Bees PDF Download

Excerpt from The Handy Book of Bees: Being a Practical Treatise on Their Profitable Management Some years ago, I was induced by my respected friend, Mr W. Thomson, then editor of 'The Gardener, ' to contribute a series of articles on bees for that periodical. Mr Thomson heralded these articles with a few complimentary remarks. He then said: "We had practical proof of the extraordinary success resulting from Mr Pettigrew's system of bee-management when he was our foreman in the gardens at Wrotham Park, Middlesex, twenty-five years ago. We assure our readers who may peruse his letters, that though he may recommend what may clash violently with their present knowledge of the subject, he is, notwithstanding, a safe guide; and that where profit is the object, no writer that we have ever read can be compared to him. We predicate that his letters will be of far greater value to all interested than the cost of the journal for many years to come." My father, James Pettigrew, was a labouring man, and perhaps the greatest bee-keeper that Scotland ever produced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.