The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 678
f the door in the rear.Currant bushes are growingup the two sides, and a fewplants of thyme in front.The bee-holes in the bark look like keyholes, and they,being the same as in a door, and painted like bark, are notnoticed; they have brass outside shuts in cold weather. Construction of a Beehive… … 666 New Instrument for an inch wide, in this way, •. • Get a beehive, and fix a fewthin willow sticks up the sides and top inside. Line the insidewith canvass fixed to the sticks, and fastened outside thehive. Fix a thin board in the mouth of the hive, making itfit quite close and tight. Then make…