advice on bee management and, after more than 40 editions, is still in print today. Langstroth on the Honey Bee was published in 1860. Move to Oxford, Ohio After 1858 Langstroth made Oxford, Ohio, his residence, and devoted his time to beekeeping. The site was , and was an ideal place to keep bees. Langstroth planted a row of linden trees along the street, and apple trees throughout his property. He sowed buckwheat and clover seed, using of ground for a formal garden, filled with the flowers that bees like best, and called it his honey garden. The home where he lived from 1858 to 1887 was built in 1856, and is now called Langstroth Cottage; it is designated a National Historic Landmark. It was donated to the Western College for Women, and is today home to the Miami University Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching. Langstroth received his first Italian bees at his home in 1863; Italian bees were more productive than the European bees that were most common in America at the time. He and his son sold the Italian queens at $20USD each, and in one year, sold 100 of them, with many being sent by post all over the United States. Later life In 1887, he moved with his daughter, Mrs. H. C. Cowan, and her family to Dayton, Ohio. Langstroth died at the pulpit of the Wayne Avenue Presbyterian Church in Dayton on October 6, 1895, just as he was beginning a sermon on the love of God. He is buried at Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum in Dayton. His epitaph reads as follows: Langstroth's papers are located at the American Philosophical Society Library in Philadelphia. Patents USPatent|9300 — L.L. Langstroth's patent for a Bee hive from October 5, 1852. USPatent|RE1484 — L.L. Langstroth's patent for a Bee hive Reissued from May 26, 1863. USPatent|61216 — L.L. Langstroth's joint patent (with S. Wagner) for an Improved Apparatus for Extracting Honey from the Comb from January 15, 1867. See also Clyde Cowan — his great-grandson, astrophysicist, and co-discoverer of the neutrino. Langstroth's Hive and the Honey-Bee, Dover Publications (original version, still in print) Ron Brown's Great Masters of Beekeeping, Bee Books New and Old Apiology References External links Scan of "Langstroth on the hive and the honey-bee" 1853 edition L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine) Langstroth papers at the American Philosophical Society Beekeeping pioneers 1810 births 1895