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go up) and to allure them the sooner, anoint the edges os' theHive with a little honey, and sprinkle a little within it.

It will not be amiss to (hred, and order here and there someboughs of the trees in, or near your Bee-garden, that they mayhang out, as it were from the rest mote opportunely to enter*-tain the Bees when they swarm. Yet in places where are nei-ther trees, nor dead hedges, they will settle upon pales, nettles,mallows, they will refuse nothing they readily meet with*;sometimes on the very-grafsr Thus in the Island of Ftwi-ne [s.

To cause stocks that lye out more speedily to swarm , diversTctn Mo" , tui® 8 are prescribed. To keep them cool by watering and stia-dowittg of them, and inlarging ,of the door, to give them aire(alwayes provided that there be no back-door in the Hive ) Ihave with a contrary course occasioned^heir swarming, firstrubbing the bottome os the stool again* the door well Withwormw<»d , orthe juyee of Elder, and all the sides about thedoor, and laying wormwood, or Mayweed also , close to themouth, and also before,above the door; which being done, Ihave in the heat of the day taken off their cover, so that not be-ing well able to continue in the Hive, nor yet to rest under it, noron the sides of the Hive, they have presently (warmed;

A second way prescribed by Mr. Butler is, when they havelain out ( although they have had fit weather two or threedayes) then the next calm and warm day a little before noon(when the Sun staineth, and you fee no clouds coming to hideit) put in as many as you can with your brush (ic is better tofmoak them in) and sweep down the rest, not suffering any tocluster again : These rising in the calm heat of the Sun, willmake such a noise, as if they were swarming, which their fel-lows hearing , will perhaps come out unto them, and begin toswarm. It is but a perhaps, for 1 have seldome seen this coursesuccessful.

When all hope of their swarming is past, in some eveningwhile it is yet light (faith Mr. Butler) holding a Hive underthose that lye our, cut them off with a tight thred held streightbetween two hands > and cany them to an over-swarmer thatyou would mend, knock them down on a table close before hisHwe, intowbrch,because jhey come without a Prince, they ate

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