|5 A Thettre ef fclhical Ttj'nig UfeUt^

Bees will swarm any time of the day, between eight ** themorning,and four in the afternoon,but the chief time of swarm-in®,is between eleven and one. Many stocks when they are- , disposed to swarm, will rise in a cloudy season often before theSun shine upon them , 1 have had some by eight of the dock ;but chiefly » a hot gleam, after that a showr, or a dark cloudhath sent them home , but in hot and dry weather it is not so.The swarming months are As til, Maj-> June, and July, rarely,though sometimes in Augufi,

To judge by the time of their swarming, which will thrive,ievery uncertain, because of the variable weather that often sol-lows after, sot being checked a little,and discouraged at the first,for a week together , they will scarce work kindly all the yearafter, so that many (though less, and coming a month after) nothindred at all by ill weather , will bee better than those at theend of the year. Aad another cause why forward swarmesthrive not after foul Weather, is, because they are very vcntrousabroad , and by the stormy winds, and unseasonable weathermany are diminished, and thereby their increase exceedinglyretarded.

Signet of after swarm* are more manifest and certain,for about ten dayes after the first swarm is cast, sometimes a littlesooner, sometimes a day ot two later, the next Princess will be-ginto tune in her treble voyce a mournful and begging note, asifshee did pray her Queen mother to give her leave to beegone, unto which voyce if the Queen vouchsafe to reply , tu-ning her l»se to the young Princess treble, as commonly sheedoth (though sometimes not intreatedinadayortwo ) thenshee consents, and the third day after expect a swarm. Thefirst day after the grant,how fair soever the weather he,they willnot go, and not ordinarily on the next day, except it bee veryfair; buton the third day, though it bee somewhat close, andcloudy weather, yet sometimes the weather proving very coldand windy, 1 have known them stay five or six dayes after li-berty granted.

The evening before they swarm, the young Princess goescalling from ooe part of-the Hive to another , sometimes idee isbefore, sometimes behinde, sometimes above, bat still calls, andresting a while between, shee still reneyve* her calling. In the

morning