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knock them outfor the Queen Bee, and take her away, andthen shall you bee sure to prevent further and future trouble.And thus (hall you keep your stocks full and lusty, whichotherwise were in danger of miscarrying, and the swarms (mostyears) would bee worth nothing.

Set the poorest fwarmsupona plank, and when they havedone working, dawb them round, allowing air, only through twoor three quilts s and set them in a dry cold place of your house, orbam, and so being little sensible of the alteration of the air, theywill steep much, and cat little.

CHAP. XV.

What Flowers the Bees gather of,

I T hath been almost generally received, that Bees gather fromall sorts of flowers, good, and bad, sweet, and bitter; someTW»ur. Arist »little, and but a little straiten th 5 vulgar position of all kinderof flowers,both of Heibs, and Trees (Uith one) except Dock*and Cheefrunner.

Atist de hist. Aristotle curtails this a little more, and tells us that theyAnimaUjf* gather of all flowers that have cells or sockets. Mr. Mcufsitc.» straitens this also, saying, They refuse no flowers, that are fra-

grant, contained in cells, or sockets; but this also must bee nar-rowed into (hotter bounds, as yet being too large, for of manyforts of such flowers, they meddle not with at all.

First, Bees gather not of flowers which have deep sockets,as Batchelors-buttons, Cuckow-flowers, Cockscomb, Jasmin,Cumphilly , Dead-nettle, Wood-btttony, Wild-blew-tcare,Teazil Red-hony suckle, rarely, and diver* others, and yetthese arc mt re abundant with hony.than many that the Bees ga-ther of. And of these the Humble bees gather plentifully, na-ture furnishing them with larger fangs , and longer tongues thanthe Bees.

2 Ordinarily they gather not of many little or small flowers,as Rubia,Pimpernel, bcorpioides, Hares-foot, Oliver, Vero-nica,&c.

3 Not ordinarily of many physical Herbs, as Etifamon,

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