y Physic-Gardens, and Bees. 53 



It is particularly to be predicated, if I do 

 not err, of William Turner, that he was the 

 first, in his little book published in 1549, to 

 give the vulgar names of herbs and plants, 

 as well as their scientific denominations. 



Our remote forerunners, long before the 

 Conquest, made mead or metheglin from 

 the honey of wild bees j and this product 

 was at the same time, in the absence of 

 any other sweetening medium, the only 

 substitute for sugar. Bee-culture, therefore, 

 acquired by degrees considerable importance 

 and development, and there were persons 

 who reared them specially, and owned what 

 might be termed bee-farms, with hinds to 

 attend to the hives. 



An account of the principal works on bees 

 will be furnished hereafter. 



