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frequently nfing, even in good foil, on ditch- 

 banks, and other uncultivated places ; fo that 

 the evil, if not wholly, is, in part, occafioned 

 by the heath -, which, it is a notorious fad, 

 affords much honey, but of a bad quality. 



I will not, however, infer from this, that 

 buck is produdive of fine honey, and that it 

 has no fhare in the debafement of the Norfolk 

 honey. The flowers of buck have no doubt 

 ^pwerful, hifcious (mtW, which is difagreeahle 

 to many people ; but are not thofe of beans 

 equally powerful, equally lufcious, and to 

 fome perfons equally difagreeable ? I only 

 wifh that the evil effed of buck upon the 

 quality of honey, may be doubted, until it be 

 froved, by accurate experiments. 



For an inftance of a depopulated hive being 

 taken poITcfiion of by a new colony, fee 

 MiN. 126, 



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