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^^ly entirely 



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winter pro- 



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lis nutritious 

 .id would be 

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frooi the 



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Sect. VI. 6.4. 



SECRETIONS. 



8r 



feventy pounds in each in one fortnight by their being placed near a 

 lar-e field of buck- wheat in flower ; and I well remember being my- 

 felf aftoniflied at feeing the number of bees on a field of buck-wheat 



Shropfh 



well as on a pi 



of cacalia fuaveolens in my 



den • from which the fcent of honey could be perceived at many feet 



diftance from the flower. 



In the fame manner the honey-dew on trees is ^ 



them 



which difeafe the nutritive fluid 



th 



ery injuno^ 

 etable fap-j 



feems to be exfuded by a retrograde motion of the cutaneous lympha- 



the fweatins ficknefs of the laft century, or is devoured 



tics, as in 



mid 



by infeas, which pierce the lymphatic veffels of th 



ibmmer, feed on the vegetable chyle, and void it almofl unchanged 



See Sea. III. II. 8. and XIV. I. 7. 



To prevent the depredation of infers on honey a wealthy man 11 

 Italy is faid to have poifoned his neighbour's bees, perhaps by mixin 

 arfenic with honey, againft wdiich there is a flowery declamation ii 

 Quintlllian. No. XIII. This mixture of honey and arfenic may b 



o 



fed with effea to poifon flies, which fometimes abound in pernio 



; • for the flies which frequent our houfes are liable 1 



multitude 



o-reat thirfl:, as is feen by their drinking any fluid, which is diffufed 



on a table ; whence if a flight folutiou of arfenic, with a little fuga 

 be put thinly on a plate or two,, and fet on chimney-pieces or window 

 the flies will eagerly drink it, and perifli almofl inftantly. It is p 

 bable that wafps might be thus defl:royed in hot-houfes 

 honey was added to attrad them by its od 



f 



httl 



e 



As th 



fe of the wax is to preferve the dufl: of the anthers from 

 moifture, which would prematurely burfl: them, the bees, which col- 

 led this for the conftruaion of the combs or cells, and colled the fa- 

 rina alfo probably for bee-bread for their larvse or maggot?, muft on 

 both thefe accounts alfo injure the vegetation of a country, where they 



too much abound. 



4. It isnoteafy toconjedure, why it was neceflTary, that this fecre- 



M 



tion 



