162 THE BEE-KEEPER’S MANUAL. 
there is nothing less to be done than to move them 
to double the utmost range of their old flight. 
BEE PASTURAGE, AND NUMBER OF HIVES. 
It is almost needless to say that on the nature and 
extent of the vegetable productions, following in 
succession, in the immediate neighbourhood of an 
apiary, must mainly depend its prosperity. After 
every care has been taken on all points of housing 
and management, it is in vain to expect a large 
harvest of honey where nature has limited the sources 
of supply or restricted them to one particular season of 
the year. The most highly cultivated corn districts 
are rarely so favourable to bees as those in which wild 
commons, woods, and heathy moors prevail; or where 
some such farm products as Dutch clover, trefoil, 
saintfoin, buckwheat, tares, mustard, colewort, turnip 
or cabbage blossoms, do not enter largely into the 
staple of the country. The neighbourhood of some 
kinds of willows, too, and of hazels, in the opening 
spring, is of great advantage to our little collectors in 
furnishing farina; as also the blossoms of the furze, 
broom, bramble, wild thyme, borage, the golden rod, 
&c. To these we may add the large early stores of 
honey and farina available from many of the products 
of our horticultural gardens and orchards, as goose- 
berries, currants, raspberries, apples,* pears, plums, 
and other fruits. Wallflowers and mignonette are 
* Dr. Dzierzon and some other German bee-masters are, however, 
suspicious of apple blossoms as apt to oceasion foul- brood, as well as 
a complaint which they term the ‘mad sickness.” They couple in this 
connection ‘‘apple and mountain ash.” 
