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wheat, naflurtium, yellow vetches, faint- 

 foin, alders, fcabious, fun-flower, broom, 

 Michaelmas daifies, winter favory, Jacob's 

 beard, purple houfe-leek, tree-ivy j and a 

 few others cf lefs note. 



Thofe marked with * are fuch as pro- 

 duce the greater!: quantity of honey, or fa- 

 rina ; and thofe with **, fuch as yield 

 xh^jinifi honey. Some of them afford both 

 honey and farina. They are ranked nearly 

 in the order they blow. 



Bees are moft, fond of fpots where large 

 quantities of their favourite flowers are to be 

 found together. Fields of buck-wheat, or 

 WHITE clover, will be thronged with bees 

 buzzing their joys, fo as to be heard at a 

 great diftance ; while plants that afford 

 finer honey, but fcattered here and there, 

 will be negle&ed. When feveral forts of 

 honey flowers grow near each other, they 

 will only collect zlfijl from thofe that fur- 

 nifh the beft honey. For inftance, if feveral 

 fpecies of thyrrie are planted together, they 

 will prefer the creeping lemon thyme only, 

 as long as its\Jk>wers laft. In feafons of 

 fcara'/v, they are obliged to take up with 

 L 2 fpecies 



