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matics, yield little or no honey in our cli- 

 mate ; though they do in warmer countries. 

 In ours, where wet and cold fo often oc- 

 cur, the changes are fo fudden (but gener 

 rally not in all countiesalike atthefame time) 

 as to affect the flowers in the difference of 

 their products, fuiting one fort, and not an- 

 other. Lavender is a particular inftance, 

 which is very abundant, and yields a large 

 quantity of honey late, when mofl others 

 have done. 



Very dry summers are as unfavour- 

 able, in caufing the flowers to fade and die 

 too fpeedily to yield much honey. Furze 

 or gorfe, in many parts of Britain, the bees 

 collect from ; yet, in the vicinity of Pem- 

 broke, I have obferved it to be entirely ne- 

 glected by them : whereas, the quantity 

 here is fo large in the hedges and fields, 

 that the product: of honey would be very 

 great. Rape is very beneficial to bees, as 

 alfo turnip, and, as it is later in bloom, will 

 be ferviceable when the other is gone. 



Some flowers, it is probable, contain at 

 once all the honey they can furnifh, and, 

 when deprived of that, yield no more, 



