10 Of the Apiary. 
while the fun’s beams invite them to it. ce 
though it is well known, that bees will thrive 
well in high and windy fituations, yet 2 low 
one is always to be preferred. In the neigh- — 
bourhood of the apiary, there fhould be abun- 
dance of flowers, from which the bees may col- 
lect their wax and honey. | 
Were a choice allowed me, where ‘to place 
my bees, it would be in an early fituation,—a_ 
hollow glen by the fide of a rivulet, furround- 
ed with abundance of turnips in bloffom, in the 
{pring,—muftard and clover in fummer,—and 
heath inthe latter end of fummer and harveft; 
with a variety of other garden and wild flow- 
ers in their feafons. However I would not be 
underftood, as if I hinted that bees would not — 
thrive, unlefs they were placed in fuch’an ad- 
vantageous fituation, as the contrary can be pro- 
ved: for bees have thriven amazingly well, in 
places where they were not within reach of 
many of the above mentioned flowers ; but al- 
though they will do wellin moft fituations,and — 
fly far for food, yet they will thrive far better, 
when fituated among or near good pafture ; 
and furrounded with abundance of food. This 
leads us forward to fhew what js the proper 
pafture for bees, which fhall be the fubje@t of 
the following chapter. 
CHAP, 
