Pafurage of Bees. Il 
CHAP, - Wie 
OF THE PASTURAGE, OR FLOWERS, PROPER FOR BEES TO FEED 
ON, WITH A CATALOGUE OF SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL ONES. 
Pe the great variety of flowers, which 
wife Nature has io profufely laid before our no- 
ble infects, from which they may abundantly 
fupply themfelves with food, we fhall, in the 
firft place, give fome particular account of thofe 
five principal ones in this country, from which 
bees extract vaft quantities of honey ;—viz, tur- 
nips, rape, muftard, clover and heath; and then 
conclude this chapter, with fome account of 
many other excellent flowers which bees feed 
Orne! : 
Turnips, in particular, blow early in the 
{pring, and continue long in flower ; and they 
alfo yield both honey and farina, by which 
the bees are greatly excited to go abroad, and 
work upon them, when perhaps, in late fitua- 
tions, aa have fcarcely any other flower to 
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