14 Pafturage of Bees. 
may be fo protracted, as to afford the bees a 
fufficiency of pafture during the whole Wop he 
ing feafon. 
in June comes the white clover, wuiich, Goud 
tinues long in bloffom, and alfo yields abuine a 
dance of the fineft of honey: And wherever | 
the proprietor of bees has it in his power, he 
fhould be particularly attentive to raife it in 
his pafture lands; and, as I hinted with refpect 
to turnips and rape, the clover grafs will | 
pay the rent of the ground, exclufive of what 
_advantage the bees derive from it. So fond 
i . “A . am 
are the bees of this flower, that “whenever it — 
appears, they will defert and overlook many 
other excellent flowers, as unworthy of their 
attention, and eagerly dart upon it, and work 
and fing thereon all the day Jong, until the — 
cold evening chafe them with reluctance home 
to reft: But, as all nature’s beauties fade, and ; 
thereby give way to their fucceffors, fo does 
this beloved herb, as, about the end of July, — 
they begin to blacken, and the balmy dew to 
forfake their fweeteft lips ; then our heroes 0 
in fearch of frefh provifions, and in their ram- 
bles, as they fkim over our lofty mountains, 
are attracted by the blue heather bells, which 
are numberlefs as the fands on the fea fhore ; : 
each 
