Paturage of Bees. Ig 
each one of which, by the affiftance of Phoe- 
bus, difclofes its fweets, and thereby invites 
the tranfported bee to rifle all their charms. 
Heath is attended with this advantage, 
that it needs no culture nor rearing; but, on 
the contrary, grows fpontaneoufly, in too great 
abundance, in many places; as, moft certainly, 
the greater half of Britain is covered with it ; 
but, like the clover, it yields alfo vaft quanti- 
ties of the fineft honey ; and, when the month 
of Auguft is favourable warm weather, no 
thriving hives of bees, placed near it, need 
fail, in.a {hort time, to enrich themfelves with 
plenty of honey. 
The flowers of furze, broom, and plane tree, 
as formerly hinted, are highly grateful to bees, 
as all of them afford abundance of matter to 
collect their honey and wax from. Furze, in 
particular, generally flowers early, and conti- 
nues long in bloffom. 
Befides the flowers above mentioned, there 
is a great variety of others, which, in their dif- 
ferent feafons, afford employment and materi- 
als for thebees; fuch as lillics, rofe-marys, yellow 
gowans, and the bloffoms of crocufes, {now- 
drops, oziers, fallows, vetches, alders, poppies, 
beans, goofeberry bufhes, and fruit trees of all 
: kinds. 
