26 Reasons why there are fo few 
winter and fpring ; whereby they will be ena- 
bled greatly to increafe in numbers, as well as 
in produce, in the courfe of the fucceeding fea- 
fon. 
In the next chapter we fhall take a ‘view of 
the vaft increafe of the number of hives that 
may eafily be made in Scotland ; an object 
which I am happy to find already begins to’ 
occupy the attention of many gentlemen of 
property ; and the promotion of which I hope 
will foon become general. Nothing indeed 
would yield me greater pleafure and fatisfac- 
tion, than if, by any exertion of mine, I could 
be inftrumental in fetting on foot, or carrying 
into execution, a meafure of fo much utility 
and importance to the public. 
C BOA CPS oy. 
REASONS WHY THERE ARE SO FEW BEE-HIVESIN SCOTLAND, 
| is not to be expected, upon my propofed 
plan, that I fhould enter deeply into the na- 
ture, generation, and properties of bees; al- 
though 
