of Bee-hives in Scotland. : aK 
is a poflibility of this, but I will venture to af 
firm, that fuch a thing has feldom ever yet hap- 
pened in Britain*, Or, at leaft, if there is, or 
ever was, any one place in the ifland overftock- 
ed with them, there are twenty other pla- 
ces, which never reared the fourth part of 
the number that they were able to maintain. 
Nay, there are many excellent fituations for 
bees, which perhaps never had 20 ftock hives 
on them, although by nature abundantly pro- 
vided with excellent pafture for many hun- 
de dreds. 
* There are fome few places, indeed, fuch as white benty 
ground, where there ts fcarcely a heath, clover, muftard, or 
runch flower to be feen, nor even any furze, broom, or plane 
trees growing, and which are almoft quite void of all other flow- 
ers. Such places are certainly very bad fituations for bees, and 
they will never thrive on them, or on any fimilar unproductive 
grounds. ‘There are again fome other places, which have but a 
few natural flowers, and where no artificial ones are reared. Such 
_ places may perhaps have hardly a fufficient quantity of flowers in 
eight miles circumference, to feed eight flocks of hives ; Where- 
as, in more favourable ficuations, the fame extent of ground 
could eafily produce as many flowers as would feed eight fcore. #P, 
There are fome other grounds, which are excellent for produ- 4° ~ 
cing corn, but which perhaps have little clover, muftard, or runch- 
es, in their neighbourhood, and neither gardens nor moors with- 
in reach. Such places are naturally bad fituations for bees; but 
by rearing fome turnips, muftard, or clover, and fome furze in 
hedges, or on wafte grounds, they may eafily be rendered ex- 
ceMent fituations for thele ufeful infeds, 
