44 How to increase the number 
of plane trees and fallows. They fhould like- 
wife fow a good deal of white clover, {weet 
refida, or mignionette, &c. with any other 
flowers that will grow upon the ground, either 
by nature or art. | 
In winter, particular care fhould be taken to 
preferve the bees from cold ; in fpring, from 
famine, and robbery by other bees. And 
when they are ready to fwarm, great care mutt 
be taken to lodge them in proper habitations. 
With fuch attentive management, I can ven- 
ture to affure all who will makethe experiment, 
that 100 well-chofen ftock-hives, will, in a to- 
lerably good feafon, produce from 180 to 
200 or even 220 hives, whatever more. 
Some may object, that, while the proprie- 
tor, who wifhes to increafe the breed of bees, 
raifes many flowers for that purpofe, his 
neighbour, who, perhaps, takes no trouble of | 
this kind, may fhare the benefit, by his bees 
coming and feeding upon them §. To this it 
“may 
§ I.was fent for on the 23d of May laft, by a gentleman in 
Edinburgh, who withed me to bring him a hive of bees, and to 
pitch upon the moft proper fituation for placing it in his garden. 
The day being very fine, and the fruit trees in full blafiom, ; 
there was a pear tree among many others, which was full of fine 
bloiloms; Obferving a number of bees bufily employed upon 
them, 
