236 INDE X. 
Cafes, nine, of artificial fwarming, ftated, 170, ef feq.s See 
Swarming. 
Cells, royal, erected by the common bees, to raife Queens, 
60; feveral of them in a hive, 63 ; empty or falfe ones de-_ 
{cribed, ib. 645; doubt refpecting the matter thrown into 
the royal cells, 65 ; uncertain whether it is generative or 
“nutritive, 7. ; the royal cells torn by the young Queens, 
164; number, weight and form of them, 1653; manner 
of their fufpenfion from the hives, ib. 
Chevy chace, quotation from, 174. 
Changing the fituation of bees, advantages of, 185, et feq.; 
see Situation. 
Chzofing ftock hives, direCtions for, 88. See Hives, Septem- 
tember, &c. 
Clergymen advifed to keep bee-hives, 225; the wife of one 
draws a good deal of money from the author for her ho- 
ney, 7b.; two have wrote on the fubject, 26; anecdote of 
a Grecian prieft, 2. ; and of a Spanifh one, 226. 
Clover, a principal plant from which the bees collect honey, 
113; continues long in flower, 14; ought to be raifed in 
great abundance, ib.; the bees extremely fond of it, 2.3 
produces white honey, 21; advantages of fowing it, 403 
virgin honey coliected from its flowers, 213. 
Clufters of bees, fo firmly compacted about a Queen, that 
they could hardly be feparated, 1703; this done fometimes 
by enemies, 75. ; fometimes by friends, 171. 
Cod Fifh, number of eggs in a, 199. 
Ccld, extremely hurtful to bees, 7, 29, 44) 99, 100, 186, 
2175 how to guard them againft it, 100, 101, 1033 many 
die in fevere frofts, 10g, 121, 1223 the fame degree of, 
fatal to bees in Britain and P-ufha, 105; as great here for 
one week as in Ruffia or Siberia, 1063 whole hives of 
bees killed by cold, 197. 
Coldingham, the author’s native parith, formerly famous for 
bees, 29 ; capable of maintaining fifteen hundred bee-hives, 
S7s 
Colonies 
