249 , INDE X. 
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Famine, direGtions to preferve bees from, 110, 1155 1315 Ste 
Food. 
Farmers, gentlemen, advifed to rear bees, on 2276 
Feeding, see Combs, and Food. 
Filth hurtful to bees, 223, 224. 
Flowers, melifluous, the number of, in Britain almoft infinite, 
vi. ; the principal ones proper for bees, catalogue of, 11, 
13, 14,1555 no kind of, refufed by them, 16; thofe firft 
pitched on, preferred ever after, 7b.; honey contained in 
all flowers, 23; thoufands of millions of them in Scotland, 
33, 343 artificial to be raifed, where natural ones fail, 40 3 
various kinds recommended to be fown, Ads 44 : bees fly far 
in fearch of, 44, 45. 
Fcod, direCtions how to fupply bees with, 110 3 four methods, 
III, 113, 114, 1153 weight of thofe hives that need fup- 
plies, 125, 1263 a hive with few bees will generally re- 
quire none, 1263 bees fhould be fed, when young drones 
are torn out before {warming, 183 ; feeding combs fhould 
be placed before hives whofe fituations are changed, 187. 
Frozen bees, method to recover, 106. 
furze, the flowers of, grateful to bees, 15 ; bloffoms early and 
continues long in flower, 2.3; advantage of rearing, 403 
ought to be fown on dykes or wafte ground, 43. 
G 
Geddie, John, Efq; a writer on bees, 2; the inventor of colo- 
ny hives, 147. 
Generation of bees, a miftake concerning the, 2 
Gentleman, opinion of an intelligent, refpecting the change of 
fyrup into honey, 22, 23; his experiment in proof a this, 
233 anecdote of another, 44. 
Genilemen of property, the increafe of Bee-hives begin to occu- 
py the attention of, 263 called upon to exert themfelves, 
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