244 INDEX. 
Honey, rich crops of, may be reaped without fowing, vii. a 
tolerable quantity produced even in the worft feafons, 7, ; 
vill. ; inference, viii. ix. the price of, reduced, 9 ; catalogue 
of the principal flowers that produce it, I13 Various opi- 
nions ref{pecting it, 2c, 223 fuppofed to undergo a change 
in the bladder of the bee, 20, 22, 23; the contrary proved, 
ib. 213 not above five minutes in the body of the bee, 21 ; 
beft when youngeft, 74. ; not made, but only collected by the 
bees, 22; perfect in the flowers, ib. ; not materially injured 
by keeping in the hive, 74.; all flowers contain fome of it, 
235 a conjecture as to the quantity contained in the king- 
dom, i/., 243 price of it might be much reduced, 273; and 
thus it would become a fource of national wealth, 7b.; and 
an article of exportation, 76. ; immenfe probable increafe of 
it in feven years, 48 ; hoiey of a deferted hive fhould be 
kept to feed bees, 109; fhould be melted and poured into 
empty combs, 113 ; fubftitutes for honey, 115 ; quantity of 
honey fufficient to tipple hives, 126; more collected by a 
certain number of bees in one hive, than by the fame num- 
erin two, 1673 the reafon, 74.; more collected in one 
very large hive, than in three or four ordinary ones, 198 ; 
reafons, id. ; time of taking honey, 200, 2013 and manner, 
201, 202, 203, 204 ; how to prepare honey, 205 ; and take 
it out of the hives, 206 ;, method of running and filtering 
honey, 207, 208, 209; and {queezing out an reineae 
7b. ; or making mead of it, 208; of the different kindé of 
honey, 2125; caufes of its candying inveftigated, 7b. ; does 
not from cold alone, 24. ; fome candies early and fome late, 
7b. ; even virgin honey often candies quickly, 213 ; candied 
honey not hurtful to bees, 7.3; the fpecies that remains 
longeft liquid defcribed, ib. 2143 a beautiful high coloured 
honey obtained from héath, 2143 when candied, it becomes 
griftly, : 26. ; old honey defcribed, 25.; not adulterated by the 
country dealers, 215 ; though fowitcinies {poilt through ig- 
norance, 7); anecdote of a knavith dealer, 4, ; honey fhould 
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