448 INDEX. 
O. 
Oak, the leaves of, honey dew found on, EO, Oy 
Oeconomy tural, the culture of bees a branch of, within the 
reach of the pooreft cottager, vil. 
O/d people, the increafe of bee hives would afford employ- 
‘ment for, 48, 49, I50- 
Order and regularity great among bees, 53. 
Over-frocking fields with bees, no danger of, 34, 355 36. 
Oziers, the flowers of, afford honey and work for bees, 15. 
P. 
Parnaffus, account of 'a repaft of honey at, 225. 
Parifbes, fome, that have not twenty hives, might maintain 
three hundred, 32; a thoufand hives in each would not 
extract the half of the honey in their flowers, 37. 
Parliament, an act of, fhould be paffed, if no law already ex- 
ifts, againft allowing dead hives to remain in apiaries, 157- 
Pafiurage of bees, il. fee Flowers, Muftard, Rape, &c. 
Pafture, good, bees thrive beft near, re. 
Patriots called upon to attend to the fubjeét of this treatife, oe 
Paucity of bee-hives, reafons for the, in Scotland, 28, 29, 3 
Philifcus, a contemplator of bees, 2. 
Philofiphers puzzled to account for the diverfity of talents 
among mankind, ill. ; antient, who contemplated bees, 1. 
2, 4445 bees worthy the attention of, 3 3 colony hives ufe- 
ful to the inquifitive, 147. 
Plane-trees, the flowers of, afford food for bees, 13 ; highly 
agreeable to them, 75. ; ought to be planted on purpofe, 43. 
leafure of keeping bees, 1, 35 of the bee-mafter in feeing his 
hives fwarming, 151, 1523 sce Bees, Hives, &c. 
Poetical evlogium on bees, 73 picture of their wars, 157. 
Poland, a market for purch aha bees cheap, 49. 
Poor among mankind, bees refemble the, 163; the culture of 
bees would afford employment for, 48, 4o. 
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