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Rape, one of the principal plants that produce flowers proper a E 
for bees, TI, 135 flowers later than turnips, 13. = ea 
Reofons for the paucity of bee-hives in Scotland, 28, 29, 30, 
315 for increafing their number, oh 
Resumur, 2 writer on bees, quoted, 191, 199. 
Re-inforcing bee-hives, direétions for, 135, et feg. definitionand 
object of, 136 5 circumftances that render it neceflary, ib; Bs 
_ precautions, i>. ; ambafladors fhould be fent to the deficient - 
hive, 137. bees will fight at one time and unite at another, 
138; driving and rapping defcribed, ib. 139 ; the operatior 
quite ealy, 140; how to re-inforee weak hives, 143, 14251430. 
Remedies for the fting of a bee, 87, 88. a seas 
Removing of bee-hives, 91, from a great diftance by land, 92 ; 
danger of jolting, 93; water carriage far preferable, 4. 
Rich proprietors advifed to raife turnips, 12; might make - 
much more of their bees than they do, 30. 
Robberies and wars of bees, 1165 defcribed, 117; danger of — 
coming near the battle, id. ; caufles, 118; how to diftinguith © 
robbers, 1193 and get rid of them, ib, 120 ; robbers of the 
human fpecies deftructive to bees, 217 3 as well as thofe of 
their own, 7d. 
Roguifh bee-mafters, dead hives left by, to entice their neigh- 
bours {warms, 1573; ought to be ftrictly punifhed, 7. ; 
(see Law) a roguith honey dealer juftly rewarded, 215. 
Royal cells erected to rear Queens, 60, see Cells. 
- Runches, the flowers of, proper food for bees, 13. 
Ruffia, bees might be imported. cheap from, 49 ; endure a fe- 
vere cold in, 1053 the cold as great here one week lately, 
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Safe-guard, or harnefs, defcribed, 83. 4 
Sallows, the flowers of, afford work and materials fo be 
153 ought to be planted by men of property, 43» 
Sam/on’s dead lion, made a hive of, by the bees, 148+ 
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