and the Th efttng of them . 
borne vp with two forked Hakes fct faftin chcground, or by 
fome odier props. 
B Ee-hiues being thus fitted with all neceflaries, are after- 
wardatdiuers times of the y care to be diuerfly Ordered. 
The (JMeltjftJK ycare is moll fitly mealured by the Aftro- 
nomicall momhes (which begin With theSunnes entrance 
into the feuerall (ignes of the Zodiack, and are therefore cal- 
led by their names ) becaufe as the Sunne, entring into the 
tweluc fignes,and fo beginning thefe twelue monetbs, doth 
notoriously alter hiscourfe, making fte daies longer or 
ftiorter, the aire warmer or colder, and the earth more fruit- 
ful! or barren, making alfo both the tsEejuinoElia and Solfti- 
tia, in which thefoure quarters of the year £3 Spring, Sum- 
mer, Auturoncand Wmter take their beginnings } fothe 
moft notable alterations about Bees, in things either to be 
obferued in them, or to be done for them, doe like wife fall 
out in the beginnings of thefe moneths. 
But the foure Quarters the Bees begin one moncthfoo- 
ner then the Aftronomers. For their Spring or fit ft quarter 
^ beginneth with Pifces , when the Sunne beginneth by his 
quickningheattoreuiuc the flowers, which allthedead of 
Winter lay buried in thegroundj and the Bees hauingtafted 
thereof beginne to breed, v. and to increafc their companies 
for the fruirs of cnfuing Summer, which from the former 
Summer hitherto haue daily decreafed: the other Spring- 
a moneths are Aries and Taurus, v. n.6 3. &c. 
3f- 
Hoi» to order the 
Bee-btfes 
throughout the 
yeare. 
36. 
The rr.onstht uni 
qt artors of the 
Melifi'xanjeart 
is. 
m an ; Si Vf 
a Their Summer likcwife containeth Gemini, Cancer, and /”«-'/ 
Leo , moft rich and plcntifull in flowers and dewes,s/: where- V. c. 
with the multiplied Bees doe now ftore their Cells againft 
thcpenurieof Winter.^.#. 17' , ' . , 
•4 Their Autumne or Harueft, hath Virgo, Libra, and Scor- ' V 
pio : in which the Bee-mafters v: and the Mafter-Bees v : doe ‘^■c.io.p.t.n. 1. 
scape the ripe fruits of many Bees labours, v : ». 44. V-c.7.n. ij, & 
And their Winter confifteth of the three /?;// moneths : v. ydt.ty. 
in which the Bees liuc altogether vpon their Summer-ftore, 
and get nothing, v. n. 58. 
Hccre note, that although Winter and Summer doe pro- 
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