C.J. 
and the Hitting of them . 
nine and three, and fometime an houre fooner or later : bug 
chiefly betweene eleuen and one. They choofe rather the 
fore-noone,ifthe weather pleafe them : ocherwife they will 
Hay for a faire houre in the afrer-noone. This time of the day 
therefore, in the fwarming months, your Bees mull: conti- 
nually be attended. & 
The fwarming moncths are two,<j<?7m'«i and Cancer : one Thet*>» far- 
xnoneth before the longeft day, and another after. 
m 
In fome very backward y eres, fuch as was 1611, & 1622. there hauc bin 
fwarmes a wceke in Leo , which did well, (the Bramble,that was wont to be 
a fortnight or three weekes rather, v. not blowing before that time : ) 
Likewife in warme Countries in a kinde Spring, fome haue come fswae- 
what before Germt , but this alfo is rare. 
ruing monetbs ■ ^ ^ 
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Lattfwamis « 
Thofc that come before the Solftice, in the afcending of K*the fames , ~s. 
theSunne,are rathe fwarmes. Thofe that come after, in his / 
defending, arc late fwarmes. But there are few that come 
in the firft fortnight , and they very good : few alfo in the 
laft fortnight, namely after S.^f^rj-tidc, and they all as bads 
vnleire the back wardnelfe of the y eere, when it happeneth , 
doe mend them. 
Note heere that in theHeath-countrie, fwarmes are vfually Iatemrd , 
namely in the latter part of Cancer and the forepart of Leo: which fome 
yeeres prouc better then the rathe. 
Thofe that fwarme before the blowing of knap-weed, 
come in very good time: before the blowing of blackberies, 
v. they may liue and doe well : but blackbery-fwarmes , y.c.6.n-^§, JLsL 
fpcciallycaftlings,arefeldometobckept,asbeingmorelike- n. 
ly to die then to liue : and if they liuc, they feldome fwarme Blac k m ^ erie ‘ 
the next yeere. And moreouer they weaken the ftocks from 
whence they came, which otherwife the next yeere would — ■ ’ 
fwarme betime : and then one fuch fwarme is worth three of 
thofe lateward ones. Wherefore put fuch backe againe into 
theftocke : which you may eafily doe,fo foone as they are 
hiued, by knocking them downe vpon a table clofe to the 
doore : their fellowcs that are behinde will foone be in with 
them. And if they rife againe, ferue them fo till they ccafe® 
But if you fpiethem rifing before the Queene be comeforthj 
Ihucchem in a while, and that will flay them. 
