Of Bees. . 
Winter be fecured from cold Winds and 
Rains, and the warm Sun may be exclud¬ 
ed in the Winter-months, which fhining 
on the Hives, tempts the Bees to comea- 
broad to their ruine, andufually wakens 
them out of their Winter-ileeps provo¬ 
king them to expend their Provifion , 
which in the Spring-time, if the weather 
prove unfeafonable, they may want. l<; 
6 . You may make ule of your Giafs- 
Windows at any time to view the nume¬ 
rous Colonies of thefe moft laborious A- 
nimals. 
7. Thefe broad and flat Boxes will har¬ 
bour with advantage, as many Bees as pof- 
fibly can cohabit together in any one Colo¬ 
ny, with all imaginable conveniency. And 
as they increafe in Number, fo may you 
increafe your Boxes, until you find them at 
a flay: And then it isbeft to take them by 
theufualway of Smo hering by the fume 
of Brimftone, admitted by lome hole left 
at the bottom ot the Bee-houfe, and kept 
flopp’d until you have occafion to ufe it for 
thispurpofe, For let not any one imagine, 
that their Honey can be taken from them 
and the Bees preferved; tinlefsby (bine forts 
of driving mentioned by Butler in his Femi¬ 
nine Monarchy ) which aifo are not commend¬ 
ed, The 
