3 8 Of Bees. 
In the firft of the Spring in February, if 
the weather be fair, they will abroad; and 
In that Month and the next, as the Spring 
is earlier and later, they gather much on 
1 the Hazel , Dandclyon,Dazie , Violet , Withy , 
Alder , Daffodil , &c. But above any o- 
ther Tree they moft affeft the Phyllirea j 
one fort of them beareth in thofo Months 
an abundance of greeniih Blofloms which 
yield great plenty of a Gummy Rofinny 
Sweat, which the Bees daily tranfport to 
their Hives, and yet it as often as the day 
- renewetb. Nothing can be more accepta¬ 
ble to your Bees than a Hedge of this Tree 
about your Apiary, it being a very clofe 
Fence green all the Winter, and yielding fo 
great a quantity of acceptable Food in the 
ufoal time of their greateft Neceffity. 
Although thefe Trees are not now very 
common, yet are they eafily propagated 
from Seeds, Layers or Slips. And I do af- 
fore you the effe&s of them to be as afbre- 
faid, and do not advife it to your lofs, as 
a certain Author did to place the Elm a- 
bout your Apiary ^ a Tree that hath been 
always efteemed injurious to Bees, not on¬ 
ly by ancient and experienced Bee-mafters, 
but our modern Botanicks. Nor as hath 
been advifed to plant the Palm-tree , which 
neither 
