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Cav. V. Of fuch Plants as 
Bees moft. dehght in. 
and. knead. it about, their hind Legs, they 
gather Honey with their Trunk, which is 
hollow, by thrufting it into the Infide of the 
Bloffom,,and fo fuck it out; the Trunk hath a 
Communication with the Honey-bag, placed: in the 
Hinder-part of their Bodies, and they take up, and 
carry Water in the fame_manner to the Hive, which | 
is neceflary in working the Wax into the Comb. 
Befides Honey and Wax, they carry home to the 
Hive a kind of Subftance generally of a yellowith 
Colour, and. miftaken for Wax, becaufe they ftick 
it to their Thighs, but upon trial it will. neither 
knead together, nor melt by Heat like Wax; it is 
called Sandrack or Bee-bread, and they both eat it 
themfelves while it isfrefh, and they, are confined by 
bad Weather, and feed their Young with it ; but 
in time it grows rancid and fower, and then they 
throw it out of the Hive ; , it is fweer to the Tafte 
at firft, and is efteemed to be fome grofler Part of 
the Plant approaching to the Nature of Honey, but 
not fo pure, which they get from F lowers, that will 
not afford them Honey. | 
Bees delight much in.the Bloffoms of many of our 
common Fruit-Trees, Apples,Pears, Plumbs, Cher- 
ries, Goosberries, Rasberries, and therefore it is 
proper to have Bees near fuch Plantations. In 4pri/, 
May,and Fune,they have Flowers in Plenty, but are - 
hardeft put to itin March, Fuly and Auguf, In 
March they fly to the Hazel, the Sally, Goosberry- 
blofloms, Dandelyon and Wall-Flowers : They are 
very 
T: was before fhewn how Bees; gather Wax, 
