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both fingle hives and colonies languifhing and dying the. 
fecond week in AZay, merely for want of honey. 
Therefore the Doctot’s obfervation was very true, 
wiz, if in fpring a ftock is not very rich in honey, 
and much cold weather comes to hinder their works, 
they will be in great danger of being loft. The brood 
encreafing, the old ftore fpent, and none to be got a- 
broad, they all perifh together. Therefore the ftocks 
that are fulleft of Bees without a fufficient. ftore, are in 
the gréateft danger.* 
' They begin to breed in the upper part of the hive in 
the empty celis, next adjoining to thofe that are filled 
with honey; gracually defcending to the lower parts, alfo 
enlarging the circumference, as the flowers encreafe, 
furnifhing them with greater plenty of ufeful and necef- 
fary materials, till the brood is carried to the .outermoft 
parts of the combs. 
The Doétor tells his readers, the eggs are caft only 
into the middle ce'ls appointed for breeding, while thofe 
round the hive are referved for the honey; nature, or the 
God of nature, having taught thefe creatures, if they 
fhould place their eggs near the outfide of the hive or 
box, fufficient heat would not come to them, to hatch 
and bring them to perfection ; which inconveniency they 
carefully avoid, by laying their eggs clofe to one another, 
near the center of the hive or box. No eggs (as he 
adds) are laid nearer than three inches towards the-top, 
bottom, or fides of hives er boxes; and thus their na- 
tural heat always keeps them warm, raifes them in gra- 
F4 dation, 
* Warder, p. 16 
