The feminin' monarchi', or the histori' of bee's. Shewing their admirable natur', and propertis; their generation and colonis; their government, loyalti, art, industri; enimi's, wars, magnanimiti, etc. Together with the right ordering of them from tim' to tim': and the sweet' profit arising ther'of / Written out of Experienc( by Charles Butler.

  • Butler, Charles, -1647.
Date:
M.DC.XXXIV
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Credit: The feminin' monarchi', or the histori' of bee's. Shewing their admirable natur', and propertis; their generation and colonis; their government, loyalti, art, industri; enimi's, wars, magnanimiti, etc. Together with the right ordering of them from tim' to tim': and the sweet' profit arising ther'of / Written out of Experienc( by Charles Butler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ■GAP. II. OF DE BEGARDEN, AND SEATS FOR VS HIV'S. ^Or your Bee-garden, firft eoof from Plat n/g ' your horn*, dat de Bee's may bee in figt and hearing; becaus of fwarming, figrihg, or oder fuddain hap,wer'in dey may need£your prefent of yJV hngi ret] /(itc in a Bee-?arden, de r n 4.«^, ..V. 4W-V. ;uui (HUUIl b'e»t*at ^P* Wil* de flails ar few, your Garden of Herbs and band. Flouers wil ferv.Hortu coromwenufejm maxtme alvearia & apes convcnittnt. But wen dey ar grown to a fufficient num¬ ber, dey reqir' a fqar* green1 Plat, fitted for de purpof'. v• tt» 8. 2 2 See it bee faf‘,and fur £Iy fenced, not oncly from all Cat* 'l>lsci tel, ( wi€,ifdey break in, may qikly fpoyl bof* de Bee's and 'from cat tel and. demfclvs ) and fpecially from Swin^i ( wle, by rubbing a- wmdci. _gainft de Hiv's, and tearing de hackles in a wantonnes, ar mofPaptto overtrowde llaIls)butalfo fromde violcnc'of de windcsdat wen de Beecs cram laden and weary homc, dey may fettle qicrly. v.n.5. 3 De Nor-t fencc of your Garden /mid* bee cloP and hig, Ve Norf and dat de cold* wind* of dat coafl, ( wi-e, in de Spring wro!d* Eafl fence/ bee as apt to kil de Bee*s, as to call dem doun in de fetling) field foe lug. may bee altogeder kept from dera. And der‘fotc, if it may bee, fetyour B$*sondeSout fid*ofyour hous. De Eaft fcnc' alfo wrold* bee good and big, to keep' from de Bee's as wcldefun,asde wind*. For de fun rifing doo(ff 4 oft-tim*$ til detn frort*. wen deayeris colder dan dey can Ve Scut and encjurc. andde Eafl-wind*beeingcoId* and iarp is very un- .Wnd‘fbrd«m. tlnerf«hig Butin nowif£ letde plac£bffs /adowed from de Sou f x* re hid‘ ie fpn : for dat dro*t not on*ly dry' de Hiv‘s, and relee v' de Sun from ie in de Winter and Spring ; but alfocaufef dem to 222:-- fwa’rm in Summer;if it bee not extrem*hot and driy*. v. - ' Nor