one to hys worke, by his flying aboute in the Hiue. ¶ What kinde of Bees are beste, and rather to be chosen. Cap.ix. In this point, & for true knowledge of these, doth _M. Varro_ discribe those Bées to be best, which be small of body, and diuerse and round, bycause they be earnest in labour, and make a thinne honny, and better endure labour, and gather their honny on hilles, but the worser Bées gather their honny of the garden floures onlye, whiche be somewhat long of bodye, lyke to waspes. _Virgil_ doth especially commend the small Bées, beyng somwhat long, light, and clenly in their businesse, and glistering to golde. So that the greater and rounder Bée, is discommended of all writers. Although the fierce Bées are very ill, yet is their yrefulnesse, a note of the better Bées, whiche may easily be appeased, by the daylye haunting among them, for if the kepers do often handle the Hyues, then do they become gentle in a short time. The Bées also endure if they be diligently loked vnto, for the space of ten yeares, and beyonde this age no swarme can passe, althoughe the kéepers supplye the Hyues yearelye with yong Bées, in the steade of the olde deade, for in the tenth yere, in a manner, of the generall death of them, the vniuersall kinde of the whole Hyue is then consumed. And therefore, that thys maye not happen throughe all the Hyues in that place you must alwayes increase your Hyues with yong Bées, which diligently Hyue in the springtime, or beginning of Sommer, when as the swarmes be first and newe thrust forth of the Hiues, and so maye the number of your Hiues be encreased. Agayne some wryte, that in the Countrey of _Pontus_, the beste Bées bée white, bycause they gyue theyr yéelde of Honnye twyce in a moneth. And _Gulihelmus de couchis_ affirmeth the beste Bées to be aboute _Thermodoon_ in _Capadocia_, abyding in the Earthe, for that these doe buylde and make a tryple yéelde of waxe, and giue also aboundaunce of Honny.