A Profitable Instruction of the Perfite Ordering of Bees: With the Maruellous Nature, Propertie, and Gouernemente of Them: and the Necessarie Vses Both of Their Honie and Waxe, Seruing Diuersly, as Well in Inward as Outward Causes: Gathered Out of the Best WritersHill, Thomas
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A Profitable Instruction of the Perfite Ordering of Bees: With the Maruellous Nature, Propertie, and Gouernemente of Them: and the Necessarie Vses Both of Their Honie and Waxe, Seruing Diuersly, as Well in Inward as Outward Causes: Gathered Out of the Best Writers
Hill, Thomas
Bee culture -- Early works to 1800; Bees -- Early works to 1800
Of the vnperfit Bees, which men properly name cap.iiij.
drone Bees.
Whether the Bees draw breath, or haue any bloud in cap.v.
them.
Of the great vtilitie and profit of the Bees vnto cap.vj.
mans vse.
Of the care and diligence of the Bees. cap.vij.
Of the maruellous gouernement of the King of honie cap.viij.
Bees, and of the obedience which they vse to hym.
What kind of Bees be best, and rather to be cap.ix.
chosen.
Where the Hiues of Bees ought especially to be cap.x.
placed.
What things Bees do chiefly abhorre, and greatly cap.xj.
hate.
By what signes men may knowe when the honie Bees cap.xij.
are diseased, and how men may cure them.
What maner of person the keper of the Bees ought cap.xiij.
to be.
By what meanes the swarme come forth, may be cap.xiiij.
preserued from flying away.
Of the Bees new settled in a swarme togither, and cap.xv.
taken and recouered againe.
Which are the best and fittest hyues for the honie cap.xvj.
Bees.
Of the cleanlinesse and sweetenesse of the keeper cap.xvij.
of Bees, and howe hiues ought to be fenced about,
and prepared within.
How Bees lacking honie may be fed in that present cap.xviij.
neede.
How the dead Bees may be restored to life againe. cap.xix.
Of the battell that Bees sometime haue within cap.xx.
themselues.
How Bees lost, may be recouered and found againe. cap.xxj.
That the Bees sting no person comming neere to cap.xxij.
their hiues.
When and how the hiues ought to be gelded. cap.xxiij.
What the honie is, and how from the hiues the same cap.xxiiij.
may be prepared to vse.
Which honie is accounted best. cap.xxv.
Of the venomous honie, and of the wonderful hony cap.xxvj.
of Creta.
Of the miraculous worthinesse of honie. cap.xxvij.
How profitable the vse of honie is in medicine. cap.xxviij.
Of the drinke of hony whiche they call the Mulse cap.xxix.
water, or sweete water of the Romaines.
Of the drinke _Oenomel_, which is made of pure cap.xxx.
wine & hony.
Of the singular water of hony gotten by order of cap.xxxj.
distillation.
Another maner of distilling the hony more at large cap.xxxij.
taught.
The maner of distilling a water of hony named the cap.xxxiij.
Quintessence.
The maner of drawing and making waxe of the cap.xxxiiij.
combes.
What waxe is best allowed, &c. cap.xxxv.
Of the great commoditie and benefite of waxe in cap.xxxvj.
medicines.
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