The reformed Common-wealth of bees. Presented in severall letters and observations to Sammuel Hartlib Esq. With The reformed Virginian silk-worm. Containing many excellent and choice secrets, experiments, and discoveries for attaining of national and private profits and riches.

Some VVriters of Bees extant in English.

THe Feminine Monarchy, or the History of Bees.

Shewing

• Their admirable Nature and Properties;
• Their Generation and Colonies;
• Their Government, Loyalty, Art, Industry;
• Enemies, Wars, Magnanimity, &c.

Together with the right ordering of them from time to time, and the sweet profit arising thereof.

Written out of Experience by Charles Butler, Magd.

Plat. in Trucul. Act. 2. Sc. 6.

Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem. Oxford, Printed by William Turner, for the Author. 1634.

A Book promised by Henry Gurnay, Gentleman.

Wherein is shewed what great losse cometh to the Common-wealth, by the neglect, carelesness and ignorance in the keeping of more store of Bees, and the right ordering them to most profit, partly shewed in, that some Man having a score of Shepes, and his next neighbour not any, or happily, not three in that Town of an hundred Housholds as many more: and that some Country is very plentiful there∣of, and the next every way as apt for that commodity, yet very scarce thereof; and yet the air and the year equally indifferent to all alike, the common errour being to ascribe a greater luck in these kinds to some men more than to others, which is onely through an unskilfulness therein.

The Ordering of Bees.

Or the tru. History of Managing them from time to time, with their Honey and Wax, shewing their Nature and Breed.

As also what Trees, Plants and Hearbs are good for them, and namely what are hurtful: together with the extraordinary profit a∣rising from them, &c.

Set forth in a Dialogue, resolving all doubts whatsoever. By the late unparallell'd experience, of JOHN LEVETS, Gent. London, Printed by Thom. Harper, for John Harison, 1634.

A Treatise concerning the right use and ordering of Bees.

Newly made and set forth, according to the Authors own experi∣ence: (which by any heretofore hath not been done)

By Edmund Southern Gent.

Imprinted at London by Thomas Orwin, for Thomas Wood∣cock, dwelling in Pauls Church-yard, at the sign of the black Bear. 1593.

A Discourse or History of Bees.

Shewing their Nature and Vsage, and the great profit of them.

Written by Richard Remnant.

London, Printed by Robert Young, for Thomas Slater, dwel∣ling in Duck-lane at the white Swan. 1637.

FINIS.