June 7, 1777

Posted by sydney on Jun 7th, 1777

The bees gather earnestly from the flowers of the buck-thorn.  Tho’ we are exempt from chafers this season round this district; yet between Winchester & Southampton they swarm so as to devour everything; the country stinks of them.

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