June 24, 1777

Posted by sydney on Jun 24th, 1777

Kidney-beans look miserably.   A poor cold solstice for tender plants.  Wheat looks yellow.  My bees when swarming settle every year on the boughs of the Balm of Gilead fir.  Yesterday they settled at first in two swarms, which soon coalesced into one.  To a thinking mind few phenomena  are more striking than the clustering of bees on some bough where they remain in order, as it were, to be ready for hiving:

…”arbore summa

Confluere, & lentis uvam demittere ramis.”

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  1. Tann Says:

    arbore summa confluere, et lentis uvam demittere ramis…

    to flow together from the tree-top, and from the tender branches to drop in a grape-like cluster…

    Vergil, “Georgics”

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