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Fig. 2.— Rocky Mountain Bee Plant. 



Thus these plants, like the Echinops, two as promising species as we 

 could hope to find, promise little in the way of special planting exclusively 

 for honey. The expense and labor, the doubt of growing a crop, even 

 though we ijlaiit, the chance that the season may not be propitious, and 

 so there be little or no nectar secreted, even though the plants do grow 

 and bloom, all this makes the prospects for profit in such planting not 

 encouraging. 



MELISSA. 



The Melissa is an annual. We planted it for two successive years. It 

 did well, blossomed freely, and was visited very generally by the bees. 

 It grows well on both sand and clay, and by sowing early will commence 



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