AMERICAN HONEY PLANTS 



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has a brilliant bloom, in clusters, a beautiful sight. * * * The honey 

 is of fine flavor, water white. You can see the nectar wave in the 

 flower cup when you shake it. The flow sometiines lasts a month. It 

 will stand a light frost, but not a heavy one. Our hot east winds are 

 very hard on it, as they scorch the trees." 



EUPATORIUM, see Boneset. 



EUPHORBIA, see Snow-On-the-Mountain, also Poinsettia. 



FALSE INDIGO (Amorpha fruticosa). 



False indigo is a tall shrub common to low lands along streams froi 



Figwort, or Simpson honey plant. 



Pennsplvania west to the plains. It grows in thickets and is very attrac- 

 tive to the bees. It is of special importance in Nebraska and Kansas. In 

 the Arkansas Valley beekeepers report that bees get both nectar and pol- 

 len in considerable quantity, though it is seldom mentioned as a source of 



