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months of greatest honey storage, but on preceding days and months of 

 preparation. Perhaps the suggestion may be made, even that it goes much 

 further back, through long centuries of selective evolution, side by side, of 

 nectar-yielding plants and honey-storing insects, gradually coming into 

 mutually helpful harmony. — William Trelease, University of Illinois. 

 American Bee Journal, January, 1920. 



Fig. 110. Filaree or pin clover. 



