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there are several species in the South— are in bloom. In many 

 parts they commence to blossom in May. One of the finest of 

 these is the Magnolia glauca (Fig. 237). One would suspect at 

 once that it was a near relative of the tulip tree. This is also 

 common in Southern California. 



Fig. 236. 



Cotton. — Original. 



JULY PLANTS. 



Early in this month opens the far-famed basswood or lin- 

 den (Tilia Americana), (Fig. 238), which, for the profusion and 

 quality of its honey, has no superior. Mr. Doolittle got 66 

 pounds of linden honey from a single colony in three days. It 

 is what has given Wisconsin its proud place as a bee-section. 

 There is rarely a year that it does not give us some of its 

 incomparable nectar. It has been estimated that one linden 

 tree would furnish, in a favorable year, fifty pounds of honey. 



