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Busli or Rock Honeysuckle. 



I send a flower on which my bees work 

 some. It grows in clumps and anywhere 

 from 12 to 15 inches high. It grows on 

 a ledge, and also around some old rotten 

 logs where there was once a mill-yard. 



Bradford, Vt., July 11. H. M. H. 



Answek. — This is a member of the 

 honeysuckle family, having the scien- 

 tific name DiervUla triflda, and known 

 by the common names "bush honey- 

 suckle" or " rock honeysuckle." It has 

 a very near relative in the Weigela, a 

 showy, pink-flowered shrub of our lawns. 



Its proper home is in cool, rocky hill- 

 sides, in the shade of larger bushes and 

 trees. It probably has the same honey- 

 producing qualities that the proper 

 honeysuckles {honicera) have, evidenced 

 by their common name. 



"Woodsage— So-w Tliistle. 



I send two plants to be named. One 

 is a honey-plant, growing from one to 

 two feet high, with branched stems. 

 The other, some say, is the Canada 

 thistle. It grows about t»^o feet high. 



R T R 



Sugar Lake, Mo., July 22. 



Answer. — No. 1, the honey-plant, has 

 the common names of woodsage and 

 American germander {Teucrium Cana- 

 dense), and belongs to the mint family. 

 It grows abundantly in rather low 

 grounds, and remains in bloom for a 

 long time. It is a perennial plant. 



No. 2 is not the Canada thistle, but a 

 perfectly harmless member of the same 

 family (composite), and known by the 

 common name of "sow thistle" (Louchus 

 aspcr) — an annual weed of gardens and 

 roadsides. 



A Boneset RelatiTC. 



I send a sample of a weed which is 

 plentiful in this locality. It is a bien- 

 nial, blooming but little the first year. 

 Its bloom resembles that of boneset, the 

 stalk is somewhat red, commences bloom- 

 ing about the middle of August, and 

 blooms until frost. It sends up one 

 stalk the first year, but sends up from 

 two to six the next ; it branches almost 

 from the ground, and grows from two to 

 five feet high. It is one of the best, if 

 not the best, honey-plants we have some 

 seasons. Bees gather large quantities 

 of very light honey from it — almost 

 white. It will grow on almost any kind 

 of soil. We have it on the roadside, in 

 vacant lots, on pasture-land, and on old, 

 worn-out land, but it grows more pro- 

 ■fusely on newly-cleared lands. It is 

 called by some "August flower." 



Cherry, Ky., July 24. J. C. H. 



Answer. — This plant is known botan- 

 ically as Eupatorium serolinum, having, 

 so far as I know, no generally prevalent 



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