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New Orleans, La., Sept. 18, 1877. — " I en- 

 close 13 samples of our tall flowers. Nos. 1 

 and 4 bloom from the middle of May till end 

 of July. They fjrow on swamp land and 

 among the heaviest swamp timber. Golden- 

 rod and aster grow botli in swamps and on 

 open land. The latter is our stand-by for 

 winter supply. The rest grow only in 

 swamps, and bloom from Sept. 15 to Nov. 

 15. A swamp running parallel with the 

 Mississippi River from 2 to 40 miles wide 

 contains particularly Nos. 1, 4, 7, 10 and 13. 

 Wet weather prevents bees from getting 

 large amounts of honey from them. This 

 season has been the poorest ever known — 

 not % as much surplus as common— but 

 gave 60 per cent, increase." W. B. Eush. 



1. Cephalantlnis occidentalis ( button- 

 buch); yellow flower, size of white clover; 

 gives amber honey. 



2. Cuphorlia oltissimum. 



3. SoUdago (golden-rod), 50 species east 

 of Mississippi River. 



4. Vitis Mpinnotn. 



5. Piuchea foetida—mavsh flea-bone. 



6. A poor specimen— no leaves. 



7. 3Iikania scandens. 



8. ilfilTcania— climbing bone-set. 



9. Iresine ceosiordes. 



10. Baccharis halimfolia— grounded tree. 



11. Morning glory. 



12. Lythrum li/i earc— loose-sti'ife. 



13. Polygonum.. There are 22 species 

 east of the Mississippi River. 



"Dear Editor:— Enclosed I send you a 

 specimen of a new honey plant, which grows 

 wild in great abundance in this region. My 

 attention was called to it last season, by 

 seeing the bees working on it from morning 

 till evening. It commences to bloom about 

 the middle of July and continues to bloom 

 until frost. There is as much again of the 

 plant growing this season, as there was last 

 year. After the plant commenced to bloom 

 my bees get much of their honey from it. 



"Enclosed I send a communication from 

 Jas. A. Simpson to Oleanings in Dee-Cul- 

 ture, which gives a full and accurate descrip- 

 tion of the plant I refer to. I sent a speci- 

 men to our vState botanist a few weeks since, 

 in order to learn the name of the plant, but 

 as yet have not heard from him. Can you 

 give me its name? 1 do not know how it 

 will do under cultivation, but intend to sow 

 one-half acre in the spring. 



" Bees did not do well in this vicinity dur- 

 ing the spring, owing to wet weather while 

 the fruit trees were in bloom. We had to 

 feed in order to keep them from starving, 

 and those stands which survived became 

 very weak, but revived when the linn came 

 into bloom and made about 50 pounds of 

 surplus honey, on the average, to each stand. 

 There were in this vicinity very few new 

 swarms, and out of 14 stands, I only got 

 four new swarnis. There are a great many 

 bees kept in this county, and they seem to 

 pay well. Yours truly, Wm. Fairall. 



It is scrofalaria nodosa, a large and 

 coarse grower, and not very valuable for 

 honey— the bloom being too scarce to pay 

 for cultivation for bees. 



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