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malts, Vinca, Ageratiim, Sisi/rinchkim, the smaller Lobelias, 

 Solanum Dulcamara, Agapanlhus lonbeUafus, and most 

 probably other l)lue lilies, Hydrangea hortensis, Tradescantia 

 Virginica, etc. 



WHITE. 



Among white flowers our native and garden varieties of 

 Clematis are visited l\y numerous honey bees which lick the 

 juices from the filaments and anthers, as the flowers have no 

 nectaries. Clethra, white, is visited by many large size 

 insects attracted by its fragrance as well as nectar, such as 

 bumble bees, honey bees, wasps, hornets, ichneumons, drone 

 flies, l)utterflies (yellow, black, or brown-eyed, etc.), hum- 

 ming-bird moths and other moths, and the ambush bug, etc. 

 Of this promiscuous crowd the l)ees are always very umch 

 in evidence. Notwithstanding the attractions of this sweet 

 flower, the purple Asclepias, the Canada Thistle, the crim- 

 son-purple Burdock, and the pale green flowered Rhus 

 copalh'na attract just as well both kinds of bees, and about 

 the same mixed assembly. 



Ligustrum, the common privet, also white, with small 

 tul)ular flowers, is visited while the day lasts and until the 

 last corolla falls to the ground, by both kinds of bees and 

 numerous butterflies and drone flies. Melilotiis alba, a 

 small, sweet-scented flower of the Leguminosm, is much 

 liked by bumble bees. One will rarely miss finding numer- 

 ous heavy-bodied bees clinging to the slender pea-shaped 

 flowers ; the same may be said as to Hydrangea paniculata, 

 Cephalanthiis, Deutzia, etc. ; on the other hand no bees ever 

 visit Sambucus Canadensis, PhiJadelp)hus inodorus, Solanum 

 tuberosum, or Exochorda, all very showy white flowers, 

 having no nectar, but a plenty of pollen. Our white flowered 

 cherry trees, pear, quince, and apple trees, the latter more 

 or less tinged with crimson, are visited by throngs of honey 

 bees and many bumble bees, which aid greatly in fertilizing 

 the flowers, also Prenanthes, CepJiaJanthus, Hydrangea pa- 



