548 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
Corn — red and white. 
Dandelion — yellow. 
Fruit trees — pink and white. 
Golden rod — yellow. 
Gooseberry — yellow. 
Grape — greenish white. 
Horehound — white. 
Iron-weed — purple. 
Mignonette — yellowish white. 
Maple — red and white. 
Mustard — yellow. 
Oxeye daisy — white. 
Raspberry — yellowish white. 
Red clover — red or pink. 
Strawberry — white. 
Smartweed — pink. 
Silk, or milkweed — purple to white. 
Sweet clover — white. 
Turnip — yellow. 
Tulip-tree — yellowish white. 
Virginia creeper — greenish white. 
Willow — purple or white. 
Wild plum — white. 
White clover — white. 
Here we have a list of thirty-two of the principal bee-plants of the country, 
I think any apiarist who has given careful attention to the forage plants of his 
bees will admit that nine tenths of the honey that his bees collect is gathered 
from the plants enumerated above; and yet a large proportion of them are white. 
Indeed, I think in a large portion of our country it is safe to say that three fourths 
of the honey is ga'^hered from three species of plants — buckwheat,' basswood, 
and white clover; all of which have white flowers. Many of the plants named 
above have very inconspicuous flowers, of which I may name maple, raspberry, 
grape, Virginia creeper, currant, gooseberry, sweet clover, and corn. If it were 
the bright colors alone that attracted bees to flowers, some of these would never 
receive the visits of a single honey gathering insect. But observation proves that 
the inconspicuous flowers are often thronged by insects to the neglect ot more 
showy ones. As an illustration, a vine of Virginia creeper that clambers over 
my house was literally swarming with bees during the past summer, when sun- 
flowers, roses, and hollyhocks, in its immediate vicinity were entirely neglected. 
The "yellow patches" of sunflowers could readily be seen for half a mile, 
while the minute blossoms of the ampelopsis could scarcely be distinguished at 
the distance of a rod, I also observed a similar fact on a patch of mixed clover, 
— consisting of red, Alsike and white — which was constantly visited by bees dur- 
