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Table V. — List of the more important honey plants in Massachusetts Cont'd. 



Name. 



Times 

 reported. 



Fruit bloom (includes pear (Pi/rus spp.), apple, cherry, peach, plum (Prunus spp.), etc... 387 



Linden or basswood ( Tiha spp. ) 160 



Buckwheat ( Fagopyru m spp. ) 



Raspberry (Rubus spp.).. 

 Blackberry [Rubus spp.). 



Sumac {Rhus pp.) 



Locust a (Eobinia spp. ) 



Maple (Acer spp. ) 



Clethra (Clethra alnifolia) . 



Does not yield every year; " Once in three years," one bee keeper says. 



(ill 



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LIST OF PLANTS REPORTED RELATIVELY FEW TIMES. 



(Reported from one to fifteen times.) 



Alder (Alnus spp.). 



Arnica, white flowering (Arnica Mon- 

 tana). 



Barberry (Berber is spp.). 



Blueberry (Yaccinium spp.). 



Burdock (Arctium lappa). 



Buttercups (Ranunculus spp.). 



Button bush (Cephalanthus occiden- 

 talis ) . 



Cherry, wild (Prunus spp.). 



Chestnut (Castanea dentata (marsh)). 



Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis). 



Cowpeas (Vigna catjang). 



Cranberry (Yaccinium spp.). 



Cucumber, cultivated (Cucumis spp.). 



Cucumber, wild (Ylicrampelis lobata). 



Dandelion (Taraxacum spp.). 



Elderberry (Samoucus spp.). 



Elm (Ulmus spp.). 



Gentian, fringed (Gentiana crinita). 



Geranium, wild (Geranium spp.). 



Gill-over-the-ground (Glccoma hed- 

 eracea ) . 



Gooseberry, wild and cultivated (Ribes 

 spp. ) . 



Hickory (Hicoria spp.). 

 Honeysuckle, Tartarian a (Lonicera 



tatarica). 

 Horse chestnut (.Esculus spp.). 

 Huckleberry (Gaylussacia spp.). 

 Knotweed (Polygonum spp.). 

 Milkweed (Asclepias spp.). 

 Mints, catnip, etc. (Mentha spp.). 

 Mustards, wild (Brassica spp.). 

 New Jersey tea (Ceanothus amcri- 



canus). 

 Radish (Raphanus spp.). 

 Shad bush, wild (Amelanchicr botry- 



apium). 

 Skunk cabbage (Spathyema fcetida). 

 Strawberry, wild and cultivated 



(Fragaria spp.). 

 Sunflowers (Ilclianthus spp.). 

 Syringa ( Ph iladelph us spp. ) . 

 Thyme b ( Tliym us serpyllum ) . 

 Viburnum (Viburnum spp.). 

 Willow (Sali.r spp.). 

 Witch-hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) . 



PERIODS OF NECTAR SECRETIONS IN DIFFERENT LOCALITIES. 



Through the courtesy of several bee keepers the writer is able to 

 present with considerable detail the periods of nectar secretion of 



° Reported of importance and very productive in Hampshire County. 



& Jackson, Joseph J. 1894. Through Glade and Mead. Jackson (p. 293) 

 lists it for Worcester County, it was also reported to the writer three times 

 from Berkshire Gouuty. 



