OR, MANUAI, OF THB APIARY. 



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linden is yielding its precious harvest. Few plants are more 

 desirable to sow in waste-places. Mr. Doolittle says truly, 

 "If any plant will pay to grow solely for honey, it is this 

 one." He is correct in the opinion that none will pay. 



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Motherwort. — Original. 



The silk or milkweed furnishes abundant nectar from 

 June to frost, as there are several species of the genus Asclep- 

 ias, which is wide-spread in our country. Indeed, pleurisy- 

 root or butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) is the bee-plant 

 that Mr. Heddon has praised so highly. He thinks it one of 



