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plants, with buckwheat, the mints, borag-e and mignonette, 

 are specially interesting, as they cover, or may be made to 

 cover, the honey-dearth from about July 20th to August 20th. 



The mustards may be planted in drills about eight inches 

 apart, any time from May 1st to July ISth. Four quarts will 

 plant an acre. 



In this month (though I have known it to bloom in Michi- 

 gan in May, while South it blossoms in April) blooms the 



Fig. 231. 



tulip-tree (Liriodendron tulipifera), (Fig. 230) — often called 

 poplar in the South, which is not only an excellent honey- 

 producer, but is one of our most stately and admirable shade- 

 trees. It is also very valuable for its lumber, which is known 

 as whitewood. It would be of more worth did it not shrink so 

 much. Dr. Brown, of Georgia, says this is the great depend- 

 ence — the basswood of the South. He says that along rivers 

 especially the bloom is so prolonged, being earlier on the up- 

 lands, that the harvest is long as bountiful. Now bloom the 

 sumacs, though one species blooms in May, the wild plum, the 

 raspberries, whose nectar is unsurpassed in color and flavor, 

 and the blackberry. The raspberry is specially to be praised. 



