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there are several species in the South — are in bloom. In many 

 parts they commence to blossom in May. One of the finest of 

 these is the Magnolia glauca (Fig-. 237). One would suspect at 

 once that it was a near relative of the tulip tree. This is also 

 common in Southern California. 



Fig. 236. 



Cotton. — Original, 



JOI.Y PLANTS. 



Early in this month opens the far-famed basswood or lin- 

 den (Tilia Americana), (Fig. 238), which, for the profusion and 

 quality of its honey, has no superior. Mr. Doolittle got 66 

 pounds of linden honey from a single colony in three days. It 

 is what has given Wisconsin its proud place as a bee-section. 

 There is rarely a year that it does not give us some of its 

 incomparable nectar. It has been estimated that one linden 

 tree would furnish, in a favorable year, fifty pounds of honey. 



