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the attention of the bees with the linden ; while apiarists of 

 the South find sourwood, or sorrel tree (Oxydendrum arboreum), 

 (Fig. 244), a valuable honey-tree. It yields much very excel- 

 lent honey. The honey is not quite as light-colored as sage, 

 clover and basswood. It is slow to granulate. This plant is 

 grown at the Michigan Agricultural College, but it is not 



Fig. 245. 



Mountain LaureL — From Department of Agriculture 



hardy, as it kills back nearly every winter. It belongs to the 

 Heath family, which includes the far-famed heather-bloom of 

 England. It also includes our whortleberry, cranberry, blue- 

 berry, and one plant which has no enviable reputation, as 

 furnishing honey which is very poisonous, even fatal to those 

 who eat, the mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia), (Fig. 245). 

 There is good reason to question these reports as to poisonous 



