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long avenues of eucalyptus, the graceful peppers, and the 

 incomparable date-palms. 



Sow and encourage the sowing of alsike clover and silver- 

 leaf or Japanese buckwheat in your neighborhood. Be sure 

 that j'our wife, children, and bees can often repair to a large 

 bed of the new giant or grandiflora mignonettte, and remem- 

 ber that it, with figwort, spider-plant, Rocky Mountain bee- 

 plant, and borage, bloom till frost. Study the bee-plants of 

 your region, and then study the foregoing table, and provide 

 for a succession, remembering that the mustards, rape and 

 buckwheat may be made to bloom almost at pleasure, by sow- 

 ing at the proper time. Do not forget that borage and the 

 mustards seem comparatively indifferent to wet weather. Be 

 sure that all waste-places are stocked with motherwort, catnip, 

 pleurisy-root, figwort, cleome, viper's-bugloss, asters, etc. 



The foregoing dates, unless specially mentioned, are only 

 correct for Michigan, northern Ohio, and similar latitudes, 

 and for more Southern latitudes must be varied, which, by 

 comparison of a few, as the fruit-trees, becomes no difficult 

 matter. 



