340 Important Honey Plants. 
names of shrubs being enclosed in a parenthesis. The date 
of the commencement of bloom is, of course, not invaria- 
ble. The one appended, in case of plants which grow in 
our State, is about average for Central Michigan. Those 
plants whose names appear in small capitals yield very 
superior honey. Those with (@) are useful for other pur- 
poses than honey secretion. All but those with a * are 
native or very common in Michigan. Those written in the 
plural refer to more than one species. Those followed by 
a‘ are very numerous in species. Of course I have not 
named all, as that would include some hundreds which have 
been observed at the college, taking nearly all of the two 
great orders, Composite and Rosacez. I have only aimed 
to give the most important, omitting many foreign plants 
of notoriety, as I have had no personal knowledge of them. 
