346 May Honey Plants. 
kinds of trees, the pistillate and the staminate, thronged 
with bees the past season. The willow, too, from its ele- 
gant form and silvery foliage, is one of our finest shade 
trees. It grows everywhere in the United States. 
Fic. 148. 
Sugar Maple, 
In the south of Michigan, and thence southward to Ken- 
tucky, and even beyond, the Judas tree, or red-bud, Cercis 
Canadensis (Fig. 147), is not only worthy of cultivation as: 
a honey plant, but is also very attractive, and well deserv- 
