348 The California Sages. 
The barberry, too, Berberis vulgaris (Fig. 150), comes 
after fruit blossoms, and is thronged with bees in search of 
nectar in spring, as with children in winter, in quest of 
the beautiful scarlet berries, so pleasingly tart. . 
In California, the sumac, the horehound, the famous 
black sage (Fig. 151), Audibertia Palmeri, or more cor- 
Fic. 150. Fie 150. 
Barberry. 
Chinese Wistaria, 
rectly Trechostema lanatum (there are two other species 
less common), with its most beautiful and delicious honey, 
and the more common, and hardly less. excellent, white 
sage, Audibertia polystachia (Fig. 152), keep the bees 
roaring with activity, in favorable seasons, from April 
even unto June. 
In the South, as I learn from that able apiarist, Dr. J. 
H. P. Brown, they are no less favored. The Japan privet 
the varnish tree, the acacia, the black gum and the per- 
