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tanea pumila), is an excellent honey plant in the Caro- 
linas. 
The horse mint (Fig. 153), Monarda aristata, is sending 
the bees loaded to their hives with its peculiar aromatic 
nectar, This, with the buckthorn, yields honey into June. 
Fic. 153. 
Horse Mint, 
This plant often covers acres in Wisconsin and Minnesota. 
Mr. Freeborn, of Wisconsin, has often secured a large 
harvest from this plant when all else failed. 
The saw palmetto, Sable serulata, forms a dense growth 
and makes clearing the land no small expense in Florida. 
