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excellent for pasture and ‘for green manuring. The Par- 
tridge pea, Cassia chameaecrista (Fig. 168), furnishes abun- 
dant nectar, and like the cow pea of the South has extra 
floral as well as floral glands. Lupine, Lupinus perennis, 
and gill or ground ivy, Nepeta glechoma, commenced to 
Fic. 168. 
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blossom in May and now are fully out. This last isa mint, 
anear relative of catnip. I find there are foreign mints 
which are excellent honey-plants, and very likely would 
pay well to sow in waste places. The matrimony vine, 
Lycium vulgare, and the beautiful honey locust, Gleditschia 
triacanthos ce 169), are now full of life, as the bees come 
and go full-loaded with nectar. In California, the fig- 
wort, Scrophularia Californica, contributes to the honey 
