366 Basswood as a Honey Plant. 
JULY PLANTS. 
Early in -this month opens the far-famed basswood or 
linden, Tilia Americana (Fig. 172), which for the profusion 
Fic. 171. 
Magnolia, 
and quality of its honey has no superior. Mr. Doolittle 
got 66 pounds of honey from this source by a single col- 
