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The former treats of systematic, the latter of physiological 
botany, 
PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS. 
It will pay well for the apiarist to decorate his grounds 
with soft and silver maples, for their beauty and early 
bloom. If his soil isrich, sugar maples and lindens may 
well serve a similar purpose. Indeed, every apiarist should 
strive to have others plant the linden. No tree is so worthy 
a place by the roadside. The Judas and tulip trees, both 
North and South, may well be made to ornament his home. 
For vines, obtain the wistarias, where they are hardy. 
Sow and encourage the sowing of Alsike clover and 
silver-leaf or Japanese buckwheat in your neighborhood. 
Be sure that your wife, children, and bees can often repair 
to a large bed of the new giant or grandiflora mignonette, 
and remember that it, with figwort, spider plant, Rocky 
Mountain bee plant, and borage, blooms till frost. Study 
the bee plants of your region, and then study the above 
table, and provide for a succession, remembering that the 
mustards, rape and buckwheat may be made.to bloom 
almost at pleasure, by sowing at the proper time. Do not 
forget that borage and the mustards seem comparatively 
indifferent to wet weather. Be sure that all waste places 
are stocked with motherwort, catnip, pleurisy root, figwort, 
cleome, viper’s bugloss, asters, etc. 
The above dates, unless specially mentioned, are only 
correct for Michigan, Northern Ohio, and similar latitudes, 
and for more southern latitudes must be varied, which, by 
comparison of a few, as the fruit trees, becomes no difficult 
matter. 
