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In the following table will be found a list of valuable honey 

 plants. Those in the first column are annual, biennial or 

 perennial ; the annual being enclosed in a parenthesis thus: ( ); 

 the biennial enclosed in brackets thus: [] ; while those in the 

 second column are shrubs or trees ; the names of shrubs 

 being enclosed in a parenthesis. The date of commence- 

 ment of bloom is, of course, not invariable. The one appended, 

 in case of plants which grow in our State, is about average 

 for Central Michigan. Those plants whose names appear in 

 small capitals yield very superior honey. Those with (a) are 

 useful for other -purposes than honey secretion. All biit those 

 with a * are native or very common in Michigan. Those written 

 in the plural refer to more than one species. Those followed 

 by a t are very numerous in species. Of course I have not 

 named all, as that would include some hundreds which have 

 been observed at the college, taking nearly all of the two great 

 orders Compositse and Rosaceae. I have only aimed to give 

 the most important, omitting many foreign plants of notoriety, 

 as I have had- no personal knowledge of them: 



