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MANUAL OF THE APIARY. 

 JUNE PLANTS. 



With June comes the incomparable white or Dutch clover, 

 Trifolium repens (Fig. 80), whose chaste and modest bloom 

 betokens the beautiful, luscious and unrivalled sweets which 



Fig. 



-White or Dutch, Clover. 



are hidden in its corolla tube. Also its sister, Alsike or 

 Swedish, Trifolium, hyhrida (Fig 81), which seems to resemble 

 both the white and red clover. It is a stronger grower than 

 the white, and has a whitish blossom tinged with pink. This 

 forms excellent pasture and hay for cattle, sheep, etc., and 

 may well be sown by the apiarist. It will often pay apiarists 

 to furnish neighboring farmers with seed as an inducement to 

 grow this par excellent honey plant. Like white clover, it 

 blooms all through June into July. Both of these should 

 be sown ea'rly in spring with timothy,, five or six pounds of 

 seed to the acre, in the same manner that red cjover seed is 

 sown. 



Sweet clover, yellow and white, Melilotus officinalis (Fig. 

 82), and Melilotus alba, are well named. They bloom from 

 the middle of June to the first of October. Their perfume 

 scents the air for long distances, and the hum of bees that 

 throng their flowers is like music to the apiarist's ear. The 

 honey, too, is just exquisite. These clovers are biennial, not 



