238 MANUAL OP THE APIARr. . 



cannot always rightly estimate by appearances alone. It is a 

 very valuable plant to be scattered in waste places. 



That beautiful and valuable honey plant, from Minnesota, 

 Colorado, and the Rocky Mountains, cleome, or the Rocky 

 Mountain bee-plant, Cleome integrifolia (Fig, 96), if self- 

 sown, or sown early in spring, blooms by the middle of July, 

 and lasts for long weeks. Nor can anything be more gay 

 than these brilliant flowers, alive with bees all through the 

 long fall. This should be planted in fall or spring, in drills 

 two feet apart, the plants six inches apart in the drills. The 

 seeds, which grow in pods, are very numerous, and are said 

 to be valuable for chickens. Now, too, commence to bloom 

 the numerous Eupatoriums, or bonesets, or thoroughworts 



Tig. H.—Figwort. 



(Fig. 97), which fill the marshes of our country, and the hives 

 as well, with their rich golden nectar — precursors of that pro- 

 fusion of bloom of this composite order, whose many species 

 are even now budding in preparation for the sea of flowers 

 which will deck the marsh-lands of August and September. 

 Wild bergamot, too, Monarda fisticlosa, which, like the 

 thistles, is of importance to the apiarist, blooms in July. 



The little shrub of our marshes, appropriately named but- 

 ton-bush, Cephalanthus occidentalis, (Fig. 95), also shares 

 the attention of the bees with the linden ; while apiarists 



