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uncut in spring will bloom in June- — so delectable for the 

 table, and so elegant for trimming table meats and for ban- 

 quets in autumn, come now to offer their nectarian gifts. 



AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER PLANTS. 



The cultivated buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum, (Fig. 

 98), usually blooms in August, as it is sown the first of July 

 — three pecks per acre is the amount to sow — but by sowing 

 the first of June, it may be made to bloom the middle of 



Pig. 98.— Buckwheat. 



July, when there is generally, in most localities, an absence 

 of nectar-secreting flowers. The honey is inferior in color 

 and flavor, though some people prefer this to all other honey. 

 The silver-leaf buckwheat blooms longer, has more numerous 

 flowers, and thus yields more grain than the common variety. 

 Now, too, come the numerous golden-rods. The species of 

 this genus, Solidago (Fig. 99), in the Eastern United States, 

 number nearly two-score, and occupy all kinds of soils, and 

 are at home on upland, prairie and morass. They yield 

 abundantly of rich, golden honey, with flavor that is unsurpassed 

 by any other. Fortunate the apiarist who can boast of a 

 thicket of Sol'ulagoes in his locality. 



