262 May Plants. 



The barberry, too, Berheris vulgaris (Fig. 130), comes after 

 fruit blossoms, and is thronged with bees in search of nectar 



Fig. 129. Fig. 130. 



Barberrvy 



Chinese Wistaria, 



in spring, as with children in winter, in quest of the beautiful 

 scarlet berries, so pleasingly tart. 



In California, the sumac, the horehound, the famous black 

 sage (Fig. 131), Avdibertia Palmeri, or more correctly 

 Treehostema lanatum, (there are two other species less common,) 

 with its most beautiful and delicious honey, and the more 

 common, and hardly less excellent white sage, Avdibertia 

 polystachia, (Fig. 132), keep the bees roaring with activity, 

 in favorable seasons, from Acril even unto June. 



