The Partridge Pea, 



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excellent for pasture and for green manuring. The Par- 

 tridge pea, Cassia chamacrista (Fig. 168), furnishes abun- 

 dant nectar, and like the cow pea of the South has extra 

 floral as well as floral glands. Lupine, Lupinus perennis, 

 and gill or ground ivy, Nepeta glechoma, commenced to 



Fig. 168. 



Partridge Pea, 



blossom in May arvd now are fully out. This last is a mint, 

 a near relative of catnip. I find there are foreign mints 

 which are excellent honey-plants, and very likely would 

 pay well to sow in waste places. The matrimony vine, 

 Lycium vulgare, and the beautiful honey locust, Gleditschia 

 triacanthos (Fig. 169), are now full of life, as the bees come 

 and go full-loaded with nectar. In California, the fig- 

 wort, Scrophularia Californica, contributes to the honey 



