The Cow Pea and Cotton. 



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supply. Our brothers of the South reap a rich harvest 

 from the great staple, cotton, Gossypium herbaceum (Fig. 

 170), which commences to bloom early in June, and 



Fig. 170. 



Cotton, 



remains in blossom even to October. This belongs to the 

 same family — Mallow — as the hollyhock, and like it blooms 

 and fruits through the season. 



The cow pea (Fig. 143) is not only good for bees, but 

 for feed, and to enrich the .~oil. The stone-crop, Sedum 

 pulchellum, is another valuable honey plant of the South. 

 In June the magnolias (Fig. 171) — there are several spe- 

 cies in the South — are in bloom. In many parts they com- 

 mence to blossom in May. One of the finest of these is 

 the Magnolia glauca (Fig. 171). One would suspect at 

 once that it was a near relative of the tulip tree. 



