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Basswood as a Honey Plunt. 



JULY PLANTS. 



Early in this month opens the far-famed basswootl < r 

 linden.Tilia Americana (Fig. 172), which for the profusion 



Fig. 171. 



Maffnolia. 



and quahty of its honey has no superior. Mr. Doolittle 

 got 66 pounds of honey from this source by a single col- 



