The Chapman Honey Plant, 



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they are death to any tree. Maples, and even elms In many 

 parts of the United States, may well give place to the 

 linden. 



Fig wort, Scrophularia nodosa (Fig. 173), often called 

 Rattleweed, as the seeds will rattle in the pod, and Carpen- 

 ter's Sqiiai-e, as it has a square stalk, is an insignificant look- 



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Chapman*s Honey Plants 



ing weed, with inconspicuous flowers, that afford abundant 

 nectar from the middle of July till frost. I have received 

 almost as many for identification as I have of the asters 

 and golden rods. Prof. Beal remarked to me a year or 

 two since, that it hardly seemed possible that it could be 

 so valuable. We cannot always rightly estimate by appear- 

 ances alone. It is a very valuable plant to be scattered in 

 waste places. The Chapman's honey plant, Echinops 

 sphaerocephalus (Fig. 174), commences to bloom late in 

 July and continues till in August. It takes its first name 



