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July Plants. 



JULY PLANTS. 



Early in this month opens the far-famed basswood or linden, 

 T'dia Americana (Fig. 151), which for the profusion and 



Fig. 150. 



Magnolia. 



quality of its honey has no superior. Mr. Doolittle got 66 

 pounds of honey from this source by a single colony in three 

 days. There is rarely a year that it does not give us some of 



