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possible that it could be so valuable. We cannot always 

 rightly estimate by appearances alone. It is a very valuable 

 plant to be scattered in waste places. 



That beautiful and valuable honey plant, from Minnesota, 

 Colorado and the Kocky Mountains, cleome, or the Rocky 

 l\[ountain bee-plant, Cleome intecjriJoUa (Fig. 153), if self- 

 sown, or sown early in the spring, blooms by the middle of 

 July and lasts for long weeks. Nor can anything be more gay 

 than these brilliant flowers, alive with bees all through the 



Fig. 155 



Padion Ball. 



long fall. This should be planted in fldl in drills two feet 

 apart, the plants six inches apart in the drills. It will not 

 grow if planted in the spring. The seeds, which grow in pods, 

 are very numerous, and are said to be valuable for chickens. It 

 does best on light soil. Now commence to bloom the numer- 

 ous Eupatoriums, or bonesets, or thoroughworts (Fig. 154), 

 which fill the marshes of our country, and the hives as well, 

 with their rich golden nectar. These are precursors of that 



