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such strange flowers as catnip, mustard, hoarhound, 

 melilot, and delphinium are good honey bearers. Of 

 course, apple blossoms, and, in fact, all fruit-tree 

 blossoms, are especially attractive to the bees, the 

 crab apple in particular ; but the flowers of the lin- 

 den, red maple, sugar maple, elm, locust, yellowwood, 

 and tulip trees are equally sought by the bees. 



The black raspberry, sometimes called thimble- 

 berry {Ruhus occidentalis), is also frequently found 

 beside the road. The leaf- 

 lets are mostly in 

 threes^ whereas 

 in the red 



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raspberry tliey generally occur in jk)es\ there is, 

 besides, a characteristic bloom like that on a plum, 

 which covers the canes and the smallest stems. The 



the ants, who are always wandering about in search of food, may 

 often be seen tryinff to jjet at the 'nectar in the bottom of the 

 arbutus blossoms. See Popular Science Monthly, May, 18;.' 1. 



