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-Basswood as a Honey Plant. 



JULY PLANTS. 



Early in this month opens the far-famed basswood or 

 linden, Tilia Americana (Fig. 173), which for the profusion 



Fig. 171. 



and quality of its honey has no superior. !Mr. Doolittie 

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



