Cabbage Palmetto. 



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vervains, or verbenas, Verbena hastata, and V. stricta, also 

 fog-fruit, Lippia lyceroides, another of this family, is val- 

 ued very highly in Texas — it grows ten feet high and bears 

 beautiful vrhite flowers; the iron weeds, Vernonias, the mal- 

 vas. Culver's root, Veronica Virginica — another of the fig- 

 wort family; Indian plantains, Cacalias, and viper's bugloss 

 — the so-called blue thistle — all contribute to the apiary in 

 July; the viper's bugloss, Echium vulgare, though most 

 common South is very abundant at Beeton, Canada. Mr. 



Fig. 



Cahha^e Palmetto, 



Jones has it growing all about his apiaries. I have never 

 seen it in Michigan. It is a near relation of borage, and 

 does not belong even to the family — Compositse— of the 

 thistles. 



In California, the blue gum and the red gum. Eucalyp- 

 tus globulus, and E. rostrata, introduced from Australia, 

 furnish honey from July and August till December. 



The catalpa, a very rapid growing tree, throws its large, 

 showy blossoms to the breeze and bees in July. It is rap- 



