Hints for Planting. 3S3 



The former treats of systematic, the latter of physiological 

 botany. 



PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS. 



It will pay well for the apiarist to decorate his grounds 

 with soft and silver maples, for their beauty and early 

 bloom. If his soil is rich, sugar maples and lindens may 

 well serve a similar purpose. Indeed, every apiarist should 

 strive to have others plant the linden. No tree is so worthy 

 a place by the roadside. The Judas and tulip trees, both 

 North and South, may well be made to ornament his home. 

 For vines, obtain the wistarias, where they are hardy. 



Sow and encourage the sowing of Alsike clover and 

 silver-leaf or Japanese buckwheat in your neighborhood. 

 Be sure that your wife, children, and bees can often repair 

 to a large bed of the new giant or grandiflora mignonette, 

 and remember that it, with figwort, spider plant, Rocky 

 Mountain bee plant, and borage, blooms till frost. Study 

 the bee plants of your region, and then study the above 

 table, and provide for a succession, remembering that the 

 mustards, rape and buckwheat may be made to bloom 

 almost at pleasure, by sowing at the proper time. Do not 

 forget that borage and the mustards seem comparatively 

 indifferent to wet weather. Be sure that all waste places 

 are stocked with motherwort, catnip, pleurisy root, figwort, 

 cleome, viper's bugloss, asters, etc. 



The above dates, unless specially mentioned, are only 

 correct for Michigan, Northern Ohio, and similar latitudes, 

 and for more southern latitudes must be varied, which, by 

 comparison of a few, as the fruit trees, becomes no difficult 

 matter. 



