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Clovers.—Crimson, blossoming in April or May, yields fine, light- 
colored honey; white, alsike, and mammoth or medium, blossoming in 
May, June, and July, give honey of excellent quality and rich yellow 
color. 
Mustard grown for seed flowers from June to August. The honey 
is somewhat acrid and crystallizes soon, yet the plant, where abundant, 
is of much importance to the bees and the bee keeper in case other for- 
age is scant at the time. 
Asparagus blossoms are much visited by bees in June and July. 
Esparcet, or sainfoin, yields in May and June fine honey, almost as 
clear as spring water. Itisa perennial leguminous plant, rather hardy, 
an excellent forage crop, and particularly valuable for milch cows. It 
succeeds best on a limestone soil or when lime is used as a fertilizer, 
and is itself an excellent green manure for soils deficient in nitrogen 
and phosphoric acid. 
Sulla, or sulla clover, a perennial plant, closely related to esparcet or 
sainfoin, succeeds, like the latter, best upon limestone soil or when 
fertilized with lime. It yields a splendid quality of honey from 
beautiful pink blossoms, which continue during May and June. The 
plant is an excellent soil fertilizer and of great value in connection 
with the feeding of stock, particularly dairy animals. It is, however, 
much less hardy than esparcet, and success with it can therefore 
hardly be looked for above the latitude of North Carolina and Arkansas. 
When the qualities and requirements ef this plant were brought by 
the writer to the notice of a prominent scientific agriculturist of the 
South, this gentleman suggested as very probable that the black belt 
of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas would be well adapted 
to it, the lands of this region being exceedingly strong in lime. In 
portions of southern Europe sulla clover is a most important forage 
crop for farm stock as well as for honey bees. 
Serradella is an annual leguminous plant which will grow on sandy 
land, and which yields, besides good forage, clear honey of good quality 
in June and July. 
Chestnut, valuable for timber, ornament, shade, and nuts, yields 
honey and pollen in June or July. 
Linden, sourwood, and catalpa, fine shade, ornamental, and timber 
trees, yield great quantities of first quality honey in June and July. 
Cotton.—In the South cotton blossoms, appearing as they do in suc- 
cession during the whole summer, often yield considerable honey. It 
would appear, however, that when the plants are very rank in growth 
the blossoms—being correspondingly large—are too deep for the bees 
to reach the nectar. 
Chicory, raised for salad and for its roots, is, whenever permitted to 
blossom, eagerly visited for honey in July and August. 
Sweet, medicinal, and pot herbs, such as marjoram, savory, lavender, 
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