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MANUAL or THE APIARY. 



JUNE PLANTS. 



With June comes the incomparable white or Dutch clover, 

 Trifolium repens (Fig. 80), whose chaste and modest bloom 



Fig. SO.—WJiite or Butch Clover. 



betokens the beautiful, luscious, and unrivalled sweets which 

 are hidden in its corolla tube. Also its sister, Alsike or 

 Swedish, Trifolium hybrida (Fig. 81), which seems to resem- 

 ble both the white and red clover. It is a stronger grower than 

 the white, and has a whitish blossom tinged with pink. 

 This forms excellent pasture and hay for cattle, sheep, etc., 

 and may well be sown by the apiarist. It will often pay 

 apiarists to furnish neighbor farmers with seed as an induce- 

 ment to grow this par excellent honey plant. Like white 

 clover, it blooms all through June into July. Both of these 

 should be sown early in spring with timothy, five or six 

 pounds of seed to the acre, in the same manner that red 

 clover seed is sown. 



Sweet clover, yellow and white, Melilotus officinalis (Kg. 

 82), and Melilotus alba , are well named. They bloom from 

 the middle of June to the middle of July. Their perfume 

 scents the air for long distances, and the hum of bees that 

 throng their flowers is like music to the apiarist's ear. The 

 honey, too, is just exquisite. These clovers are biennial, not. 



