OR, MANUAI, OF THB APIARY. 



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That beautiful and valuable honey-plant from Minnesota, 

 Colorado, and the Rocky Mountains, Cleome, or the Rocky 

 Mountain bee-plant (Cleome serrulata), (Fig. 241), if self-sown, 

 or sown in the fall, blooms by the middle of July and lasts for 

 long weeks. Nor can anything be more gay than these bril- 

 liant flowers, alive with bees all through the long fall. While 

 this is a very valuable honey-plant in its native Colorado, it 

 gives little or no promise East. 



Fig. 243. 



Button-Ball. — Original. 



Now commence to bloom the numerous EJupatoriums, or 

 bones&ts, or thoroughworts (Fig. 242), which fill the marshes 

 of our country, and the hives as well, with their rich, golden 

 nectar. These are precursors of that profusion of this com- 

 posite order, whose many species are even now budding, in 

 preparation for the sea of flowers which will deck the marsh- 

 lands of August and September. Wild bergamot (Monarda 

 fistulosa), which, like the thistles, is of importance to the api- 



