OR MANUAl, OF THB APIARY. 4S3 



long- avenues of eucalyptus, the graceful peppers, and the 

 incomparable date-palms. 



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 mignonettte, and remem- 

 ber that it, with figwort, spider-plant, Rocky Mountain bee- 

 plant, and borage, bloom till frost. Study the bee-plants of 

 your region, and then study the foregoing table, and provide 

 for a succession, remembering that the mustards, rape and 

 buckwheat may be made to bloom almost at pleasure, by sow- 

 ing 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 foregoing 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. 



