292 Practical Conclusions. 



Sow and encourage the sowing of Alsike clover and silver- 

 leaf 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, bloom 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 com- 

 paratively indifferent to wet weather. Be sure that all waste 

 places are stocked with motherwort, catnip, figwort, cleome, 

 viper's bugloss, asters, etc. 



The above dates, unless specially mentioned, are only cor- 

 rect for Michigan, Northern Ohio, and similar latitudes, and 

 for more Southern latitudes must be varied, which, by com- 

 parison of a few, as the fruit trees, becomes no difficult matter. 



