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In the following table will be found a list of valuable honey 

 plants. Those in the first column are annual, biennial or 

 perennial ; the annual being enclosed in a parenthesis thus: ( ); 

 the biennial enclosed in brackets thus; [] ; while those in the 

 second column are shrubs or trees ; the names of shrubs 

 being enclosed in a parenthesis. The date of commence- 

 ment of bloom is, of course, not invariable. The one appended, 

 in case of plants which grow in our State, is about average 

 for Central Michigan. Those plants whose names appear in 

 small capitals yield very superior honey. Those with (a) are 

 useful for other purposes than honey secretion. All but those 

 with a * are native or very common in Michigan. Those written 

 in the plural refer to more than one species. Those followed 

 by a t are very numerous in species. Of course I have not 

 named all, as that would include some hundreds which have 

 been observed at the college, taking nearly all of the two great 

 orders Compositse and Rosaceae. I have only aimed to give 

 the most important, omitting many foreign plants of notoriety, 

 as I have had no personal knowledge of them: 



April 



April and May. 

 May and June . 

 May and June . 

 May and June . 

 June to July 

 June to July 

 June to July 

 June to July 

 June to July 

 June to July 

 June to August 

 Jane to August 

 June to frost... 

 June to frost. . . 

 June to frost. . . 

 June to frost. . . 

 June to frost. . . 

 June to frost. . , 

 June to frost... 



July 



July 



July to August. 

 July to August. 

 July to August. 

 July to frost — 



July to frost 



July to frost.. . . 



August 



August 



August to frost 

 August to frost 

 August to fcost 

 August to frost 

 August to frost 

 August to frost 



Strawberry, (a) 

 *White Sage, California 

 *Sumac, Calif ornia. 

 *CofifeeBerry,Califomla 

 White Clover, (a) 



ALSIKE OLOVER.(a) 



'[Sweet Clover.] 

 Horehound. [Weed, 

 Ox-eyed Daisy — Bad 

 Bush Honeysuckle. 

 *Sage, 



Mother-wort. 

 ♦(Borage.) 

 •(Cotton.) (a) 

 Silk or Milk Weeds. 

 (Mustard)t 

 *(Rape.)(a) 

 St. John's Wort. 

 (Mignonette.) (o) 

 (Corn.) (a) 

 •(Tea8el.)(a) 

 •Catnip, (a) 

 Asparagus, (a) 

 •(Rocky M'tBee Plant) 

 Boneset. 

 Bergamot. 

 Figwort, 

 (Buckwheat.) (a) 

 (Snap-dragon.) 

 (Golden RoD.)t 

 Asters.t 



Marsh Sun-Flowers. 

 Tick-Seed. 

 Beggar-Ticks. 

 Spanish Needles. 



March and Ap'l 

 March and Ap'l 

 March and Ap'l 

 March and Ap'l 

 April and May. 

 April and May. 



May ! . 



May 



May 



May 



May 



May 



May 



May 



May and June. . 

 May and June. . 

 May and June. . 

 May and June.. 



June 



June 



June 



June 



June 



June to July ... 



July 



July 



July 



July to August. 



July to Sept 



August 



August to Sept. 



Bed or Soft Maple.(a) 

 Poplar or ^spen. 

 Silver Maple. 

 •Judas Tree. 

 (Willow8)f also Trees. 

 *Juda8 Tree— South. 

 (Shad-bush.) 

 (Alder.) 



Maples-Sugar Maple(a) 

 Crab Apple. 

 (Hawthorns.) 



C Fruit Trees — Apple^ 



< Plum, Cherry, Pear. 



( etc. (a) 



S (Currant and Goose- 



( berry.)(a) 

 *(Wi8tariaVine- South) 



( (Chinese Wistaria 



1 Vine-South.) 



(Barberry.) 



(Grape-vine.) (o) 



Tulip-tree. 



(Sumac.) 



Wild-Plum. 



(Black Raspberry.) (a) 



Locusts. 



(Red Kaspbebiiy.)(o) 



(Blackberry.) 



•Sourwood— South. 



(Button Bush.) 



BASSWOOD,(a) 



(Virginia Creeper.)(a) 



*Pepper-tree, Cal'a. 



•(St. John's Worts.) 



(Late Sumac.) 



*Red Gum, CaUfomla. 



