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source alone. The honey, though dark,* is of a good 

 flavor. This tree often attains a height of over one hun- 

 dred feet, and its rich foliage, with its large blossoms of 

 mingled green and yellow, make it a most beautiful 

 sight. 



The Unden, or bass-wood (TiUa Americana) yields an 

 abundance of white honey of a delicious flavor, and, as it 

 blossoms when both the swarms and parent-stocks are 

 iisually populous, the weather settled, and other bee- 

 forage scarce, its value to the bee-keeper is very great.f 



" Here their delicious task, the fervent bees 

 In swarming millions tend : around, athwart, 

 Through the soft air the busy nations fly, 

 Cling to the bud, and with inserted tube, 

 Suck its pure essence, its etherial soul." — Thomson. 



This majestic tree, adorned, so late in the season, with 

 beautiful clusters of fragrant blossoms, is well worth 

 attention as an ornamental shade-tree. By adorning our 

 villages and country residences with a fair allowance of 

 tulip, linden, and such other trees as are not only beautiful 

 to the eye, but attractive to bees, the honey-resources of 

 the country might, in process of time, be greatly increased. 



The common locust is a very desirable tree for the 

 vicinity of an Apiary, yielding much honey when it is 

 peculiarly needed by the bees. In many districts, locust 

 and bass-wood plantations would be valuable for their 

 timber alone. 



Hives in the vicinity of extensive beds of seed-onions 

 will speedily become very heavy ; the offensive odor of 



* The honey of Hymettus, which has been so celebrated from the most ancient 

 times, is of arfair golden color. The lightest-colored honey is by no means always 

 the best, 



t Jndge Fishback says that nearly all his surplus honey is gathered from the 

 'linden.- A correspondent of the Bien&nzeihmg^ in Wisconsin, states that, in 1853, 

 SeTeral of his hives increased in weight onp hundred pounds each, ^11116 this trf^ 

 was in blossom. 



