384 PASTURAGE. 



" 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 ioserted tube, 

 Suck its pure essence, its etherial soul." 



Thomson. 



The common locust, and the honey-locust, ( Gleditschia 

 Triacanthus,) are very desirable trees for the vicinity of an 

 Apiary, yielding much honey, at a time when peculiarly 

 valuable to the bees. In many sections, the setting out of 

 large plantations of Locust and Bass Wood, would be highly 

 profitable for the value of the wood, without any reference 

 to Apiarian pursuits. 



The blossoms of onions abound in honey, the odor of 

 which, when first gathered, is very offensive, but before it 

 is sealed over, this disappears. Hives in the vicinity of e.v- 

 tensive beds of seed onions, will speedily become very 

 heavy. 



Of all the sources from which bees derive their supplies, 

 white clover is the most important. It yields large quanti- 

 ties of very pure white honey, and wherever it abounds, 

 the bee will find a rich harvest. In most parts of this 

 country, it seems to be the chief reliance of the Apiary. 

 Blossoming at a season of the year when the weather is 

 usually both dry and hot, the bees as they gather the honey 

 from it, after the sun has dried off the dew, find it so thick 

 that it is ready to be sealed over almost at once. This 

 clover ought to be much more extensively cultivated than it 

 now is, and I consider myself as conferring a benefit not 

 only on bee-keepers, but on the agricultural community at 

 large, in being able to state on the authority of one of New 

 England's ablest practical farmers and writers on agricul- 

 tural subjects, Hon. Frederick Holbrook, of Brattleboro', 

 Vermont, that the common white clover may be cultivated 



