PASTURAGE. 



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of the common kind, the Alsclepias Sullivantii, does not 

 present to bees these difficulties to the same degree. We 

 have seen bees gathering honey freely on four or five differ- 

 ent varieties which grow in our neighborhood, and especially 

 on the Tuberosa or Pleurisy root (Fig. 145), fitly recom- 

 mended by James Heddon. This kind is noticeable by its 

 orange flowers. 



Fig. 149. 

 BLACK MUSTARD. 



Oruciferous: — Rape (Fig. 148), Mustard (Fig. 149), 

 Cabbage, Radish, Candy Tuft, Stock, Wall-Flower, Moon- 

 wort, Sweet Alyssum, Cress. 



Ericaceae,: — This family, on the Old Continent, includes 

 the numerous varieties of Heath, on which bees reap a 

 large harvest of inferior honey, so thick that it is impos- 

 sible to extract it. Blueberry, Sour Wood, Laurel, Clethra 

 alnifoha. Cowberry (Fig. 150), Huckleberry, Whortle- 

 berry, Gaultheria Procumbens, or Creeping wintergreen, — 

 which is indicated, by some Enghsh bee-keepers, as pre- 



