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May PlanU 



The barberry, too, Berberi? vidgarvi (Fig. 130), comes after 

 fruit blossom.s, and is thronged with bees in search of nectar 



Fig. 129. 



Fig. 130. 



Barherri/. 



Cliinesi' Wistaria. 



in spring, as with children in winter, in quest of the beautiful 

 scarlet berries, so pleasingly tart. 



In California, the sumac, the horehound, the famous black 

 sage (Fig. 131), Audibertia Palmeri, or more correctly 

 Trechosteina lanatum, (there are two other species less common,) 

 with its most beautiful and delicious houe\', and the more 

 common, and hardly less excellent white sage, Audihertw, 

 polystachia , (Fig. 132), keep the bees roaring with activity, 

 in favorable seasons, from April even into. June. 



