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We cannot always 

 It is a very valuable 



possible that it could be so valuable, 

 rightly estimate h\ appearances alone. 

 plant to be scatterecl in waste places. 



That beautiful and valuable honey plant, from Minnesota, 

 Colorado and the Rocky Mountains, cleome, or the Eocky 

 Mountain bee-plant, Cleome hilegrifolia (Fig. 1-53), if self- 

 sown, or sow'n early in the sjDring, blooms by the middle of 

 July and lasts for long weeks. Kor can anything bemoregay 

 than these brilliant flowers, alive with bees all through the 



Fig. 155. 



Button Ball. 



long fall. This should be planted in fall in drills two feet 

 apart, the plants six inches apart in the drills. It will not 

 grow if planted in the spring. The seeds, which grow in pods, 

 are very numerous, and are said to be valuable for chickens. It 

 does best on light soil. Now conimence to bloom the numer- 

 ous Eupatoriums, or bonesets, or thorough worts (Fig. 154), 

 which fill the marshes of our country, and the hives as well, 

 with their rich golden nectar. These are precursors of that 



