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should be sown in the fall, when the plants will bloom the 
next season. 
Spider plant (Cleome pungens) has been attracting much 
attention as a honey plant among progressive bee-keepers. 
It is a beautiful and interesting plant, and produces an 
abundance of fine honey, but we fear its popularity as a reli- 
able honey plant will never become established. The care 
required in its cultivation, and the lateness before coming 
into bloom, will militate against it, so long as there are plenty 
Fig. 86.—Cleome in Bloom. 
equally as good which will be only too grateful for an oppor- 
tunity to occupy the soil unmolested, and pay their sweet 
tribute. Spider plant should be sprouted in hot-beds and 
transplanted. 
After several years of careful, close observation, we are 
more than confirmed in the good opinion we have heretofore 
formed and expressed regarding the excellence of mammoth 
