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CHAPTEE Vn. 



DIAKY OF HONEY PLANTS. 



Success in bee-culture depends upon various thing?, just as success 

 in every other line of business. The farmer who aims to keep a few 

 hives, in some neglected corner, and who "has not time " to attend to 

 them at the proper season, cannot expect to find the bees very profit- 

 able. He can no more expect a large income from them, than he could 

 from his corn which he "had not time" to work, after he had planted it. 



But whilst this is true, careful and timely attention is, perhaps, no- 

 where better paid than when judiciously given to bees. This chapter 

 will be devoted especially to the different ways in which that which is 

 pleasant an ornamental around the home, may be made also profit- 

 able for honey. 



FRUIT TREES. 



Every home should be surrounded with fruit trees, unless so restrict- 

 ed by walls and streets in the city , that there is no room for them. Every 

 farmer, from year to year, should increase the number of fruit trees. 

 The value of fruit for health can hardly be over estimated. Bees are 

 very important in securing a good yield of fruit. Sent by nature, from 

 flower to flower, they carry the pollen and fructify the germ, and make 

 a good crop more certain. 



A few years ago bees were banished from a certain town in Connecti- 



