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six feet apart, and well cultivated to produce the finest results. The 

 roots of the raspberry run near the surface of the soil, hence care must 

 be taken not to plant too deep. Soon after the fruit trees, it yields an 

 abundance of beautiful honey, for two or three weeks. The honey 

 is secreted rapidly and bees work on it throughout the day. In damp, 

 rainy weather, bees visit its blossoms, when scarcely anything else 

 seems to be yielding honey. Blackberries, currants, strawberries, and 

 gooseberries, are visited by the bees, but among these for purposes of 

 the apiarian, none compare with the raspberry. 



BASSWOOD. 



This tree is too well known to need any description. It yields rich, 

 light honey, from July 10th for about two or three week?. In large 

 portions of America it is found in abundance, in the natural forests 

 along with the poplar or tulip tree. Different varieties of the poplar 

 bear the name of white-wood, which yields honey in abundance in May 

 and June. 



tfOUTHEBN HONEY TBEES. 



In the South the orange and lime trees, sour-wood, poplar, holly, and 

 persimmon, yield large quantities of honey. In some parts of North 

 Carolina and Virginia the persimmon is found in great abundance. A 

 writer from Henderson county, N. C. , wrote some time since to the 

 Magazine as follows, concerning it : 



"The persimmon affords plenty of honey where it is abundant. 

 Swine eagerly hunt for the urn shaped flowers when they fall, and thrive 

 well on them. This tree does not injure the growth of grass or crops 

 near it. The fruit ii liked by many persons. Bees go a long distance 



