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lands, but spread rapidly over the still uncultivated lands in 
the neighbourhood. Dandelion, or capeweed (something differ- 
ent from the British dandelion, but equally good as bee forage), 
is very abundant, and thistles, which furnish a very good honey, 
spring up everywhere, for a time, in newly laid down lands, and 
spread themselves along the roadsides and into the waste or 
fern lands, wherever these have been for a while used as cattle 
runs ; they thus become a very considerable source of the honey 
supply in some parts of the country. The white thorn, sweet- 
briar, and furze, or gorse, are all more or less used in different 
districts as hedge plants; and whatever objections there may 
be to the two latter sorts on the score of their spreading over 
the lands and being troublesome to eradicate, wherever they 
do occur they can only be welcome to the bee-keeper. Fruit 
blossoms of all sorts are valuable in spring, and the willow, 
which is here a widely spread tree, is one of the earliest sorts 
of spring bee forage. 
It may be interesting here, before proceeding to notice some 
particular sorts of honey-bearing plants and flowers, to copy an 
alphabetical list given in the work of Thomas Nutt, an English 
apiarist, who wrote in 1832, as a catalogue of British “trees, 
plants, and flowers most frequented by bees,” and all of which 
either are already or may easily be cultivated here. 
“Alder, almond, Althea fontex, alyssum, amaranthus, apple, apricot, 
arbutus (alpine), ash, asparagus, aspin, balm, bean, beech, betony, 
blackberry, black currant, borage, box, bramble, broom, bugloss 
(viper’s), buckwheat, burnet, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, cherry, 
chestnut, chickweed, clover, cole (or coleseed), coltsfoot, coriander, 
crocus, crowfoot, crown imperial, cucumber, currants, cypress, daffo- 
dil, dandelion, dogberry, elder, elm, endive, fennel, furze, golden-rod, 
gooseberry, gourd, hawthorn, hazel, heath, holly, hollyhock (trumpet), 
honeysuckle, honey-wort (cerinthe), hyacinth, hyssop, ivy, jonquil, 
kidney-bean, laurel, laurustinus, lavender, leek, lemon, lily (water), 
lily (white), lime, liquid amber, liriodendron, lucerne, mallow (marsh), 
marigold (French), marigold(single), maple, marjoram(sweet), mil!elot, 
melon, mezereon, mignonette, mustard, nasturtium, nectarine, nettle 
(white), oak, onion, orange, ozier, parsley, parsnip, pea, peach, pear, 
peppermint, plane, plum, poplar, poppy, primrose, privet, radish, 
ragweed, raspberry, rosemary (wild), roses (single), rudebchiz, saffron 
sage, saintfoin, St. John’s. wort, savory (winter), snowdrop, snowberry, 
stock (single), strawberry, sunflower, sycamore, tamarisk tansy 
(wild), tare, teazel, thistle (common), thistle (sow), thyme (lemon) 
thyme (wild), trefoil, turnip, vetch, violet (single), wallflower (single), 
woad, willow-herb, willow tree, yellow weasel-snout.” ; 
