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vosemary, Creeping thyme, © 
Brainble, or blackberry, Sunflower, 
imple roses, in all their va- Service, 
a  rieues, Violets, in variety. 
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 _ Note by the Translator.—The whole of this schedule might be con- _ 
densed into a few words, viz. all kinds of flowers afford food for bees. 
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_In the number of the preceding plants, the golden sheaf 
erbe d’or,) should be particularly distinguished, because 
it begins to flower when most other plants have ceased to 
- flowers and whose flower forms a head, or tuft, like an 
_ ear of wheat, and preserves its perfume and aroma till 
near the end of November. This plant is always covered 
with bees during the last month of summer, and the first 
‘two months of autumn, whenever the weather is favourable 
yr the bees to go abroad. Wherever bees are cultivated, 
this plant ought also to be cultivated. It is perennial, grows 
ee tufts, or clusters, and expands. It grows on the poorest 
ids, among heath, on chalky and limy thin soil. One 
2 of the meanest ground, planted with golden sheaf, 
Id supply more than a hundred swarms of bees with 
ifficient nourishment in autumn, to complete their winter 
stock of provisions. 
In general, we ought to cultivate, and have near the api- © 
ary, all the plants which begin to flower in February and 
March, and also, all the plants, such as the golden sheaf, 
vhich retain their flowers and aroma till checked by 
ie frosts of autumn. Bees, always active and laborious, 
rail themselves of the latest, as well as of the earliest mo- 
ments of the vegetation of all flowering plants. 
All well informed cultivators of bees say, that all-ve- 
getables contain the principles of honey, and only differ in 
the more or less quantity. Consequently, bees can collect 
nourishment proportioned to the abundance of their natural 
food, in every country in which they live. But the vast and 
rich meadows, enamelled with flowers, the fields whitened 
with buckwheat, the plains gilded with the flowers of rape 
ind wild cabbage, the immense forests garnished with all 
orts of trees, present the bees with profusion, wherewith to 
upply their daily wants, and unlimited provisions to fill 
their magazines. The mountains, covered with rosemary, 
lavender, thyme, and other aromatic plants; and lands co- 
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