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APIARIES. 
addition to the gooseberry, currant, and raspberry 
bushes, and the several orchard trees, the flower- 
borders in his garden should be well stocked with 
snow-drops, crocuses, wall-flower, and, above all, with 
mignonette, which affords honey of the richest flavour, 
and which continues flowering till the near approach 
of winter. The rich melliferous blossoms of the 
Buddlea globota , too, the bees are very fond of; and 
some of the Cacalia tribe afford an ample store. 
“ The Cacalia suaveolens,” says Darwin, “ produces 
so much honey, that on some days it may be smelt 
at a great distance from the plant. I remember once 
counting on one of these plants, besides bees of vari- 
ous kinds without number, above 200 painted butter- 
flies, which gave it the beautiful appearance of being 
covered with additional flowers."* Besides these, the 
plants of Borage, (Borago,) and viper's Bugloss, 
(Echium vulgare) yield a very considerable quantity 
of the rich liquid. The former is eagerly resorted to 
by the Bees ; it is an annual, and blossoms during the 
whole season till destroyed by frost. In cold and 
showery weather, the Bees feed on it in preference 
to every other plant, owing to its flowers being pendu- 
lous. The Bugloss appears as a troublesome weed 
among corn, and grows on dry soils in great profusion ; 
it is a biennial plant. Turnips, particularly the early 
garden kind, should be sown and allowed to remain 
in their beds during the winter ; and they will in 
consequence, by their early flowering, afford a season- 
* Economy of Vegetation, Canto IV. 
