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The raspberry furnishes a quantity of honey, superior 
in flavor to any other. 
The locust yields much honey, when it is most 
needed by the bees. 
White clover is the most important source from which 
bees derive their supplies. Of late, it is growing along 
road-sides, in pastures of horses and cattle, and in 
many other places. It yields large quantities of very 
pure white honey, and in flavor is only second to rasp- 
berry. 
Red clover yields its blossoms from June till October, 
and excels all other plants for producing honey; a 
single head often yielding a number of drops in a sin- 
gle day, and it often yields it so plentifully, that when 
the cups are taken between the thumb and fore-finger, 
it can be pressed in large drops from the lower ends of 
them. The flavor of the honey is equal to the white 
clover honey. The Italian been only, can collect the 
large amount of honey of red clover, the proboscis of 
the black bee being too short to reach the honey in its 
deep cups, and owing to this great advantage of the 
Italian bees, we are able to obtain at least double the 
amount of honey that would be collected by black 
bees. 
Buckwheat blossoms yield a large quantity of honey; 
if gathered late in the fall, when the atmosphere is 
moist, or in a wet season, it is liable to sour in the 
