CULTIVATING HONEY CHOPS. 
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In most places, there are, even in the best honey years, times 
of scarcity, during which few flowers can be found. These va- 
cancies may he profitably filled and immense stores of honey se- 
cured by planting out flower-trees, shrubs, and cultivating field 
crops with especial reference to this object. 
For bee pasturage, as well as for fruit, the cherry tree has 
never been rightly appreciated. Several of the early improved 
varieties bloom in a time when most needed by the bees, and 
even the latest are fully improved by them. The raspberry 
continues in bloom about three weeks, and few flowers furnish 
so large a quantity of purest nectar. The fruit is a surer crop 
even than the cherry, and every one knows that “purple cane,” 
“black cap” and “orange” raspberries, and “sweet cherries,” 
do not always need to be taken to market to find purchasers. 
Let your lanes and avenues and the front of your grounds be 
lined with the locust, linden, hard and soft maple, tulip and chest- 
nut. These are beautiful shade and ornamental trees and will 
increase the value of your property ten times the expense of 
planting them. A pleasing contrast is produced by interspersing 
among them cherry, apple and other fruit trees, all affording large 
supplies of delicious honey. 
CULTIVATING HONEY CHOPS. 
White clover stands first on the list of honey crops. When 
sown with other grasses it is valuable for hay, and for pasture 
it cannot be excelled. Where it is abundant there are never 
bees enough to collect one-fourth of the honey it affords. Red 
clover secretes much honey, yet it is mostly beyond the reach of 
the common bees, but Italian bees store honey from it to a much 
