BEE PASTURAGE. 
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at all hours and in nearly all kinds of weather. They 
last from four to six weeks ; the catnip I have kno.wn 
to last twelve in a few instances, yielding honey 
during the whole time. Ox-eye daisy, ( Leucanthemum 
Vulgar ei) that beautiful and splendid flower, in pasture 
and meadow, and worth but little in either, also con- 
tains some honey. The flower is compound, and each 
little floret contains particles so minute, that the task 
of obtaining a load is very tedious. It is only visited 
when the more copious honey-yielding flowers are 
scarce. Snap-dragon, ( Linaria Vulgaris,) with its 
nauseous and sickening odor, troubling the farmer 
with its vile presence, is made to bestow the only good 
thing about it, except its beauty, upon our insect. 
The flower is large and tubular, and the bee to reach 
the honey must enter it ; to sec the bee almost disap- 
pear within the folds of the corolla, one would think 
that it was about being swallowed, when the hideous 
mouth was gaping to receive it; but unharmed, soon 
it emerges from the yellow prison, covered with dust ; 
this is not brushed into pellets on its legs, like the 
pollen from some other flowers, but a part adheres to 
its back bet\yeen the wings, which it is apparently 
unable to remove, as it remains there sometimes for 
months, making a cluster outside the hive, appear 
quite speckled. Bush honey-suckle ( Diervilla Tri- 
fida ) is another particular favorite. 
SINGULAR FATALITY ATTENDANT ON SILKWEED. 
Silkweed (Asclepias Cornuti ) is also another honey- 
yielding perennial, but a singular fatality attends many 
