BEE PASTURAGE. 
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all they collect in rearing their brood, &c. Thus it ap- 
pears in some sections six or eight weeks is about all 
the time they have to provide for winter. 
• GARDEN FLOWERS UNIMPORTANT. 
In passing along I have not mentioned garden flow- 
ers, because the amount obtained here is a small item, 
compared to the forest and fields — especially ornamen- 
tal flowers. It is true that the Hollyhock, ( Altha Ro- 
sea,) Mallows, ( Malva ; Rotundifolia,) and many others 
yield honey, but what does it amount to? A person 
expecting his hives to be filled from such a source 
would very likely be disappointed, especially when 
many are kept together. 
HONEY-DEW. 
Honey-dew is said to be a source from whence large 
collections are made in some places. When or where 
it appears or disappears is more than I can tell. 1 
have seen the accounts of it, but accounts I have learn- 
ed to doubt until I find something corroborative in my 
own experience. I find too many errors copied 
merely because they happen to be in company with 
several truths. Huber discovered many important 
truths, and has given them to the world ; too many 
writers take it far granted when two points of his are 
true, the third must be also. It is no proof that there 
is no such article merely because I never discovered 
it. In the many fruitless endeavors that I have made 
to get a view of this substance, it may be I have lack- 
ed close observation ; or possibly there is none show- 
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