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source alone. The honey, though dark,* is of a good 
flavor. This tree often attains a height of over one hun- 
dred feet, and its rich foliage, with its large blossoms of 
mingled green and yellow, make it a most beautiful 
sight. 
The linden, or bass-wood ( Tilia Americana) yields an 
abundance of white honey of a delicious flavor, and, as it 
blossoms when both the swarms and parent-stocks are 
usually populous, the weather settled, and other bee- 
forage scarce, its value to the bee-keeper is very great, f 
u Here their delicious task, the fervent bees 
In swarming millions tend : around, athwart, 
Through the soft air the busy nations fly, 
Cling to the bud, and with inserted tube, 
Suck its pure essence, its etlierial soul.” — Thomson. 
This majestic tree, adorned, so late in the season, with 
beautiful clusters of fragrant blossoms, is well worth 
attention as an ornamental shade-tree. By adorning our 
villages and country residences with a fair allowance of 
tulip, linden, and such other trees as are not only beautiful 
to the eye, but attractive to bees, the honey-resources of 
the country might, in process of time, be greatly increased. 
The common locust is a very desirable tree for the 
vicinity of an Apiary, yielding much honey when it is 
peculiarly needed by the bees. In many districts, locust 
and bass-wood plantations would be valuable for their 
timber alone. 
Ilives in the vicinity of extensive beds of seed-onions 
will speedily become very heavy ; the offensive odor of 
* The honey of Ilymettus, which has been so celebrated from the most ancient 
times, is of a fair golden color. The lightest-colored honey is by no means always 
the best, 
t Judge Fishback says that near' y all Ms surplus honey Is gathered from the 
linden. A correspondent of the Bienetizeiiung , in Wisconsin, states that, in 1858, 
several of his hives increased in weight one hundred pounds each, while this t«r** 
Was In blossom. 
