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True 1IIVE AND IIONET-BKE. 
0 Nature kind ! 0 laborer wise ! 
That roam’st along the Summer’s ray, 
Glean’st every bliss thy life supplies, 
And mect’st prepared thy wintry day I 
Go, envied, go — with crowded gates, 
The hive thy rich return awaits ; 
Bear home thy store in triumph gay, 
And shame each idler of the day !’ ” 
,. London Quarterly Review. 
If there is any plant which would justify cultivation 
exclusively for bees, it is the borage {Borago officinalis). 
It blossoms continually from June until severe frost, and, 
like the raspberry, is frequented by bees even in moist 
weather. The honey from it is of a superior quality, and 
an acre would support a large number of stocks. 
The golden-rod (Solicit i go) affords a late and very 
valuable pasturage for bees, yielding, in some regions and 
seasons, an important part of their Winter stores. Some 
of the earlier-flowering varieties are of no value to^bces; 
but those which blossom in September abound in honey 
of a superior quality. 
The numerous species of asters, lining, in many dis- 
tricts, the road-sides and the borders of fields, are almost 
as valuable to the bees as the golden-rod. Where these 
two plants abound, bees should not be fed until they have 
passed out of bloom, as light but populous stocks will 
often obtain from them all the Winter stores they need. 
The following catalogue of bee-plants, which might 
easily be enlarged, is taken from Nutt, an English 
Apiarian : 
‘•Alder, almond, althea frutex, alyssum, amaranthus, apple, 
apricot, arbutus, ash, asparagus, aspin. aster, balm, bean, beach, 
betony, blackberry, borage, box, bramble, broom, bugloss (viper's), 
buckwheat, burnet, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, cherry, chestnut, 
chickwccd, clover, cole or coleseed, coltsfoot, coriander, crocus, 
