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source alone. Tlie 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, m.ake it a most beautiful 
sight. 
The linden, or bass-wood (Tilia Americanci) yields an 
abundance of white honey of a delicious flavor, and, as it 
blossoms when both the sw.arms and parent-stocks are 
usually populous, the weather settled, and other bee¬ 
foragescarce, its value to the bee-keeper is very great.| 
“ Here their dclieio is 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 essoace, its etherial soul.”—T homson. 
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. 
Hives in the vicinity of extensive beds of seed-onions 
uill speedily become very heavy; the offensive odor of 
• The honey of TTyDiettus, which has been so celebrated from the most ancient 
limes, Is of a fair golden color. The lightcst^colorod honey Is by no means always 
the best 
t .luilgc Flshback eays that near y all his surplus honey Is gathcroil from the 
llnilen. A eorrespomlent of the BienmzeUang, In Wisconsin, states thnh In 1853, 
several of hla hives hicronseil in weight one hundred pounds each, while this tre“ 
wa.H in blossom. 
