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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, 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 
“ Ilere their dclicio 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 essence, its etherial 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. 
Hives in the vicinity of extensive beds of seed-onions 
will speedily become very heavy; the offensive odor of 
* The honey of Ilymettns, 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. 
+ Judge Fishback says that near y all his surplus honey is gathered fVom the 
linden. A correspondent of the Bienenzeitung , in Wisconsin, states that, in 1853, 
several of his hives increased in weight one hundred pounds each, while this tr»** 
was in blossom. 
