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We have also the apple tree, pear, quince, cherry, 
peach, plum, apricot, chestnut, horse chestnut, the two 
last often yielding large quantities of honey from their 
flowers, and also, their leaves are receptacles for the 
honey dews. The soft maple often yields a fair quan- 
tity and quality of honey in early spring. The hard 
maple, ( Acer Saccliarinum,) also yields some in its 
season, and its leaves like the chestnuts, oaks, hickory, 
elms, basswood, &c., are sometimes covered with honey 
dews. Blackberry and raspberry, ( Rubus Strigosus.) 
furnish a beautiful honey and in considerable quan- 
tities. Catnip, ( Nepet.a Cataria,) madwort or hoar- 
hound, ( Marruhium, Vulgare ,) motherwort, ( Leomirus 
Cardica,) Mustard, ( Sinapis Nigra,) next to the 
clovers ought to be ranked and cultivated for their great 
value for honey. They blossom at a time when the 
white clover fails to yield honey, and most other 
flowers have faded; the latter stands excessive drouths, 
and yields a profusion of flowers unequalled almost in 
the vegetable kingdom. It begins to blossom when 
quite young, and each successive day brings forth new 
blossoms for weeks in succession, until the little plant 
becomes a miniature tree five or six feet high ; a perfect 
bank of golden-colored blossoms, almost from bottom 
to top, that are rich with pollen and fine honey. If 
fields of this were cultivated universally throughout the 
country our honey harvest might be doubled each year. 
The seed alone has become an article of commerce of 
no inconsiderate value, and would pay the cultivator a 
larger profit on this alone than many of the cereals 
now grown for market. 
The dandelion furnishes a rich pasture, but its dura- 
tion is too short to make it very valuable, except as one 
