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BORAGE 
If the beginner lives in town he would 
do well to keep on the right side of his 
neighbors at the very start. If he should 
be so successful as to secure some honey 
the first year, it would be good policy to 
give a bottle or a section of honey to the 
neighbors on each side and those in front 
across the street. Occasionally bees will 
sting the children who might get close to 
the line fence where they are flying. Occa¬ 
sionally bees will soil the neighbors’ wash 
by dropping stains on the clothes on the 
hives do not cross common highways, prac¬ 
tically no trouble will be encountered. See 
Backlot Beekeeping, Bees as a Nui¬ 
sance, Manipulation of Colonies, and 
Robbing. 
BELLFLOWER.— See Campanilla. 
BLACK BROOD. —See Foul Brood. 
BLACK GUM.— See Tupelo. Also call¬ 
ed black tupelo and water tupelo. A forest 
tree growing in swamps from southern 
New Jei’sey to Florida and Louisiana. 
Common borage. 
line; and occasionally, too, bees may be a 
little bothersome around the screen doors 
when the neighbor is busy making sweet 
pickles or preparing anything that gives 
off a sweet odor. A little honey given in 
advance will save hard feelings, and per¬ 
haps neighborhood trouble. 
If one will read carefully the directions 
against letting bees get to robbing, and 
place his hives in the yard in such a 
way that the bees as they fly from their 
BLIGHT. —See Fire Blight. 
BORAGE {Borago officinalis L.)—The 
common borage, introduced from Europe, 
is cultivated as a honey plant and for or¬ 
nament. The rotate or wheel-shaped flow¬ 
ers are sky-blue with a black cone of an¬ 
thers in the center. Under the dome formed 
by the anthers nectar is freely secreted by 
the pale yellow base of the ovary. The 
more or less inverted position of the flow- 
