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SELECTING VARIETIES 
The best varieties arethvwee most suitable 
tes) for your indi bee pasture. 
Select such varieties that bloom near that 
period of the build-up in between your minor 
nectar flows when your bees are inclined to 
rob each year. We maintain that your minor 
nectar flows are more important than the 
main honey flow in that your minor nectar 
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flows are your natural stimulatives for that 
yearly build-up of your colonies of a larger 
field force of bees that are more able to get 
all of the main honey flow wh‘ch size most 
colonies do not attain. 
After each variety we list “n,” “s,” or “‘w’” 
designating the portion of U. S. where recom- 
mended. The small letter “n” designates that 
such variety grows up north, “s” for south, 
“w” for the inter-mountain region. The first 
letter where it thrives the best and last the 
least. In this way you are improving your 
bee pasture and eventually should manipulate 
your bees with less robbing and swarming. 
Show your flowers, trees, and shrubs to your 
neighbors and encourage them to pant like- 
wise. Explaining, with pride, that this sup- 
plement planting is for larger co‘onies that 
will better pollenize their fruit, vegetables, 
agricultural crops and legumes, which _ in- 
crease the fertility of the soil. Thus you both 
make your community more productive and 
the more beautiful to live in. 
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Shrubs 
No. 30—PINK TARTARIAN HONEYSUCKLE 
(Lonicera tartarica rubra) nws. 12’. 
This shrub deserves its last name as bees sure 
cover its bloom as though a whole swarm was near. 
Its instinet is to grow mostly in early spring from 
the early spring moisture before trecs start much 
growth so grows well under trees. Becomes large 
bush of light gray bark and covered in May with 
blossoms of a pinkish apple blossom shade. 

Pink Tartarian Honeysuckle 
The Wyoming University Experimental Farm has 
a full grown snow catch that is nearly a windbreak 
in itself around their main windbreak. This was 
doing well and would indicate that this variety will 
erow as well in the arid regions as they do in 
Minnesota. 
