14 PERENNIAL HONEY PLANTS 
competition and spreads slowly from self-seeding. Ap- 
parently this is a good plant for naturalizing along 
roadsides and borders. Weeds can be mowed over it 
without injury to the meadow sage. You will like this 
plant in your flower garden. 
Ask us for the reprint, “New Sages for the Bee Pas- 
Meadow Sage is abundant in nectar at a time in the 
spring when there is little else for the bees 
ture.”’ 
Seed, packet, 20c; per ounce, $1.00; % pound, $3.00; 
postpaid. 
SUMMER SAGE 
(Salvia superba) 
This is a strong growing sage reaching a height of 
about three feet and blooming intermittently all season. 
It blooms very freely in June and again in September, 
with some flowers all summer. It is usually swarming 
with bees. It is ornamental and good for naturalizing. 
Perennial. 
Seed, per packet, 20c, postpaid. 
SALVIA VIRGATA 
This strong growing perennial blooms freely in mid- 
summer, following the early bloom of Summer Sage. It 
reaches a height of three to four feet with light blue 
flowers. Much visited by bees. 
Seed, per packet, 20c, postpaid. 
ANISE HYSSOP 
(Agastache anethicdora) 
This wonder honey plant attracts the bees more con- 
sistently than any other of the 500 under observation 
in the American Bee Journal trial gardens. We know 
no other plant which the bees will work so freely, all 
day and every day, and for so long a blooming period 
as Anise Hyssop under right conditions. 
Anise Hyssop furnishes an abundance of bloom be- 
ginning early in June. It blooms heavily for over two 
