. The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary. Bee culture. SPIDER-FLOWER. 237 SPIDER-FLOWER. in, podded out with such a load. Now will our friend Mollie O. Large tell us if she has ever seen the like among her plants? An acre would furnish whew! I should not be surprised if it made a barrel of sweet- ened water, any way, every morning. Now I want four acr
. The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary. Bee culture. SPIDER-FLOWER. 237 SPIDER-FLOWER. in, podded out with such a load. Now will our friend Mollie O. Large tell us if she has ever seen the like among her plants? An acre would furnish whew! I should not be surprised if it made a barrel of sweet- ened water, any way, every morning. Now I want four acres of the Simpson honey-plant, and four more of the Mollie O. Large honey- plant ; if the name were not so long, we would call it so, for the credit she deserves for calling attention to it. Dear me ! the honey-farm will not be large enough. I have set the hands to-day to doing more under- draining, and I am going to plow up all cor- ners, and work up close to the fences, for we can not afford' to have a weed grow on the premises, so long as there are plants that bear honey like this. These plants are in our flower garden, close by the building, and have had a very rich, deep soil. This, perhaps, may account for such large amounts of hon- ey. This plant is strikingly like the Rocky- opens twice, but the honey is yielded only from the first blooming. In the center of the picture, a single floweret is shown, with its load of honey sparkling in the rays of the rising sun. The sight of a whole plant bending beneath a sparkling load of nectar like this is enough to set any bee-keeper crazy, let alone your enthusiastic old friend Novice. Our plants are on ground made by piling up the sods taken from where the factory stands; this may, in part, account for the great yield of honey. MORE ABOUT THAT AVONDERFUL SPIDER- PLANT. Oct. 14th. — Yesterday morning, Mr. Gray came down before sunrise, to verify my ob- servation and see that there was no mistake about that large drop of honey, th
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