. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. SHRUBS BELONGING TO THE ROSE FAMILY. 53 such strange flowers as catnip, mustard, hoarhound, melilot, and delphinium are good honey bearers. Of course, apple blossoms, and, in fact, all fruit-tree blossoms, are especially attractive to the bees, the crab apple in particular; but the flowers of the lin- den, red maple, sugar maple, elm, locust, yellowwood, and tulip trees are equally sought by the bees. The black raspberry, sometimes called thimble- berry {Ruhus occidentalis), is also frequently found
. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. SHRUBS BELONGING TO THE ROSE FAMILY. 53 such strange flowers as catnip, mustard, hoarhound, melilot, and delphinium are good honey bearers. Of course, apple blossoms, and, in fact, all fruit-tree blossoms, are especially attractive to the bees, the crab apple in particular; but the flowers of the lin- den, red maple, sugar maple, elm, locust, yellowwood, and tulip trees are equally sought by the bees. The black raspberry, sometimes called thimble- berry {Ruhus occidentalis), is also frequently found beside the road. The leaf- lets are mostly in threes^ whereas in the red. Tlie High Blackherry raspberry tliey generally occur in jk)es\ there is, besides, a characteristic bloom like that on a plum, which covers the canes and the smallest stems. The the ants, who are always wandering about in search of food, may often be seen tryinff to jjet at the'nectar in the bottom of the arbutus blossoms. See Popular Science Monthly, May, 18;.' Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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