. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. Cabbage Palmetto. 375 vervains, or verbenas, Verbena hastata, and V. stricta, also fog-fruit, Lippia lyceroides, another of this family, is val- ued very highly in Texas—it grows ten feet high and bears beautiful vrhite flowers; the iron weeds, Vernonias, the mal- vas. Culver's root, Veronica Virginica—another of the fig- wort family; Indian plantains, Cacalias, and viper's bugloss —the so-called blue thistle—all contribute to the apiary in July; the viper's bugloss, Echium vulgare, though most common South is very abundan
. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. Cabbage Palmetto. 375 vervains, or verbenas, Verbena hastata, and V. stricta, also fog-fruit, Lippia lyceroides, another of this family, is val- ued very highly in Texas—it grows ten feet high and bears beautiful vrhite flowers; the iron weeds, Vernonias, the mal- vas. Culver's root, Veronica Virginica—another of the fig- wort family; Indian plantains, Cacalias, and viper's bugloss —the so-called blue thistle—all contribute to the apiary in July; the viper's bugloss, Echium vulgare, though most common South is very abundant at Beeton, Canada. Mr. Cahha^e Palmetto, Jones has it growing all about his apiaries. I have never seen it in Michigan. It is a near relation of borage, and does not belong even to the family—Compositse—of the thistles. In California, the blue gum and the red gum. Eucalyp- tus globulus, and E. rostrata, introduced from Australia, furnish honey from July and August till December. The catalpa, a very rapid growing tree, throws its large, showy blossoms to the breeze and bees in July. It is rap-. 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 Cook, Albert John, 1842-1916. Chicago, Ill. : George W. York & Co.
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