. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the "New Zealand bee manual" greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten. Bees. BEE MANUAL. 291 gathered, it has, hke the honey of most other fall flowers, a rather rank, weedy taste ; but after it has thoroughly ripened it is very rich. Spider plant {Gleome pungens) (Fig. 137) is another common weed in some parts of the United States, which yields a good quantity of nectar; it is allied to, and very much like, the Rocky Mountain bee plant {Gleom
. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the "New Zealand bee manual" greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten. Bees. BEE MANUAL. 291 gathered, it has, hke the honey of most other fall flowers, a rather rank, weedy taste ; but after it has thoroughly ripened it is very rich. Spider plant {Gleome pungens) (Fig. 137) is another common weed in some parts of the United States, which yields a good quantity of nectar; it is allied to, and very much like, the Rocky Mountain bee plant {Gleome integrifolio). Ihe peculiarity about this plant is that it only yields nectar at night, commencing late in the evening, at which time and very early morning the bees. Fig. 135.—THREE VARIETIES OF GOIDEN-RODS (Solidago). visit it. I have had some very good reports of this plant from those I have supplied with seeds. It lasts a long time in blos- som, and is rather handsome when in flower. Mr. Root speaks very highly of both the plant and the quality of the nectar it yields. The seeds of the foregoing plants—that is, figwort, horse-mint, golden-rods, asters, and spider plant—together with any of the herbs, such as horehound, catnip, etc., might be scattered about in waste places and odd corners, without doing any harm, and with profit to 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 Hopkins, Isaac, 1837-1925. Auckland, N. Z.
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