. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. s. SAG-E {Salvia)—'d geneial name for white sage, bkick sage, and button sage, in California. These honey-bearing plants also belong to the Lahiatce., or mint family. The word "? labiate'' means lip-shaped; and on looking closely you will see that plants be- longing to this family have blossoms with a sort of lip on one side, something like the nose to a pitcher. Many of this family, such as Catnip, Motherwort, FiGWORT, Gill- ov
. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. s. SAG-E {Salvia)—'d geneial name for white sage, bkick sage, and button sage, in California. These honey-bearing plants also belong to the Lahiatce., or mint family. The word "? labiate'' means lip-shaped; and on looking closely you will see that plants be- longing to this family have blossoms with a sort of lip on one side, something like the nose to a pitcher. Many of this family, such as Catnip, Motherwort, FiGWORT, Gill- ovER-TnE-GROUND,have already been men- tioned as honey - plants, and the number might be extended almost indefinitely. The sage we have particularly to do with is the white mountain sage of California; and we do not know that it would be far out of the way to call this one of the most impor- tant honey-plants in the world. The crops of honey secured from it within the past 25 years have been so immense that fine sage honey is now offered for sale in almost all the principal cities of the world, and a nice sample of well-ripened California honey, whether comb or extracted, is enough to call forth exclamations of surprise and deli-1 ( from any one Avho thinks enough of son ? thing good to eat, and pleasant to the taste, to commit himself so far. We well remej; ber the first taste we had of the mouutain-. A OF CALIFORNIA BUTTON 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 Root, A. I. (Amos Ives), 1839-1923; Root, E. R. (Ernest Rob), 1862-1953. Medina, Ohio, The A. I. Root Company
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