. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. Borage and Mignonette. 355 bloom from the middle of June to the first of October. Their perfume scents the air for long distances, and the hum of bees that throng their flowers is like music to the apiarist's ear. The honey, too, is just exquisite. These clovers are biennial, not blooming the first season, and dying after they bloom the second season. They jDerpetu- ate themselves, however, through the seed so as to really Fig. 157. Fig. Mi£^7ionette, become perennial. A disagreeable fact is that they have little val
. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. Borage and Mignonette. 355 bloom from the middle of June to the first of October. Their perfume scents the air for long distances, and the hum of bees that throng their flowers is like music to the apiarist's ear. The honey, too, is just exquisite. These clovers are biennial, not blooming the first season, and dying after they bloom the second season. They jDerpetu- ate themselves, however, through the seed so as to really Fig. 157. Fig. Mi£^7ionette, become perennial. A disagreeable fact is that they have little value except for honey. The Bokhara clover is only a variety of the above, though Mr. D. A. Jones thinks it quite superior to the others. The other clovers—lucerne, yellow trefoil, scarlet tre- foil, and alfalfa—have not proved of any value with us, perhaps owing to locality. The alfalfa is valued highly for bees in Colorado and other western States. Borage, Borago officinalis (Fig. 157), an excellent bee plant, blooms from June till frost, and is visited by bees even in very rainy v^reather. It seems not to be a favorite, but is eagerly visited when all others fail to yield nectar. Mignonette, Reseda odorata (Fig. 15S), blooms from the. 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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