. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. GOLDENROD. Ill GOLDENROD. ferent varieties, ami it is coininon to find a lialf - dozen growing within a few rods. Its name describes it, so tliat almost any one should he able to identify it. If you see' autumn (lowers as yellow as gold, growing on the toil of tall rods, you may he 'i>retty , sure they belong to tliis family. The How- ers are very small, lint grow in great mass- es, sometimes in long racemes, and again in dense hunches. Tlie general characteristics j are such tliat, after a lit
. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. GOLDENROD. Ill GOLDENROD. ferent varieties, ami it is coininon to find a lialf - dozen growing within a few rods. Its name describes it, so tliat almost any one should he able to identify it. If you see' autumn (lowers as yellow as gold, growing on the toil of tall rods, you may he 'i>retty , sure they belong to tliis family. The How- ers are very small, lint grow in great mass- es, sometimes in long racemes, and again in dense hunches. Tlie general characteristics j are such tliat, after a little ])ractice. yon can readily identify any one of the family: but to assist you, we give the cuts. Bees are almost incessantly liumming over the (lowers in some localities; in others, they seem to pass them entirely unnoticed. I have passed it in localities where bee- keepers say they have never seen a bee on it at all. Bees are seen on it. occasionally, in our locality, but I do not think they get enougli honey from it. in2ordinary seasons, to make it perceptil)le in the hive. The Iioney is usually vei-y thick, and of a rich golden color, much like tlie blossoms. When first gathered, it lias, like tlie honey of most other fall (lowers, a rather ranli weedy ; smell and taste; but after it has thoroughly i ripened, it is rich and pleasant. On getting | the first taste of Goldenrod honey, one might think they would never like any oth- er; but like many other kinds, one soon tires ? of tlic peculiar aromatic flavor, and goes back to tlie clover honey as the great uni- versal staple to be used witli bread and but- ter. A patch of Goldenrod miglit liave a place on our honey-farm, and jierliaps, witli cultivation, it might do better and give a surer crop in all localities; but as it is only a common weed on our farms. I would hard- ly favor a general distrilmtion of the TIIUEE OF Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images tha
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