. Manual of the apiary. Bees. 238 MANUAL OP THE APIART. cannot always rightly estimate by appearances alone. It is a very valuable plant to be scattered in waste places. That beautiful and valuable honey plant, from Minnesota, Colorado, and the Rocky Mountains, cleome, or the Rocky Mountain bee-plant, Cleome integrifolia (Pig. 96), if self- sown, or sown early in spring, blooms by the middle of July, and lasts for long weeks. Nor can anything be more gay than these brilliant flowers, alive with bees all through the long fall. This should be planted in fall or spring, in drills two feet apart,
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. Manual of the apiary. Bees. 238 MANUAL OP THE APIART. cannot always rightly estimate by appearances alone. It is a very valuable plant to be scattered in waste places. That beautiful and valuable honey plant, from Minnesota, Colorado, and the Rocky Mountains, cleome, or the Rocky Mountain bee-plant, Cleome integrifolia (Pig. 96), if self- sown, or sown early in spring, blooms by the middle of July, and lasts for long weeks. Nor can anything be more gay than these brilliant flowers, alive with bees all through the long fall. This should be planted in fall or spring, in drills two feet apart, the plants six inches apart in the drills. The seeds, which grow in pods, are very numerous, and are said to be valuable for chickens. Now, too, commence to bloom the numerous Eupatoriums, or bonesets, or thoroughworts Fig. 94:.—Figwort.. (Fig. 97), which fill the marshes of our country, and the hives as well, with their rich golden nectar—precursors of that pro- fusion of bloom of this composite order, whose many species are even now budding in preparation for the sea of flowers which will deck the marsh-lands of August and September. Wild bergamot, too, Monarda flstulosa, which, like the thistles, is of importance to the apiarist, blooms in July. The little shrub of our marshes, appropriately named but- ton-bush, Cephalanthus occidentalism (^ig- 95), also shares the attention of the bees with the linden ; while apiarists. 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 work.. Cook, Albert John, 1842-1916. Chicago, Ill. , T. G. Newman