. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. s. ftAO-B iSah'ia). This plant also belongs to the great family of Luhintcr, or the mint family. Labiate means lip-shaped ; and if you look closely you will see that iilants 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 asC.XTN'IP, MOTnEKWOKT, FlUWOUT, (ilLL- <)VEK-THE-GUOUND,have already been men- tioned as honey - plants, and the number might be extended almost indefinitely. The sage we have particularl

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. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. s. ftAO-B iSah'ia). This plant also belongs to the great family of Luhintcr, or the mint family. Labiate means lip-shaped ; and if you look closely you will see that iilants 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 asC.XTN'IP, MOTnEKWOKT, FlUWOUT, (ilLL- <)VEK-THE-GUOUND, 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 ("alit'oriiia; and I do not know that I should be far out of the way in calling this one of the most impor- tant honey - plants in the world. The croi)s of honey secured from it within the past ten years have been so immense that the sage honey is now offered for sale in almost all the principal cities in the world, and a nice sami)le of well - ripened California Iioney, whether comb or extracted, is enough to call forth exclamations of surprise and delight from any one who thinks enough of some- thing good to eat, and pleasant to the taste, to commit himself so far. I well remem- ber the first taste I had of the mountain- sage honey. Mr. Langstroth was visiting me at the time, and his exclamations were much like my own, only that he declared it was al- most identical in flavor with the famed hon- ey of Ilymettus, of which he had received a sample some years ago. Well, this honey of Hymettus, which has been celebrated both in poetry and prose for ages past, was gath- ered from the mountain thyme, and the bot- any tells us that thyme and sage not only be- long to the same family, but are closely re- lated. Therefore it i.s nothing strange if Mr. Langstroth was right, in declaring our California honey to be almost if not quite identical in flavor with the honey of Ilymet- tus. This species of sage grows along the sides of the mounta