As most of the plants here enumerated are now introduced into our gardens, they might be supposed to injure the British honey. Most probably, however, their proportion to the whole of the flowers in bloom is too small to produce any such inconvenience; whereas on their native continent they exclusively cover whole tracts of country. I cannot close this chapter on Bee-Pasturage, without adverting to what Linnæus has said of the _Fritillaria imperialis_ or _crown imperial_, and of the _Melianthus_ or _honey-flower_. Of the former, he observes that "no plant, melianthus alone excepted, abounds so much with honey, yet the bees do not collect it." Of the latter he remarks "that if it be shaken, whilst in flower, it distils a shower of nectar." This observation applies more particularly to the _Melianthus major_. And with respect to the _Fritillaria_, Dr. Evans says, "that the bees do sometimes visit it; and he thinks that they would do so oftener, but for the disagreeable fox-like smell that emanates from it." The _liquidambar_ and _liriodendrum_, or _tulip-tree_, both which are so ornamental, the former to our shrubberies and the latter to larger plantations, have been much extolled, as affording food for bees. The liquidambar bears bright saffron-coloured flowers, and highly perfumed and glossy leaves, and its whole rind exudes a fragrant gum. The liriodendrum is crowned with large bell-shaped blossoms, of every rainbow hue, which give it a very splendid appearance. CHAPTER V. HONEY-DEW.