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>Date:    Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:50:04 EST
>From:    Chris Wave <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: help for novelist in boston area
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>I am submitting this on behalf of a novelist friend whose main character has
>a few hives on a hobby farm outside of Boston. Any beekeepers in that area
>that could suggest believable plants honeybees would visit?



>What time of year? I live in Rhode Island, so the plants will be the
>same. In the spring, I think trees probably provide a lot of
>nectar-maple,linden, fruit trees such as apple, ornamental landscape
>trees such as cherry and plum, then  black locust, which is
>wonderful; native and cultivated blueberry, same for raspberry and
>blackberry; in fall, goldenrod and aster.
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