. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. FIG. 1.—SOLIDAGO PUBERULA. (Photograph by Sladen.) matic conditions. Some of our most valuable honey plants have been re- ported as producing no nectar when introduced into Australia. It is very probable that when we have studied the matter carefully we will find that the same species of gol- denrod varies as much in its nectar secretion under dififerent conditions as we know to be the case with al- falfa. I am greatly indebted to Mr. John H. Lovell for notes on the behavior of goldenrods in New England and for several of the photographs which accompa
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. FIG. 1.—SOLIDAGO PUBERULA. (Photograph by Sladen.) matic conditions. Some of our most valuable honey plants have been re- ported as producing no nectar when introduced into Australia. It is very probable that when we have studied the matter carefully we will find that the same species of gol- denrod varies as much in its nectar secretion under dififerent conditions as we know to be the case with al- falfa. I am greatly indebted to Mr. John H. Lovell for notes on the behavior of goldenrods in New England and for several of the photographs which accompany this article. Mr. F. W. L. Sladen, the Dominion apiarist, has kindly furnished similar information about these plants in Canada and also photographs of the species which are most valuable there. Without the assistance of these two, this article would have been impossible. It is un- fortunate that similar information is not available from all sections of the country. Lovell is of the opinion that all spe- cies of goldenrods secrete nectar in some localities. This is quite proba-. FIG. 2.—SOLIDAGO SQUARROSA. (Photograph by Sladen.) ble, although there is very little honey from goldenrod in Iowa from any species. Along the upper Mississippi, in the northeastern counties, a few beekeepers report goldenrod. In other sections of the state beekeepers report that they have never seen a bee on the plant. Dr. L. H. Pammel, botanist at the State Experiment Sta- tion, reports nine species of golden- rods common to this state. He lists S. serotina, S. canadensis, and S. graminifolia, as furnishing some honey here. If Lovell is right about all species yielding nectar under some conditions, then all are of interest to the beekeeper, and only the question remains of learning the conditions under which each species develops most favorably. If all do not yield nectar it is important that we learn to distinguish between the species which are valuable honey plants and. those which are troub
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