. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 152 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL May taste, and is highly flavored. The demand for this honey is so great that we cannot furnish our local markets, consequently very little is shipped from the southeast to other markets. "We have raised tons of this honey and have never seen a pound of the pure article, well ripened, that granulated. "It has been said that it is impossi- ble to overstock a good gallberry lo- cation. We do not know that this statement is true, but we have never heard of one being overstocked. We have had bees in a location where ther
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 152 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL May taste, and is highly flavored. The demand for this honey is so great that we cannot furnish our local markets, consequently very little is shipped from the southeast to other markets. "We have raised tons of this honey and have never seen a pound of the pure article, well ripened, that granulated. "It has been said that it is impossi- ble to overstock a good gallberry lo- cation. We do not know that this statement is true, but we have never heard of one being overstocked. We have had bees in a location where there were 362 colonies with the same result as with 100 colonies. Good gallberry locations are nearly numberless and large quantities of tlii- line honey are wasted every year in localities where there is not a bee to gather it. The gallberry should be included in the list of the best honey- ; J. J. Wilder, Cordele, Ga., Glean- ings, page 1200, September, 1907. The Banana Since the banana plant is little grown in the United States it is sel- dom mentioned as a honey plant, yet it secretes nectar very abundantly, and in countries where bananas are grown on a large scale it must be important to the beekeeper. We are showing herewith two illustrations, one of the plant in fruit and one showing the opening of the bloom. The following description of the possibilities of this plant is reprinted from page 83 of The American Bee Journal for 1880. and was written by a correspondent in Clifton Springs, Florida: "Recently noticing bees work- ing upon blossoms I concluded to examine them. To my surprise I found that each blossom had a sack on its under side, which con- tained several drops of nectar of the consistency and sweetness of thin syrup. This sack gradu- ally opens, allowing the contents to escape, unless appropriated by some insect. The blossom hangs in a position that rain cannot en- ter to dilute or wash out the nec- tar. Procuring a teaspoon I emp-. Please note t
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