. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1892. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. 390 The Canadian Horticulturist. skin of a sound grape. This fallacy is one that the bee-keepers of this country have been obliged to fight for years and years, and yet it has many times been proved to be wrong. Mr. Harris : I do not believe that the honey bee injures the grape, that is the sound grape.—Minn. Hort. Soc, 1892. NATIVE BEE N Michigan there is a very large number of plants which furnish a good quality of honey. If the species is abun- dant in any region, it usually becomes known to the apiaris
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1892. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. 390 The Canadian Horticulturist. skin of a sound grape. This fallacy is one that the bee-keepers of this country have been obliged to fight for years and years, and yet it has many times been proved to be wrong. Mr. Harris : I do not believe that the honey bee injures the grape, that is the sound grape.—Minn. Hort. Soc, 1892. NATIVE BEE N Michigan there is a very large number of plants which furnish a good quality of honey. If the species is abun- dant in any region, it usually becomes known to the apiarist as a good bee plant ; if not abundant it very likely fails to attract attention. A plant may be rare or important in one region and abundant in another. In autumn, asters and golden rods are known as excellent bee plants, because some few of the many species in the State are plentiful in nearly every neighborhood, but the same sorts of asters or golden rods do not everywhere throughout the State furnish a great amount of honey. As a rule, those plants which produce odor- ous or showy fiowers afford honey and will be visited by honey bees, unless the flower is of a shape which makes it impossible for the bee to reach the food. Probably in the State there are of native plants, introduced weeds and field crops, a thousand species which furnish excellent food for bees This is nearly one hundred times as many as the beekeeper has in mind, unless he ha given unusual attention to the subject. Our open, low lands furnish a large proportion of the bee pasture ; the forests some ; the weeds and some of the field, garden, and orchard crops a fair amount. Extremely dry, or very wet weather, are both unfavorable to the yield of honey. Drainage of the swamps and the clearing of waste places are unfavorable to the interests of the bee- keeper. As the botanist now looks at the subject, colors and odors are mere advertisements to call the attention of insects to the rich supplies of food in
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