. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 130 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Apri or '77 that I began to write for the press. Some time in 1877, when a student of the University of California, I re- ceived a clipping from a Los Angeles paper asserting that the flowers of a certain variety of Eucalyptus in or near that city were so poisonous to bees that thousands of them were found dead beneath the branches of the tree. The said clipping was re- ferred to me by Mr. E. J. Wickson, the editor of the Pacific Rural Press. a gentleman who shortly afterward became one of the professors of the University of C
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 130 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Apri or '77 that I began to write for the press. Some time in 1877, when a student of the University of California, I re- ceived a clipping from a Los Angeles paper asserting that the flowers of a certain variety of Eucalyptus in or near that city were so poisonous to bees that thousands of them were found dead beneath the branches of the tree. The said clipping was re- ferred to me by Mr. E. J. Wickson, the editor of the Pacific Rural Press. a gentleman who shortly afterward became one of the professors of the University of California, and who is, I believe, still connected with the Agricultural Department of the Uni- versity. I was asked to write what I knew upon the matter. My reply was that I had never known bees be- ing injured by quaffing the nectar of any variety of the tree in question; that I never saw any bees that were destroyed by gathering nectar or pollen from any tree or plant what- ever. The Los Angeles paper, through its correspondent, N. Levering, still per- sisted that bees were killed by such nectar, at least, by this particular tree. However, some forty years have since passed and the Eucalypti "tribe" are considered the most valu- able honey-secreting trees intro- duced into California; they still fill a void that would otherwise be large- ly nectarless, thus keeping many a colony from starving during Novem- ber and the winter months. The Yucca Upon the mountains and in some of the desert places through the lower or southern counties of Cali- fornia, one meets the Yucca (Hes- peroyucca whipplei) and at times speci- mens thereof are pretty and interest- ing, especially when they are in bloom, usually during June and July. Besides its native haunts, it may be occasionally seen in public parks and gardens in various portions of the State. The nectar is attractive to bees and, where it grows numerously, a good grade of light honey is se- cured from it. Something over a qu
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