. Gleanings in bee culture . is the land ofthe pine, and the southern half the land ofthe palm, the dotted areas will give in a morecomprehensive way the sections of the vari-ous honey-producing sources. Of the fifteenodd sources of possible surplus honey, aglance will reveal the truth of the claimthat the large majority of them are trees,not plants. Name any other State of whichthis can be said. These, considered singly and in their sea-sons, are about as follows: 1. Wild pennyroyal (of the mint family);grows in the southern half of the State,blossoming and Feb-ruary. The hon-ey is
. Gleanings in bee culture . is the land ofthe pine, and the southern half the land ofthe palm, the dotted areas will give in a morecomprehensive way the sections of the vari-ous honey-producing sources. Of the fifteenodd sources of possible surplus honey, aglance will reveal the truth of the claimthat the large majority of them are trees,not plants. Name any other State of whichthis can be said. These, considered singly and in their sea-sons, are about as follows: 1. Wild pennyroyal (of the mint family);grows in the southern half of the State,blossoming and Feb-ruary. The hon-ey is clear and ofgood llavor andbody, but theyield is slight, asa rule, nor does itfigure very largelyin the honey puton the is apt tobe uncertain whileit is in bloom. 2. Titi [Cyritla-ceae, or titi fam-ily). An ever-green that growsin pine swamps inthe northern por-tion of the State;gives surplus onlyin the extremenorthwest in theso-called WestFlorida. It bios- 1911 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 175 •*? H + + + +. soms mid-February. The honey is red, andstrong in flavor; useful more for bakersuses. As the weather is almost sure to beinclement, too, while it is in bloom, littlesurplus is usually secured from it. 3. Black tupelo (dogwood family). Samehabitat as the titi. Blossoms in early is clear, white, and good flavor, butthe body is rather thin. In consistency itis about like that from partridge pea or thecabbage palmetto. Bad weather, as for thetiti, makes the surplus from the black tu-pelo rather uncertain. 4. White tupelo {N^ussa, of the dogwoodfamily). Blooms in March in low swamplands. While ft is more or less general allover West Florida, it forms a factor in thehoney crop in only a rather limited dis-trict— the so-called tupelo belt. Thisis confined to the swamps lying along theAppalachicola and Chipola rivers, in Cal-houn Co. Here it is the main source of sur-plus, and from this section all the tupelohoney of commerce is shipped. Honeyfrom the w
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