. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1917 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 17 from Fig. 96, and appear in April and May. The panicles are sometimes a foot long. According to the notes furnished by Air. Buchanan the honey has a strong, distinctive flavor and is light amber in color. The wood is heavy and hard and yields a yellow dye. It is known also as Kentucky yellow wood and gopher wood. TULIP TREE OR YELLOW POl'LAR. The tulip tree, Liriodendron tidififera, also known as yellow poplar, is a very large tree often growing to a height of from 100 to 140 feet and a diameter of six to nine feet. It is
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1917 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 17 from Fig. 96, and appear in April and May. The panicles are sometimes a foot long. According to the notes furnished by Air. Buchanan the honey has a strong, distinctive flavor and is light amber in color. The wood is heavy and hard and yields a yellow dye. It is known also as Kentucky yellow wood and gopher wood. TULIP TREE OR YELLOW POl'LAR. The tulip tree, Liriodendron tidififera, also known as yellow poplar, is a very large tree often growing to a height of from 100 to 140 feet and a diameter of six to nine feet. It is found from southern New England west to south- ern Michigan and south to the Gulf States, east of the Mississippi. It is also found to a limited extent in south- eastern Missouri and eastern Arkansas. It blooms in April and May and pro- duces a light amber honey of good flavor. According to Buchanan the honey yield from this source is heavy and the tree is an important addition to the nectar-secreting flora of Tennessee and nearby States. The showy flowers are shown at Fig. 07. Atlantic, Iowa. CopyriKht: 1917. by Frank C. Pellett. Selling Honey by Automobile in Montana BY GEORGE W. YORK. THERE have been many ways of disposing of the honey produced by beekeepers, but perhaps not many have, as yet, used the automobile to the extent that Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sires have done the past year or two. They found that as Washington was a good bee-country, and beekeepers in- creased in numbers, it brought more honey on the market, for which a place must be found. As the smaller pro- ducers did not launch out, it was left for the larger ones, like the Sires brothers, to take hold and find a more extensive market. So they FIG. OF THE TULIP TREE They found it almost impossible to get grocers to handle honey to any advantage by pushing the sales along, and for several reasons. One was that they were not interested; another, they were not capable of explaining the many us
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