. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. SAGE. 390 SAGE. sage honey. Mr. Langstroth was visiting us at the time, and his exclamations were much like our own, only that he declared it was al- most identical in flavor with the famed hon- ey of Hymettus, of which he had received a sample some years before. Well, this honey of Hymettus,which has been celebrated both in poetry and prose for ages past, is gath- ered from mountain thyme, and the bot- any tells us that thyme and sa
. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. SAGE. 390 SAGE. sage honey. Mr. Langstroth was visiting us at the time, and his exclamations were much like our own, only that he declared it was al- most identical in flavor with the famed hon- ey of Hymettus, of which he had received a sample some years before. Well, this honey of Hymettus,which has been celebrated both in poetry and prose for ages past, is gath- ered from mountain thyme, and the bot- any tells us that thyme and sage not only be- long to the same family, but are closely re- lated. Therefore it is nothing strange if Mr. Langstroth was right in declaring our California honey to be almost if not quite identical in flavor with the honey of Hymet- tus. The California sages grow along the sides of the mountains, and blossom success- ively as the season advances; that is, the bees first commence work on them in the val- leys, and then gradually fly higher up, as the blossoms open on the mountain-side, giving them a much longer season than we have in regions not mountainous. The late John H. Martin, who was then traveling in California, had this to say of the mountain sages. The manner in which the bee has learned how to open the trap- door is particularly interesting. The first sage to come into tolossom is tiiat vari- ously called black sag-e, button sage, and boiled sage. Upon tliese buttons, or bolls, the little llow- er-tube appears, and is much lilie the flower-tube in the rod-clover blossom. Flowers develop from the outer edge of the button for several weeks. The bush is about five feet in height, bearing a large number of stalks, with several buttons to the stalk, the largest one being a little over an inch in diameter, and diminishing in size toward the tip of the stalk. A tiny drop of nectar can be squeezed from the little tube, just as we can squeeze it from the tube of red clover. Wh
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