. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 13. CONDUCTED BY Greenville, Texas. The Honey-Plants of Northern Texas, and How to Utilize Them. jRead at the late Texas State Convention BY DR. WM. K. HOWARD. (Continued from page 813.) Flaxweed {biglovia virgata, D. C.) blooms about the first of August, con- tinuing until frost, but is not visited by the bees until later, when other and bet- ter flowers are scarce ; the honey is bit- ter and pungent. We have another plant of the genus solidago, or a closely allied genus, which I have never taken tidie to determine satisfactoril
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 13. CONDUCTED BY Greenville, Texas. The Honey-Plants of Northern Texas, and How to Utilize Them. jRead at the late Texas State Convention BY DR. WM. K. HOWARD. (Continued from page 813.) Flaxweed {biglovia virgata, D. C.) blooms about the first of August, con- tinuing until frost, but is not visited by the bees until later, when other and bet- ter flowers are scarce ; the honey is bit- ter and pungent. We have another plant of the genus solidago, or a closely allied genus, which I have never taken tidie to determine satisfactorily, which blooms in August, and furnishes an inexhaustible quantity of honey until frost. There are hun- dreds of acres of this plant in this coun- try, common in old, vacant fields and waste-places, etc. With a favorable fall bees will get very sick from it. The honey is so pungent and fiery that no one can eat it; even the smallest portion of it will create a burning sensation in the mouth, throat and stomach. I have seen persons who have eaten not more than a few ounces, and it caused such distress that vomiting followed by vio- lent purging, lasting several hours, was the sequel ; persons who could eat pure honey with impunity, and were fond of it, too. Such is the character of this honey that most persons have supposed it to come from pepperwood {), the taste of which is very much like prickly-ash (xanthoxyhum). The honey is of fine appearance, being as trans- parent as water, but of medium consis- tency, and slow to granulate. It will remain liquid from six to ten months, and may be readily extracted from the combs after twelve months. I know of no method by which the pun- gency may be removed; I have tried boiling to no purpose. I made some ex- periments during the years 1880, 1881 and 1882, testing the abundance of this flow. I extracted all of the available honey in my yards during the last week in July in 1880 and 1881. I removed all the combs containing seale
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