. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 408 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL December THE PALMETTOS OF FLORIDA The Palmettos Furnish the Finest Honey in Florida and in Favorable Seasons Yield Abundantly. Honey From this Source is Seldom Reported Outside of That State THE palmettos arc the mosl con - feature of the flora of the south half of Florida. The cabbage palmetto is a stately tree, while the saw or scrub palmetto grows more like the underbrush in northern for- ests. To the man accustomed to dense forests, the open, park-like growth of the palmettos hardly seems like woodland. The ilustration giv
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 408 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL December THE PALMETTOS OF FLORIDA The Palmettos Furnish the Finest Honey in Florida and in Favorable Seasons Yield Abundantly. Honey From this Source is Seldom Reported Outside of That State THE palmettos arc the mosl con - feature of the flora of the south half of Florida. The cabbage palmetto is a stately tree, while the saw or scrub palmetto grows more like the underbrush in northern for- ests. To the man accustomed to dense forests, the open, park-like growth of the palmettos hardly seems like woodland. The ilustration gives a good idea of the typical Florida landscape. This group of plants is not import- ant in America, outside of the State of Florida. A small area in lower Texas, about the mouth of the Rio Grande river, is covered by a species of palmetto closely resembling the cabbage palmetto, but it is thought to be a different species. An occasional tree is also found along the seacoast as far north as Charleston, S. C. They are to be found also as street trees in various southern cities along the gulf coast and in South Texas. The small saw palmetto (Se- rcnoa serrulata) also extends its range into Georgia and the Carolinas, in open pine woodlands. In Florida both forms are suffi- ciently abundant to furnish nectar in quantity worthy the attention of the commercial beekeeper. However, in too many localities there is little else available, so that the season between flows is too long to make beekeeping worth while. To take advantage of the palmetto flows and at the same time get good crops through the rest of the year, the late O. O. Poppleton praticed migratory beekeeping. His apiaries were moved several times during the year, so as to be near dif- ferent sources in the period of bloom. The great drawback to beekeeping in Florida is the lack of a sufficient variety of honey plants in one loca- tion support the bees profitably throughout the year. there are a few localities, of course,
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