. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 200 T'Mm mwMwmie:Mm wmm ^^^*^^^-^^^^^^^ which "takes the cake" for being where it is not wanted, and for its villainous taste and smell! The great, and best, and everywhere present in the hills and mountains, summer honey-producing bush, is the native poison-oak {Elms Californicns). It is in bloom in different exposui'es the season through, and its honey is considered equal to that of white clover. This short sketch will give some knowledge of the sources of honey here ; some of the mountain honey is very fine, thick, bright and s
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 200 T'Mm mwMwmie:Mm wmm ^^^*^^^-^^^^^^^ which "takes the cake" for being where it is not wanted, and for its villainous taste and smell! The great, and best, and everywhere present in the hills and mountains, summer honey-producing bush, is the native poison-oak {Elms Californicns). It is in bloom in different exposui'es the season through, and its honey is considered equal to that of white clover. This short sketch will give some knowledge of the sources of honey here ; some of the mountain honey is very fine, thick, bright and spicy— some being too highly flavored for some people, but greatly liked when one becomes accustomed to it. The difierent portions of the State have their own peculiar honey-plants, and nearly everywhere where there are hills and mountains, one can have suc- cess with bees, even high up on the Sierras, where they are covered with snow from 3 to 30 feet deep for six months. As I said in my former article, this region—directly north of San Fran- cisco 20 to 100 miles—was, before bee- diseases were introduced, grand for honey, and many bees were kept, pro- ducing a vast amount of honey with scarcely any care, like all good, new countries ; but these diseases came in. It being a region where nearly every- thing that one may wish to plant can be grown to perfection, with big monej- in everything, the people drop- ped bee-keeping for other things that made big money with little care; therefore but few bees are found here now, but the bee-countrj' is still here, all the same, and would be a grand success with the same skill and care given 1,0 bees everywhere in the East. The best locations are, as I said be- fore, in the cheap lands in the hills and mountains, with a deep canyon running into the hills east or west. Given a warm south and a cool north steep hillside, and a little perennial stream running in it—one has a per- fect bee-pasturage, and one of the most healthy and
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