. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. November, 1908. Amarican ^ee Journal trees are not going to be that plentiful; we may have some when the mam hon- ey-flow comes from sage and other choice sources, but our most common gum-trees bloom at times when other honey-secreting flowers are scarce. It appears to me we will never have any varieties in numerous numbers other than those we already have, although 100 varieties have been planted here for experiment. Now, none of them inter- fere with our choicest honey. And so far as I have been able to notice, I do not see that our California eucal
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. November, 1908. Amarican ^ee Journal trees are not going to be that plentiful; we may have some when the mam hon- ey-flow comes from sage and other choice sources, but our most common gum-trees bloom at times when other honey-secreting flowers are scarce. It appears to me we will never have any varieties in numerous numbers other than those we already have, although 100 varieties have been planted here for experiment. Now, none of them inter- fere with our choicest honey. And so far as I have been able to notice, I do not see that our California eucalyptus honey is a bad article. What makes the good Doctor thmk that this honey is going to be so dam- aging to the other honey? Don't think that because the peculiar climate of Australia causes the gum-trees there to produce a dark and strong-flavored honey, the same condition will prevail here. Of course it might be supposed that such would be the result. But I am not so pessimistical; I have not yet seen any honey injured by gum-tree honey, neither do I think it possible for any injury to be inflicted, as I have al- ready stated. So far as I have seen, what eucalyp- tus honey we have been able to get, has been pretty fair; seldom is it any darker than other honey produced at the same period of the year. But as for me, give me more gum-trees, even if the honey therefrom should be a little dark. We will be getting honey from where we had none before; besides, we will be growing valuable wood, for fuel and lumber. ?Uniting Colonies of Bees. I saw a man (can't call him a bee- keeper) once try to unite two colonies; he dumped the bees of a weak colony in front of another one that was almost equally deficient in strength, hoping that when the added bees entered the other hive he would have a rip-roaring colony. But he worked rather back- ward, for the two sets of bees got to fighting and the loss in dead bees made the colony no stronger than it was at first; it was worse in one resp
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