. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. 404 THB BEB-KEBPBR'S GUIDB ; on others they are all staminate, having no pistils. On the former, bees can g-ather only honey, on the latter only pollen. That the willow furnishes both honey and pollen is attested by the fact that I saw both kinds of trees, the pistillate and the staminate, thronged with bees the past season. Indeed, the willow furnishes abundant honey nearly every spring. Fig. Mesquite.—From Dept. of Agriculture, Judas Tree.—Original. Were bees numerous thus early, and were the weather propi- tious,
. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. 404 THB BEB-KEBPBR'S GUIDB ; on others they are all staminate, having no pistils. On the former, bees can g-ather only honey, on the latter only pollen. That the willow furnishes both honey and pollen is attested by the fact that I saw both kinds of trees, the pistillate and the staminate, thronged with bees the past season. Indeed, the willow furnishes abundant honey nearly every spring. Fig. Mesquite.—From Dept. of Agriculture, Judas Tree.—Original. Were bees numerous thus early, and were the weather propi- tious, the honey from willow would be very important. It is in stimulating breeding. The willow, too, from its elegant form and silvery foliage, is one of our finest shade-trees. It grows everywhere in the United States. The mesquite (Proso- pis juliflora), a shrub or tree of the bean family (Fig. 203), is exceedingly valuable for honey from Texas to Arizona. The honey is excellent in quality and very abundant. It blooms from April on to July. In the^south of Michigan, and thence southward to Ken- tucky, and even beyond, the Judas tree, or red-bud (Cercis canadensis), (Fig. 204), is not only worthy of cultivation as Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cook, Albert John, 1842-1916. Chicago. Ill. : George W. York & Co.
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