. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 124 April. 1916. American Hee Journal of a heavy yellow honey is stored an- nually. Honeybees show a preference for Solidaja^o lanceolata, or according to the 7th edition of Gray's Manual S. graminifoJia. The asters are freely visited by bees, but they are not common enough to vie with the goldenrods, neither do they secrete nectar as freely. Properly ripened and sealed aster honey is an excellent winter food, as scores of bee- keepers can testify; but if it is gath- ered so late that it has not time to ripen and is left unsealed it will very likely d
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 124 April. 1916. American Hee Journal of a heavy yellow honey is stored an- nually. Honeybees show a preference for Solidaja^o lanceolata, or according to the 7th edition of Gray's Manual S. graminifoJia. The asters are freely visited by bees, but they are not common enough to vie with the goldenrods, neither do they secrete nectar as freely. Properly ripened and sealed aster honey is an excellent winter food, as scores of bee- keepers can testify; but if it is gath- ered so late that it has not time to ripen and is left unsealed it will very likely deteriorate and prove injurious. But I have lost a colony of bees by feeding sugar syrup very late in the fall. It has been suggested that per- haps different species of aster yield very difTerent kinds of honey, but there are no grounds for such a supposition, on the contrary they are much alike just as in the case of the Fig. 5—Purple vetch. Violet-purple bee flow- ers, common in worn-out fields. The struc- ture of the flower is similar to that of the garden pea. The pollen is placed on the under side of the bee's body. After pol- lination the flowers bend downward and turn a dark purple. There are many other flowers be- sides those enumerated, which are more or less helpful to the beekeeper, as the fireweed, thistle, Spanish-needles, thoroughwort and many bee flowers belonging to the pea. mint and figwort families (Fig. 5), but the more impor- tant honey plants are believed to have been mentioned. The most promising method of improving the honey flora would seem to be the more general introduction of white sweet clover. Waldoboro, Maine. New England Beekeepers BY r. E. CRANE. LYONSVILLE, MASS . is a place of unusual interest to New England beekeepers, for here lived the elder \Vm. W. Cary some 70 years ago, al- ready an enterprising beekeeper, and here his son W. W. Cary, Jr., still lives. It was here that Rev. L. L. Langstrofh,. Please note that these images a
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