. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. SPIDER FLOWER. 238 SPIDER FLOWER. so far as I can judge. With the aid of a lamp I evaporated the nectar down to thick honey. Yoii caa see something of what the bees have to do. when I tell you that I liad in bulk, only about 1-5 part as much as when I commenced. You can also see that we now have some accurate figures with which to estimate the amount of honey which may be obtained from an acre of honey-plants. now MUCH HONEY WILL AN ACHE OF PLANTS YIELD? I think I visited with my spoon, four plant
. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. SPIDER FLOWER. 238 SPIDER FLOWER. so far as I can judge. With the aid of a lamp I evaporated the nectar down to thick honey. Yoii caa see something of what the bees have to do. when I tell you that I liad in bulk, only about 1-5 part as much as when I commenced. You can also see that we now have some accurate figures with which to estimate the amount of honey which may be obtained from an acre of honey-plants. now MUCH HONEY WILL AN ACHE OF PLANTS YIELD? I think I visited with my spoon, four plants. Perhaps half of the nectar was wasted, either by overflowing before I got there, or in my attempts to spoon it out. This will give a half-dram of nectar to each plant, each morn- ing. We shall set the plants 3 feet apart each way. At this rate, we have nearly .5000 plants to the acre, and they would yield every morning, perhaps 5 gallons of nectar, or one gallon of ripe honey. The plant has been in bloom in om- garden for the astonishing length of time of about 3 montlis; this would give, counting out bad weather, perhaps 60 gallons of honey, worth—say $ I have known a single colony of bees to gather a gallon of raw honey in a day, from the clover; but as the bees seldom work on the spider- plant after 9 or 10 o'clock in the morning, an acre might require 5 or 10 colonies, to go all over it every morning. How many acres of our best honey-plants will be required, to keep 100 colonies out of mischief y As the Simpson honey-plant yields honey all day long, the two would go very well together ; and I am inclined to think 5 acres of each [good soil, rvdl cultivated) would keep 100 colonies of bees busy, and out of mischief at least, dur- ing the whole of the fall months when bees have nothing to do. Bear in mind, my friends, tliat this plant yields by far the largest amoimt of honey of anything that we have ever come across, and that its time of blossoming extends to an u
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