. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. VOL. LXI—NO. 9 HAMILTON, ILL., SEPTEMBER, 1921 MONTHLY, $ A YEAR HONEY AREAS OF TEXAS Notes on the Principal Regions of the Lone Star State and Its Nectar-Bearing Flora—By H. B. Parks THE flora of the State of Texas has been studied quite exten- sively. Published articles give the distribution of several of the ma- jor honey plants. No general ac- count, however, has been printed. The State is so large that it embraces almost every class of flora. In the eastern part of the State the Missis- sippi flora is present. Beech, maple, linden, Virginia p
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. VOL. LXI—NO. 9 HAMILTON, ILL., SEPTEMBER, 1921 MONTHLY, $ A YEAR HONEY AREAS OF TEXAS Notes on the Principal Regions of the Lone Star State and Its Nectar-Bearing Flora—By H. B. Parks THE flora of the State of Texas has been studied quite exten- sively. Published articles give the distribution of several of the ma- jor honey plants. No general ac- count, however, has been printed. The State is so large that it embraces almost every class of flora. In the eastern part of the State the Missis- sippi flora is present. Beech, maple, linden, Virginia persimmon and oth- ers, give an eastern appearance to the forests. The southeastern part has the pine, palmetto, cypress and many other plants common to the southeast- ern pai-t of the United States. Central Texas possesses a flora all its own. The high lands of the west have the flora common to the Great Plains counti-y. Southwest Texas is Mexican in its plant life. The lower Rio Grande Valley is almost tropical. Texas, west of the Pecos River, is mountain and desert. Yucca and cac- tus are the more prominent plants. The State' is naturally divided into several plant associations, the boun- daries of which follow geological lines. The most of the State is new. geologically speaking. The great glacier did not touch this State, and little has occurred to obliterate for- mation boundaries. Thus the transi- tion zone is very narrow, even in the case of the carboniferous and ar- chaean. In fact, these zones are rare- ly over a few hundred feet wide. In this connection it is interesting to note that many plants are rapidly mi- grating to new locations under the influences of agriculture. Mesquite and retama are the best examples. Great areas that a few years ago were grassy plains are now covered with a dense growth of these shrubs. Post oaks are rapidly invading the coast prairies. These are cases of forestation rather than reforesta- tion. Each of these natural divisions con- t
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