Archive image from page 314 of The illustrated Australasian bee manual. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the 'New Zealand bee manual' greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten CUbiodiversity1228471 Year: 1886 ( BEE MANUAL. 295 own experience in the Thames and Waikato districts, some thirty miles south of Auckhmd. Here the dawn of the honey season opens with the willows and early flowering peaches. These blossom about the beginning of September, and enable the bees very quickly to repleni
Archive image from page 314 of The illustrated Australasian bee manual. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the 'New Zealand bee manual' greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten CUbiodiversity1228471 Year: 1886 ( BEE MANUAL. 295 own experience in the Thames and Waikato districts, some thirty miles south of Auckhmd. Here the dawn of the honey season opens with the willows and early flowering peaches. These blossom about the beginning of September, and enable the bees very quickly to replenish the stores of honey, at this time nearly exhausted. Then follow other fruit trees, dandelions, daisies, hawthorn, wild rose, some native trees, &c., and the honey season may be said to have fully commenced in October, when clover begins to blossom, and lasts without cessation, in a fairly good season, GIANT MIGNONETTE-(iJeseda gigantea). till near the latter end of February, when the hot dry weather causes a break, which lasts till the rains commence again (usually in the latter part of March) ; when, if the weather is showery, a considerable amount of honey will be gathered from different sources through the latter part of March, April, and a part of May.
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