G. 



GALIiBERRV. {Hex ulnbra). Tliis 

 produces quite a quantity of honey in 

 the South, of light color and high quality. 

 It is a species of holly, which grows to the 

 size of a scrubby Inish. It is abundant in 

 North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, 



to yield a crop, for tlie reason it blooms in 

 M;iy, when the weather is settled and fine. 



The quality of the honey is excellent, be- 

 ing classed as white. Though a consider- 

 able quantity of it is actually produced in 

 the South, it is seldom shipped, on account 



GALLIJKIIKY, UK HOLLY. 



and adjacent States, and is growing more 

 plentiful, for it springs up wherever the 

 forests have been cut off. Mr. J. J. Wilder, 

 of Cordele, Ga., states that there are thou- 

 sands of gallberry bee-locations wholly un- 

 occupied at present, and that it seldom fails 



of an active local demand. Shakespeare 

 asks, " What's in a nameV' but in our opin- 

 ion " holly " would be a much better name 

 than '\gallbeiTy,'' which rather suggests 

 bitterness. " Holly honey" would sound ro- 

 mantic. 



