MANGROVE. 



Ill the form of comb honey it is as handsome 

 as the world produces, but must be kept in a 

 dry warm room to prevent sweating and 

 blistering when cool weather comes. 



Its quality has been very highly extolled 

 by Messrs. Langstroth, Hasty, Ch. F. Muth, 

 and others, who have classed it as one of the 



/I A .^hree table honeys of America. 



(f3uU^ MARIGOLD (Gailardia pulchella). This 

 is found all over the United States, but, so 

 far as we know, it does not yield any great 

 amount of honey except in Texas, where it 

 is considered one of the main honey-produc- 

 ing plants. It begins to yield in May or 

 June, giving a rich golden honey. While it 

 is praised greatly by many connoisseurs in 

 the South, it would not rank well with clo- 

 ver and bassvvood of the North. Tlie comb 

 honey is golden yellow, not white. 



304 -v/, ^ ^ MESQUITE. 



MESQUITE [Prosapisglandulosa nudJuli- 

 flora). A leguminous. tree common in South- 

 ern Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, and 

 important in old Mexico, more particularly 

 in Sonora, where it grows to the dignity of 

 a fine timber tree in the valley of the Yaqui 

 lliver. Growing in a semi-arid country it is 

 always possible to get a yield of honey from 

 the mesquite except where it grows so far 

 north that the cold injures it. In Uvalde Co., 

 Texas, it is looked on by the bee-keepers as 

 a great tree for honey. There, it is little 

 more than a shrub ; but further south in 

 Mexico, around Monterey, it becomes of 

 far more economic importance. The Tex- 

 ans class tlie mesquite honey high ; but we 

 should be inclined to rate it second-class 

 among the ambers. There are several spe- 

 cit-s of mescjuite, but tlie foregoing is the 



MARIGOLD, GKEAT HONEY-PIvANTS OF TKXAS ; BUT FOUND AI<L OVER THE UNITED STATES. 



