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Portulaca grandiflora Hook. Grown in experimental plats at Col- 

 lege Station. Honey yield good owing to the extended blooming 

 period from June till frost. Pollen is highly colored. 



Salt cedar. {Tamarix gallica L.) Common in the Gulf coast 

 country. Several trees cultivated at College Station bloom from 

 May to June. 



Fringed Poppy-mallow. [Callirhoe digitata Nutt.) A common 

 plant yielding honey and pollen in small quantities. An excellent 

 pollen plant at College Station. 



Spanish Apple. {Malvaviscus drummondii Torr. and Gray.) 

 Common along the Comal and Guadalupe rivers near New Braunfels. 

 Bees visit it, but in that section is not an important honey plant. 



Shrubby althea. (Hibiscus syriacus L.) An ornamental plant in 

 parks and gardens. Bees work busily on it, but the plants are few. 

 Yields honey and pollen; blooms from May and June to fall. 



Sida spinosa L. A common plant blooming during the summer. 

 Honey and pollen yield light, but valuable dui'ing dearth. 



Sida angustifolia Lam. In dry soils throughout southern Texas 

 blooming from spring to fall. Yields honey and pollen. 



Cotton. {Gossypium herhaceum L.) Yielding a strong steady 

 flow of white honey during the entire blooming period from June to 

 frost. The main source of honey throughout the cotton section. The 

 honey is furnished by nectar glands of leaves, bracts, blossoms and 

 bolls. 



American linden. {Tilia americana L.) Occurs sparingly through- 

 out Texas as far west as San Antonio. A heavy yielder of fine honey. 



Large-flowered caltrop. (Trihuliis cistoides L.) Mr. L. Scholl 

 reports this plant from Hunter as a good honey and pollen yielder, 

 but flowers close at noon. April to August. 



Greater Caltrop. (Kallstroemia maxima (h.) T. and Q.) Common 

 throughout southern and western Texas; a good honey and pollen 

 plant in time of dearth. 



Yellow wood sorrel. (Oxalis stricta L.) In open woodlands 

 throughout Texas, blooming during summer, but not abundant enough 

 to be important bee forage. 



Prickly ash. (Xanthoxylon clava-hercules L.) Known as tooth- 

 ache tree and sea-ash. A common shrub in woodland prairies, bloom- 

 ing April 15 to June. A good honey and pollen plant. 



Hop tree. (Ptelia trifoliata L.) In low woodlands throughout 

 southern and western Texas. Where abundant the plant is a good 

 honey yielder during favorable seasons. May to July. 



Hardy orange. (Citrus trifoliata L.) Until recently this plant 



