14 



AMERICAN HONEY PLANTS 



be added to the scanty food supply of the pioneer teachers of the Faith 

 as well as to supplj' the candles for the church services. By decree of 

 Church, onl}- beeswax candles can be used, and it is recorded that at Sitka, 



Fig. 



A gr 



of Alaska honey [ilaiit 



in 1816, no services could be held for six months because the supply of wax 

 ran out. As early as 1819 apiculture was taught in the church school and 

 was continued up to 1894. It would appear that the bees never flourished 

 and seldom swarmed. There are a number of records of new importations 

 to take the place of dead colonics. Very early a white clover was intro- 



