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AMERICAN HONEY PLANTS 



across and an inch through at the butt. It is an annual, and no stock 

 will eat it." — M. S. Hubbell, Helena, Okla. American Bee Journal. 

 Cleomella is found from Nebraska to Utah and south to Texas. 



CLETHRA, see Pepperbush. 

 CLIMBING MILKWEED, see Bluevine. 



CLOVER (Trifolium). 



The clovers are by far the most important American honey plants. 

 If we include the closely related alfalfa and sweet clover, they probably 

 are the source of more surplus honey than all the other plants together. 



Fig 41. The Christmas berry, or California holly. 



They are to be found in nearly every part of America and yield nectar 

 more freely than most plants. The quality of clover honey is of the best 

 and in quantity of yield it ranks high, under favorable conditions. If the 

 whole group was to be removed, honey production as a commercial propo- 

 sition would decline to a very large degree. 



Clover seems to yield most heavily in the northern part of its range 

 and gradually declines southward. White clover is the most important 

 of the group. Alsike is quite as valuable where equally abundant. The 

 corolla tubes of red clover are usually too deep for the honeybee to reach 

 the nectar, but occasionally some honey is secured from this source. (See 

 Red Clover). Each of the clovers is considered separately. (See White 

 Clover, Alsike, etc.) 



