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AMERICAN HONEY PLANTS 



MANCHINEEL (Hippomane mancinella). 



The manchineel is an evergreen tree common to the beaches and 

 marshes of southern Florida and the Keys ; also found in the Bahamas 

 and Tropical America. It is very poisonous, and Britton credits it with 

 being the most poisonous of our American trees. He states that the milky 

 juice was used by the Caribs to poison their arrows. 



It yields nectar abundantly some seasons and is the source of surplus 

 honey. According to E. G. Baldwin, it blooms with pigeon cherry and 

 with dogwood, and the late O. O. Poppleton was the only man to at- 

 tempt to harvest a crop from the tree, growing as they do on the Keys, 

 where not easily accessible. He credits Poppleton with a yield of 28,000 

 pounds from the three together in 1910.— Gleanings, April 1, 1911. 



MANGROVE, see Black Mangrove. 



Fig. 90. Manzanita. 



MANITOBA— Honey Sources of. 



In eastern Manitoba the blueberry yields some surplus. The main 

 sources of nectar for the Province are white clover, alsike, fireweed, snow- 

 berry, perennial sow thistle, Canada thistle, wolfberry, mustard, golden- 

 rod, aster and numerous prairie and weed plants. To these are added 

 willows and maples as sources of early nectar.— F. W. L. Sladen. 



