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AAIERICAN HONEY PLANTS 



in considerable numbers except in the vicinity of cities, wliere it is planted 

 freely for ornament. (Fig. 130.) 



It was at the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph that the writer 

 first saw the bees working on spruce to any extent. It was about June 12, 

 and the bees were humming through these trees in large numbers. There 



rce of honeydew. 



are hundreds of these trees about the college grounds, and considerable 

 honeydew seemed to be coming to the college apiary from this source. 

 Honeydew is seldom desirable, as it is usually of poor quality and only 

 serves to spoil the quality of good honey. However, this spruce honey- 

 dew seemed to be of rather better quality than is generally the case with 



