AUGUST 1. 1915 



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S. COLOM. 



I.; \MA AXI) Gl'AVA AS HONE V TLA N T.S. 



The illustration shows a stalk of the guainti in full bloom. This tree 

 hii<! liart three periods of Moom this year. However, it is not the heaviest- 

 yielding tree, for we have the ?iiava, which ii. more abundant in nectar, and 

 whose flora lasts several months. Moreover, the honey is equal to that from 

 the guama or even better. Both of these trees are used for shade in coffee 

 plnntution':. 



Yaucu, Porto Rico. 



picked out as first '-lass in this list he 

 thoiiirht we had skipped several that be- 

 h)nired in the first rank. He would in- 

 clude maple, yellow jessamine, sweet fen- 

 nel, touch-me-not, all-root, buck-apple, live- 

 (,n!<. Mexican clover, stiinac, and titi. If 

 you have no personal knowledge of Flonda, 

 you may think he has included several very 

 poor Ihoney-plants. But remember that 

 whaX does well with you may be an abso- 

 lute failure here and vice versa. Back in 

 Indiana it was too cool for maple to give 

 any nectar wlien it bloomed. Down lierc 

 it starte the activity in the hive and last.s 

 more than a week in the s])iing. it is not 



strange that Mr. Clute 

 would put it in the 

 first rank. But ! hard- 

 ly felt tiiat it was a 

 " ringer," and conclud- 

 ed tliat 1 would stay 

 with the classification 

 that Mr. Wilder and J 

 had made. Thirteen 

 may i" some cases be 

 an unlucky number; 

 hut in this one it 

 means success to the 

 beekeeper who is for- 

 tunate enough to be lo- 

 cated in such a neigh- 

 borhood. It gives a 

 succession of bloom the 

 year round. What 

 more can one ask, es- 

 pecially when it in- 

 cludes such fine idio- 

 dueers as orange, saw 

 palmetto, Spanish 

 needle, tupelo, and the 

 myrtles'? 



Mr. Clute put up 

 liis sur])lns in Mason 

 quart jars as elmnk 

 honey, and brouglit 

 liome with him some 

 of it as samples. The 

 one that most interest- 

 ed me, because it was 

 new to me, its color so 

 ])eculiar, and its Havor 

 so fine, was mint 

 honey. From one of 

 the vards southeast of 

 Sanford he took 1800 

 ]>ounds of this kind. 

 Dividing 1800 by 30, 

 the number of colonies 

 in the yard, gives GO 

 as the average. For 

 a yard where there 

 had been lack of room 

 owing to the owner's being engaged in what 

 he thought more profitable business, si.xty 

 pounds is a good average. But friend Cluto 

 expects to more than double it this season, 

 I he ]irospeets for a heavy flow being the 

 ijesl ever known at this time. 



He has picked a location half a mile from 

 the present one, where this yard shoidd 

 gather from smart weed as well as from 

 mint. This last comes in and goes out 

 before the other begins, and this other yields 

 for months, beginning in July and staying 

 with us until late in November. There are 

 acres and acres of both mint and smart- 

 weed. Before smartweed fails, wild sun- 



