GOOD PLANTS OF RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION 



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The honev is said to be light in coh:)r and of good quality. 



Good Plants of Restricted Distribution. — Some of the best 

 honey plants are restricted to a small area. The sages of Cali- 

 fornia have produced enormous crops of honey which have been 

 shipped to the eastern markets in large quantities, yet little 



Fig. 42. — The Rocky mountain bee plant is a valuable honey producer in Colorado. 



honey is secured elsewhere in the United States. The palmetto 

 and saw palmetto of Florida are important in that State, but 

 not found far removed from the southern half of that common- 

 wealth. The log-wood of Jamaica and the West Indies, and 

 to some extent in Florida, is of little interest to the bee-keepers 

 of other sections. Nearly every State has some honey plants that 

 are not of general interest because of the restricted range. 



