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nectar during the most difficult season for the bees. The 

 following notes apply specially to Santa Monica: 



From a bee point of view, the Eucalyptus may be 

 divided into two classes those that flower but once a year 

 and those that flower more than once, or have a prolonged 

 blooming season. 



There are not many of the first type here. Eucalyptus 

 polyanthema is one of the few that blooms but once in the 

 year, as far as we have noticed. The variety of Eucalyp- 

 tus sideroxylon (generally sold as Eucalyptus leucoxylon) 

 with a lemon colored or white flower, is thus far a very 

 shy bloomer and consequently of little value for bee feed. 

 The pink flowered varieties, both with green or gray leaves, 

 have a prolonged season of blooming and for the most part 

 have two seasons, one commencing about the end of No- 

 vember and the other in May. Both the white and pink 

 flowered smooth barked Eucalyptus leucoxylon follow about 

 the same seasons, but while more profuse in the spring 

 flowering, have this shorter than Eucalyptus sideroxylon. 

 Bees frequent these flowers. The two principal varieties of 

 Eucalyptus amygdalina here, viz., var. regnans and var. 

 linearis or angostifolia are rarely out of bloom. The leaves 

 of this species are very strong odored of a pepperminty- 

 Eucalyptus smell, which, if it attaches to the flowers or 

 nectar, might give a flavor to the honey that would lessen 

 its value, or, on the other hand, insure the very fancy 

 London price recently current for honey claimed to have 

 been derived from Eucalyptus. 



Eucalyptus corynocalyx, the sugar gum, is certainly a 

 fine bee feed tree. Here it has two, and often three seasons; 

 one ot these commences in September or the end of August 

 and continues through November. In the warm September 



