GOOD PLANTS OF RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION 



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The honey is said to be light in color 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 sage 



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



honey is secured elsew^here 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 logwood 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. 



