Honey and Honey-Dew. 121 
Miss Apis is very particular about the 
quality of her honey, and does not like to 
mix up different kinds. If she starts out 
to gather white clover honey, she will visit 
the clover fields all day, and for many days, 
and pass by other flowers, rather than mix 
their nectar with the clover nectar. 
White clover honey is delicate and deli- 
cious, and bees are very fond of visiting 
the white clover heads. Honey-bees do 
not gather much honey from the red clover, 
because the little flower tubes are too long 
for their tongues, and generally they cannot 
reach the nectar. 
Bumble-bees love the red clover, but 
you shall hear a story about that later. 
Sweet clover yields good honey, and where 
it grows the bees gather a great deal from it. 
The fragrant flowers of the basswood 
are great favorites with the bees, and when 
a basswood tree is in bloom, it sometimes 
sounds like an enormous bee-hive, there 
are so many bees after its honey. 
