GOOD PLANTS OF RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION 77 
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 
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 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. 
