Honey and Honey- Dew. 121 



Miss Apis is very particular about the 

 quality of her honey, and does not like to 

 mix up diflferent 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. 



