CHAPTER XIV 

 Surplus Honey Plants of the South. 



TO COVER this topic in the space of one chapter is ob- 

 viously impossible. However, no book about beekeeping 

 would be complete without some reference to honey 

 plants. The greatest difficulty in arranging the contents of this 

 chapter has been to get reliable information. This does not 

 mean that information which has been furnished the writer has 

 been unreliable, but that the scientific name of individual honey 

 plants was seldom known by the informants. That the task of 



Fig. 55. Blossoms of bitterweed in Tennessee. 

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