HONEYBEES AND HONEY PBODXJOTION. 55 



The basswood (linden, Linn.) tree, found native in our for- 

 ests and planted extensively as an ornamental and shade 

 tree, which furnishes a honey of fine quahty when well 

 ripened, and of superlative quality in its frequent blend 

 with white clover, grows in much the same region as the 

 latter, except that it does not extend so far to the south- 

 ward, being fotmd native south of the latitude of Pennsyl- 

 vania only as a rule at the higher levels and as far south as 

 North Carolina only in the northern coves of the mountains. 



Other principal types of honey produced in the white 

 clover belt are, in relative order of total production, as 

 follows : 



Buckwheat, a dark honey of rather strong flavor, much 

 esteemed by those famiUar with it, but having practically 

 no market as a table honey outside of the buckwheat- 

 growing sections of New York and other Northern States 

 and the Appalachian region. 



Goldenrod, from a very widespread plant, a highly fla- 

 vored honey with a beautiful golden color, rated as one of 

 the finest of fall honeys, but too rich for many who prefer 

 delicate flavors. 



Heartsease honey, from the weed, not the violet, of that 

 name, important in the central com States, and to a lesser 

 extent in the States east. When produced pure, it is a white 

 or light amber honey of handsome appearance, but of a flavor 

 that wins it no favor outside of the area of its production. 

 Where a constituent of mixed honeys and in not too great 

 proportion it is not objectionable, but rather pleasing. 



Aster, the almost universal fall honey, obtained from the 

 common roadside wild aster, a strong amber or dark honey 

 rarely used except for cooking. 



Spanish needle, a light golden honey with a distinctive 

 flavor, a very good type and considered superior by many, 

 obtained in considerable quantities during late August and 

 throughout September from the heavy growth of this weed 

 in swamps and along the water courses, in much the same 

 territory as heartsease. 



Black locust, a very good Ught honey from the familiar 

 leguminous tree so favorably known as the source of durable 

 fence posts, which, during the month of May and often too 



