78 BEGINNER'S BEE BOOK 



The wide-awake beekeeper often avoids failure 

 by moving his bees to favorable pasturage. 



The same general principles will apply to 

 the Pacific Coast and the South, although the 

 list of plants will be different. In mild climates 

 where the bees can fly every week in the year, it 

 is important to have as many plants that bloom 

 during the season between honey flows as 

 possible. 



Ix CITIES AND TOWNS it is scldoni advisable 

 to keep a large number of colonies. Usually 

 there is sufficient pasture from sweet clover and 

 such weeds as motherwort along the canals and 

 railroads, white clover on the lawns and such 

 trees as basswood in the parks and along the 

 residence streets to support the bees. The 

 author often recei^'es letters from city dwellers 

 asking what crops they can plant in order to 

 keep bees. There seems to be a common im- 

 pression that it might be possible to grow 

 enough of some nectar-producing plant in the 



