136 BEEKEEPING 



important honey plant unless it be in 

 parts of Michigan and Wisconsin. Sev- 

 eral years ago in Vilas County, Wiscon- 

 sin, I saw great forests of hard wood trees 

 in which there were a great many lindens. 

 At this time the hungry hordes of timber 

 companies were making inroads at a rapid 

 rate and this last outpost may be gone 

 to-day. The tree is of sufficient import 

 in honey production that the beekeeper 

 can well afford to take the time to plant 

 it along his roads and around his home. 

 It makes an admirable shade tree, blooms 

 at an early age, and as it grows older be- 

 comes an important pasturage factor in 

 the life of the bee. Ten trees, twenty 

 years old, ought to supply a colony of 

 bees with enough nectar to enable them to 

 store a considerable surplus of honey and 

 while some of us may not be here twenty 

 years hence it is pretty certain that some 

 one else may and it is possible too that 

 "some one else" may want to keep bees. 

 Another native tree that once yielded 



