140 BEEKEEPING 



Florida but reaches its best development 

 in the southern part of its range where it 

 is called ''gall berry." It sounds like a 

 strange name for a honey-producing plant, 

 but nevertheless the product is said to be 

 entirely free from any tinge of bitter. It 

 is a honey with which I am not personally 

 familiar but I am told that it is of fine 

 quality and that it is produced in tremen- 

 dous quantities. Unfortunately beekeep- 

 ing in many parts of the South is in a 

 very backward state and comparatively 

 few really modern apiaries exist — cer- 

 tainly not nearly so many as the flora of 

 the country could seem to justify. 



In many parts of the country the "fall 

 flow" is the important source of the com- 

 mercial honey crop. In these sections the 

 beekeeper must manage his colonies in 

 such a way as to have them at their max- 

 imum strength just at the time when this 

 flow is to be harvested. In such a dis- 

 trict it would be the height of folly to 

 build up strong colonies in the spring and 



