HONEYBEES AND HONEY PRODUCTION. 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 quaUty when well 
ripened, and of superlative quaUty 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 found 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 famihar 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 
dehcate flavors. 
Heartsease honey, from the weed, not the violet, of that 
name, important in the central corn States, and to a lesser 
extent in the States east. When produced pure, it is a white 
or hght 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 ^vith 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 light 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 
