BEES AND TI TREE.
_ In an article on bee parturage some time ago in the settler we referred to A> abundance of ti-tree blossom in Bome of the North, and remarked that it wonld'V be interesting to learn from an apiarist the lionoy-produ'cing value of ti-tree, and whether it was a popular flower with bees, A correspondentnow writes:—" I think a month or two back you inquired whether bees were in the habit of visiting the titree, and whether the flower of *h«.ijn. digenous and universal planfcA-.*-- ;. food for the insects. The .oth' supplied I was in the country, I put (iy, n to an inteUigenf person, anf fl that further, north the bees aB --jjju habit of Bwarminc; amongsb- ere fa tha flowors, and that the flpw.ei| ne -:{{.^ e0 ; .charged with saccharinei YWre'-fully '' known that large t. jg - honey are procured in the bul 0 { ■ most arid'lt ia .^4rabl fl :amount,offeT busy.bee." ' wm > Ql W.tQ.tna
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1906, 4 February 1885, Page 2
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156BEES AND TI TREE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1906, 4 February 1885, Page 2
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