for stimulating early brood rearing; also pollen. February, April.*

"From the Nueces to the Rio Grande and west to Devil's River. Common on the bluffs of the lower Rio Grande." (Coulter). On dry and rocky hills in solid masses generally. Honey yield very heavy and main surplus in Southwest Texas; fine quality, white; considered the best honey in Texas in quality. April.*

"In dry or rocky soil, Texas, New Mexico." (Small). Floresville: All over Southwest Texas. Honey yield very abundant, a main yielder of fine quality honey. April.*

"Throughout Texas south of the Colorado and west to El Paso." (Coulter). Hunter: in brushy woodlands; honey yield is heavy, of fine quality, but plants not abundant. April and May.*

"From the Guadalupe to the lower Rio Grande and west to the Pecos." (Coulter). Very plentiful throughout Southwest Texas, on prairies. Honey yield of no importance. Bees gather pollen from it occasionally in early summer.*

Hunter: in orchards and escaped. Honey yield good with "fruit bloom." Helps to build up colonies of bees. February.*

College Station: planted on campus. Honey yield good but of short duration. March.*

"In waste places and cultivated grounds throughout the United States." (Small). Cultivated in orchards; honey yield good; with "fruit bloom" builds up colonies in spring. January to April.*

Cultivated ornamental shrub. Honey yield unimportant; bees sometimes busy on it. March.*

"A Southern blackberry, apparently common in Eastern, Southern and Western Texas." (Coulter). Common wild, little cultivated; bees on it busy; honey and pollen. February, April.*

Cultivated widely; honey yield unimportant; pollen gathered from it sometimes. Spring, summer and fall.*

Cultivated in orchards; honey yield early; helps in brood rearing; good where abundant. March, April.*

A much cultivated fruit tree, important for early honey and pollen. February, March.*

"A species of the Gulf States and extending to the lower Colorado in Texas." (Coulter). In woodlands and creeks; good for honey and pollen. April.*

"A species of the Gulf States and extending to the lower Colorado in Texas."