Fig. 95 — Cabbage Palmetto (Sabal Palmetto). Flower-cluster. (Florida Photo. Concern.)

Fig. 95 — Cabbage Palmetto (Sabal Palmetto). Flower-cluster. (Florida Photo. Concern.)

But year in and year out there is no more reliable honey plant in Florida than the scrub palmetto. (Fig. 96.)

It begins to bloom at Fort Myers and Miami in April, and farther north in May. The small, white, stalkless, fragrant flowers are home in a great, many-branched flower-cluster, which is 2 to 4 feet in length. Too much rain during the