Matthew writes:
> Thank you for such an informative posting. It certainly answers the question that I pitched to this list a few weeks ago. Excellent!

Sorry we didn't get on it right away, glad to be of use. While on the topic of basswood, here's a blast from the past:

> Basswood Failure, Etc. BY C. DAVENPORT

> ANOTHER honey season is a matter of history. The crop in this State was, on the whole, a light one. It was, however, very irregular. In some localities a fair crop was secured, in other places but a few miles distant it was nearly a failure. We had a great drouth during the summer, and locality formed an important part, with what little rain there was, for when we needed rain the most good showers would fall in some places, and in others but a few miles away it would not rain for weeks. In my own locality white and alsike clover yielded well while they lasted, but it was so dry they did not remain in bloom long. Basswood was a total failure ; there were no blossoms, and it would be of great interest to me to know why. There were no frosts late enough in the spring to have injured the buds if they had started, and the dry weather had nothing to do with it, for there was plenty of moisture in the ground early in the season, at the time the buds should have formed. There were no insects that workt on the foliage, as has been the case some seasons before. The yield from basswood here seems to be coming more and more uncertain of late -- a matter to be regretted, for while the honey from this source is not equal in quality to that from clovers, there is nothing here in the North, at least, that bees can in the same length of time secure the quantity from that they can from basswood when it yields well. 

AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Dec. 6,1900

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