honey-yielding

The songbirds built their little nests within the overhanging foliage, and swarms of bees gave melodious voices to the summer air as they hovered over its honey-yielding flowers.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various

The bee is in the main an honest citizen; she prefers legitimate to illegitimate business; she is never an outlaw until her proper sources of supply fail; she will not touch honey as long as honey-yielding flowers can be found; she always prefers to go to the fountain-head, and dislikes to take her sweets at second hand.

Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879

There will be some honey-yielding flowers in nearly all places.

Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained 1842

Silkweed (_Asclepias Cornuti_) is also another honey-yielding perennial, but a singular fatality attends many bees while gathering it, that I never yet saw noticed.

Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained 1842

It is only visited when the more copious honey-yielding flowers are scarce.

Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained 1842

Mr. Kaden, one of the ablest contributors to the Bienenzeitung, in the number for December, 1852, noticing the communication from Dr. Radlkofer, says: "I also concur in the opinion that a district of country cannot be overstocked with bees; and that, however numerous the colonies, all can procure sufficient sustenance if the surrounding country contain honey-yielding plants and vegetables, in the usual degree.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852