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packing a large number, and being able to use one-sized 
crate for all. ; 
Uncapping Machines : 
have been brought forward from time to time, but although 
the Author has devised a perfect apparatus for the purpose, 
and another very similar has been offered in America, none 
can so far be manufactured at a ‘price that will encourage 
the. apiarist to discard the ordinary honey knife. 
Exhibition of Extracted Honey. 
Extracted honey for show purposes must be bright and 
transparent, enclosed in a bottle having a screw cap, that 
the contents may be readily reached. The glass should 
be of the finest quality and the jar as narrow as possible. 
Clover and sainfoin honey, also that from yellow trefoil 
and bird’s-foot trefoil, is light.in colour; while that from 
dwarf-thistles is water-white, and has been disqualified by 
judges as sugar-fed, in their ignorance of this variety. 
Apple and pear trees provide little honey, but usually get 
the credit of produce. from other sources that are available 
at the same time, notably the trefoils, as well as the 
sycamore. Cherry blossom is much frequented by bees, 
while plums, apricots, nectarines and’ peaches, all produce 
light honey. , 
Wild thyme honey is rather dark; while that from 
heather is still darker, and of greater density, but these 
would be judged upon their respective merits. 
Honey from basswood trees would be classed separately, 
as also mountain sage, and that from the immense irrigated 
areas of the United States, where nothing but lucerne is 
grown. 
Although several countries may have certain varieties of 
honey plants in common, there are many that are not 
found in all, On the whole, however, flower honey is 
