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thing to be dreamed about. The honey from 

 limes is not very well appreciated by the 

 general public, which is attracted by colour, pre- 

 ferring, as a rule, the light golden honey from 

 clover bloom, but to those who are connoisseurs, 

 the dark greenish product of the lime trees is 

 most delicious. 



In the North of England and Scotland the 

 heather is a great source of honey production. 

 It will yield nectar sometimes for nearly six weeks 

 in great abundance, but as it does not commence 

 blooming till August, and sometimes nearly the 

 end, the weather is very uncertain. Often it 

 is so cold that the bees are unable to build 

 comb, so that those who make a speciality of 

 getting heather honey, usually provide sections 

 which have been partly built during the clover 

 honeyflow, or else shallow combs which have had 

 the honey extracted from them. Heather honey 

 is different from all others, in that it is very thick 

 and dense. Fresh honey from other sources will 

 run as soon as a comb is cut into, but heather 

 honey will not do so. The apparatus by which 

 honey is thrown out of the comb by centrifugal 

 force, leaving them uninjured and useful for 

 another season, is no use at all with heather 

 combs, which have to be squeezed by the old- 

 fashioned method to get the honey out. 



