_ Honey extracted from the leaves, is that which in the 
_ country is properly called honey-dew, (miellee.) This is 
produced by the transudation of the juices of plants and 
trees, through their leaves, in greater or less quantity, ac- 
cording to the species. This honey-dew nature dispenses 
more particularly and profusely in the two first months of 
spring and summer, that is to say, on the renewal of the 
sap in those two seasons. 
The honey extracted from the bodies of trees and plants, | 
through the bark, is principally derived from the juices of the 
second sap, which a kind of bugs, or vine fretters, (pucerons,) | 
pump out, for the benefit not only of bees, bat of a thousand 
other kinds of insects, by almost immediately ejecting what 
they suck out. ; a dee 
There are other insects, worse than the vine fretters, (pu- 
_ cerons,) for these never injure the trees in extracting their 
sap, such as hornets and wasps, which tear the bark off trees, 
‘to construct their combs and cells, from the wounds thus 
made, exudes a juice, from which bees derive a profit. 
Bees are also fond of the juice of fruits, which they eagerly 
seek after, whenever the hornets, wasps, earwigs, or birds, 
have broken the skin. ‘The humble raspberry, and the su- 
perb wild cherry tree (the acacia of Europe) offer also, in 
their fruits, a rich vintage for bees. 
These juices, at the time of extraction, are not properly 
called honey; but they soon become so, by their prompt fer- 
mentation in the first stomach of the bee. 
The observations of M. Boisier de Sauvage, of the Royal 
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Society of Sciences, at Montpelier, read at the sitting of - 
the 16th December, 1762, on this important subject, are 
most exactly true. ‘They absolutely develop the knowledge, 
previously unknown, of what the essence consisted, and 
the extent of its presence, in all classes of vegetables. I 
have, for many years, made it my particular study, to pur- 
sue and verify these observations on the origin of honey; 
and, in my observations, I have found them minutely 
exact, and strictly true. I have considered it my duty 
to communicate these sage observations of M. Boisier de 
Sauvage, in the next chapter. 5 
But the collection of honey, by bees, of which M. Val- 
mont de Bromare has given the history, deserves equally to 
be known. 'The opinion of Linnzus, reported by this sage, 
approaches very near to the discovery of M. Boisier de 
Sauvage, on the subject of ihe origin of honey. 
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