Pafturage of Bees. 21 
reluctance,) to fatisfy myfelf onthat point; when 
I found the fineft 4/04 of honey in her bladder, 
exactly of the fame tafte, colour and {mell, 
with that honey which is ufually colle&ted 
from fuch flowers as the bee was working u- 
pon; for thofe bees which I picked off the 
white clover, contained fine white tranfpar- 
rent honey, while fuch as were taken from 
heath, produced it of a high colour; and as 
the honey had not been above a minute in 
their bladders, it certainly could not undergo 
any change in fo fhort a fpace of time. But 
even allowing the bees their own ufual time to 
collect, carry home, and depofit the honey in 
their cells, the time will be found not to ex- 
ceed five minutes; and yet the honey is, at 
this period, in as great perfection, nay, rather 
better, if there is any difference, than at any 
time thereafter: for it is proved by experience, 
and acknowledged by all connioffeurs in apia- 
ries, thatthe younger thehoney and honey-comb 
are, they are fo much the fairer and better ; 
as, when they remain for fome time in the 
hive, the combs, by the breath of the bees, gra- 
dually become of a darker colour, and the 
honey becomes neither fo fair nor fo tran{par- 
7 rent, 
