214 Of the different Kinds of Honey. 
and is efteemed by many connoiffeurs the ve- 
ry beft of honey, (as it undoubtedly is as good. 
as any,) is of a flightly greenifh colour, and 1s 
likewife collected from white flowers. When 
candied, it fometimes confifts of fine white par- 
ticles, refembling {mall hail, intermixed with 
fome liquid honey, and is very beautiful. 
Heath produces a fine high-coloured honey, 
which looks alfo very beautiful in the virgin 
comb, fhining like gold through the pure tranf{- 
parent cells. The gentlemen and ladies about 
Newcaftle are very fond of this kind of honey in 
the combs. When run into pots and candied, 
it becomes all hard and griftly,—a {pecies 
of honey which is alfo greatly efteemed by 
many. 
‘There is another kind of honey, which is col- 
le€ted from all the above-mentioned flowers, 
and which, having been kept two or three years 
in the hive, is therefore called old honey. Some 
of that kind of honey will be very fine tafted, 
and pretty griftly when eat, but the greateft 
part of it, when itis run out of the combs, 
becomes in a few days thereafter thick and 
fmooth ; and is, on that account, fufpected, by 
people who are ignorant of the nature of ho- 
ney, to have been adulterated, and mixed up 
with 
