228 VARIETIES AND CLARIFICATION OF HONEY. 
quantity of a strong acid, such as nitric acid, to dissolve the 
oxide of iron, as Prussian blue is not soluble in the acid, it 
remains displaying its strikingly beautiful and characteristic 
blue colour.* — Pharm. Journ. 
ART. LXV. — ON THE VARIETIES AND CLARIFICATION OF 
HONEY. 
By Otto Kohnke. 
1. Varieties. — It is well known that raw honey varies 
in its properties according to the nature of the vegetation 
from which the bees have gathered their food ; according as 
the honey is obtained from cultivated or wild bees; accord- 
ing to the method and attention used in separating it from 
the wax, as well as according to the age of the honey and 
the manner of preserving it. 
The honey of young bees is in general lighter coloured 
and more agreeable than that of old bees, even when both 
kinds of bees gather their honey in the same district, except 
when the honey is gathered from the flowers of the buck- 
wheat, the common heath, and coniferous plants, in which 
case the honey of old bees may also be white. But young 
[*The above should have found a place in our pages long since. 
Messrs. Larocque and Lepage have each examined the power of the 
proposed antidote ; and agree that whilst it is no protection against the 
anhydrous poison, nor even certain when it is diluted with eight times 
its weight of water, — yet for the more dilute preparations, as that of our 
Pharmacopoeia cherry laurel water, etc., it is very serviceable, and to 
be relied on if given in time. — Ed. Am. Jour. Pharm.] 
