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Eunice Wonnacott suggests the labelling of honey to reveal floral sources.  I
am afraid my labels would mostly read "Don't Know" or "A bit of this and a
bit of that".  It may be possible to label accurately in areas of monoculture
or where bees are taken to a productive crop and the honey taken off straight
away, but in the UK where typically the bees will be foraging in gardens,
hedgerows, field margins and roadside verges as well as agricultural crops at
the same time the such labels would be a nonsense but the honey is delicious.
 Like fine wines they are all subtly different.

Chris Slade

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