On Fri, 7 Feb 1997 12:29:19 -0800 "Paul van Westendorp of AGF 576-3737 Fax: 576-3730" > In fact, some honeys especially horse-chestnut, have unusually > high levels of naturally occuring FA (up to 600ppm!). Reading your post Paul led me to think...aha! Do you suppose that encouraging the planting of Horse Chestnut trees, and any other type of applicable similar types of plant life, might not make some sense? Are there any faster growing types of plants that may suit the same purpose? Granted that this is a "long term" sort of proposal and we here in the USA are not known for enacting long term plans in the interests of the "general good". We are good at "emergencies" though, i.e., WW II. Sometimes, we bring these emergencies on ourselves. Anyway, for those of you who are the "science experts", would this sort of thinking be of any value in the long term? FWIW, Al ...................................................................................................... Al Needham--Scituate,MA,[log in to unmask] "The HoneyBee"--An Educational Program About Honey Bees With A Superb Slide Show-Version 2.0 (c) 1997 Download From: http://www.kuai.se/~beeman