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Every day I have walked about a heather-covered common, and, so far as I can remember, have never yet seen a hive bee enjoying the crop. Yet the species of heather is the ling, which gives the best honey, and is open to bees of the shortest tongue. I do not regard heather honey as so good as most other honeys, and it has some peculiar qualities not altogether popular with honey sellers, but it has a great name, and bees are generally held to rejoice in the nectar. The experts now tell me that the capacity of the heather to yield attractive nectar varies immensely in different places. In some the bees flock to it, in some they have no use for it. Happily white clover is always white clover, one of the most beneficent plants that grows—for the physician of denudation as for the bee-keeper.
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