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Show llee Notej. All Bhould know that the boo does not mako honey, but simply gathers it from the flowers; when it obtains its sweets from sugar, it deposits sugar syrup in tho celte, not honey, and- no amount of manipulation by tho bees can make it into anything else but sugar syrup. Aroma is a term employod to designate desig-nate those substances, tho extreme minute particles of which are supposed to affect tho organs of smell so as to produce peculiar odors. The particles diffused through the atmosphere and affecting tho olfactory nerves if the theory of particles of matter be correctmust cor-rectmust indeed ba extremely minute, yet not so much so but what e easily detect the smell from a field of any honey-bearing plant or flower. These odors have generally been sup- posed to depend ipon essontial oils. Scientists tell us that odors of flowers flow-ers do hot as a general rulo, exist in them as a store, or as a gland butnro developed as an exhalation. While tho flower breathes it yields fragrance, but kill the flower and the fragrance ceases. It seems, then, that the odors are simply exhalations dependent upon essential oils, not upon vapor impregnated impreg-nated with matter and cannot, therefore, there-fore, be condensed as such, nnd we have yet to learn that those exhalations exhala-tions aro visible, or leave tbo least offline nn.l wliila If U vvpl known that """' - - - they combine with various fatty mat-tors; mat-tors; they do not sensibly increase their weitrht or bulk. Thus, no matter how much our nice clover or linden honey may perfumo our room in which it is I placed, tho quantity of honey is never I materially loss. |