POISONOUS HONEY.
... The .notes :op-: poisonous honey.' alludeil to •in;another; paragraph. byDr. -Phillips,>the -U.S.A. Apicultunst, werothoso contained jri an article; by, Mr. T; W! Kirlt,- the New -Zealand Govormnont and ; published in tin?. .Departmental: report ;of, 1906, pago! 427'. The.article -gives, considerable information bn tho■- guostipn; of poisoning; by i honey,' : and traces the troublo m.'rNow Zealand to the , flowers of:the'puka-puku (or. wharangi), the rangiora,/and thp : waoriki (a; Native. species of buttercup, comnion oil. northern swamps); and also to the sweet'exudations which cnnie from .wounds, on the branches of the' ptika and rangioia;: All the poisons appear to lie volatile, and'to disappear &t' the honey .ripens:
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 116, 8 February 1908, Page 3
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106POISONOUS HONEY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 116, 8 February 1908, Page 3
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