[2128] “Defrutum:” grape-juice boiled down to one-half.
[2129] Fée is at a loss to know how this could be of any service as an aliment to bees.
[2130] A mere puerility, Fée says.
[2131] But extremely weak, no doubt; for after boiling, the hydromel must be subjected, first to vinous, and then to acetous, fermentation.
[2132] The method here described differs but little from that employed at the present day.
[2133] “Sporta.”
[2134] Or Carthaginian.
[2135] In reality, the wax has properties totally different from those of the honey, and it is not always gathered from the same plants.
[2136] A kind of bee-glue. See B. xi. c. 6.
[2137] Neither the nitre nor the salt, Fée says, would be of the slightest utility.