Preheat oven to 300F and generously grease and flour a 10" tube pan. With an electric mixer, beat butter until light and ten slowly add sugar and cream together until light colored. Add honey. Beat in eggs one at a time mixing well after each addition. Mix together dry ingredients. Take out 1/2 c of mixture and toss with raisins, figs and nuts. Add remainder of dry ingredients to egg-butter-sugar mixture, alternately with water. By hand, fold nuts and fruit into batter. Pour into pan. Bake for about 1 1/2 hours or until cake is firm to touch on top. Let col in pan for 1/2 hour and then turn onto a cooling rack. Let is cool completely before cutting.