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the meeting, in January 1872, a pot of arum gar- 

 nished with large morels, and I had them in like 

 manner on almost all my pots. After long searching 

 I came to suspect that it proceeded from the com- 

 position of the earth which I used for potting ; never- 

 theless, I could not be positively certain of it. At 

 the beginning of the autumn of 1873 I made a 

 composition of earths analogous to that which I had 

 made in 1872, and obtained exactly the same results. 

 I am now therefore assured of the culture of the 

 morel, and that it can be effected with much greater 

 economy, and less trouble, than the culture of the 

 .mushroom. 



"My earth for the purpose is thus composed — (i) 

 one quarter of two year old tan, well rotted ; (2) one 

 quarter of heath mould or leaf mould ; (3) one quarter 

 of ordinary vegetable mould ; (4) one quarter of fresh 

 loami." 



A writer suggests the addition of a fifth proportion 

 of mould from some spot where the morel is known 

 to thrive. 



M. Simar directs that the whole is to be carefully 

 mixed together. When the composition is made, 

 you refill your pots with this fresh compost. At the 

 beginning of October you make a bed of fresh tan, 

 in the state it comes from the tanner's hand, six or 

 seven inches deep, the fresher the tan the better. In 

 this you set the pots as close together as possible, 

 and let them remain without touching them ; in three 



