424. OBSERVATIONS ON VEGETABLES. 
That sort of fruit did once, no doubt, abound there, and will 
again when the obstruction is removed.— WHITE. 
BEANS SOWN BY BIRDS. 
Many horse-beans sprang up in my field-walks in the autumn, 
and are now grown to a considerable height. As the Ewel was in 
beans last summer, it is most likely that these seeds came from 
thence ; but then the distance is too considerable for them to have 
been conveyed by mice. It is most probable therefore that they 
were brought by birds, and in particular by jays and pies, who 
seem to have hid them among the grass and moss, and then to have 
forgotten where they had stowed them. Some pease are growing 
also in the same situation, and probably under the same circum- 
stances.— WHITE. 
CUCUMBERS {ET BY BEES: 
If bees, who are much the best setters of cucumbers, do not 
happen to take kindly to the frames, the best way is to tempt them 
by a little honey put on the male and female bloom. When they 
are once induced to haunt the frames, they set al] the fruit, and will 
hover with impatience round the lights in a morning, till the glasses 
are opened. Pyrodbatum est.—WHITE. 
WHEAT. 
A notion has always obtained that in England hot summers arc 
productive of fine crops of wheat; yet in the years 1780 and 1781, 
though the heat was intense, the wheat was much mildewed, and 
the crop light. Does not severe heat, while the straw is milky, 
eccasion its juices to exude, which being extravasated, occasion 
spots, discolour the stems and blades, and injure the health of the 
plants >— WHITE. 
TRUFFLES. 
August. A truffle-hunter called on us, having in his pocket 
several large truffles found in this neighbourhood. He says these 
roots are not to be found in deep woods, but in narrow hedge-rows 
