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state, they form an excellent substitute 

 for capers. 



" It should be planted on a warm 

 border in April, having soaked the seed 

 in warm water for twelve hours. The 

 usual mode of planting, is in hills three 

 feet apart each way, four seeds in a 

 hill ; two strong plants are sufficient to 

 remain ; when they commence running, 

 place brush around them to climb on. 

 When the berries attain full growth, 

 but whilst yet tender, they are plucked 

 with the foot stalk attached, and pre- 

 served in vinegar." — Rural Register. 



TROWEL. This implement, made of 

 iron from twelve to six inches long in 

 the plate, and half as broad, hollowed 

 like a scoop, and fixed on a short handle 

 to hold with one hand, is convenient in 



latter cultivates the Piedmont Truffle, 

 and his process is this : — He either em- 

 ploys the soil where the truffle is found, 

 or he prepares an artificial soil of seven 

 parts good garden earth; two, well 

 pulverized clayey soil ; and one, oak 

 sawdust — intimately mixed. Decayed 

 oak or beech leaves would be better 

 probably than the sawdust. If the na- 

 tural soil was used, he trenched it two 

 feet, removing all the large stones, and 

 adding oak sawdust, if necessary, and 

 about one- tenth of powdered snail shells, 

 if the soil was too stiff. 



" Choosing an aspect rather exposed 

 to the north than the south, where no 

 reflected rays could fall upon it, with 

 every precaution to insure its being 

 thoroughly soaked with pure rain-water, 



removing small plants, with a ball or and after waiting a day or two till it 



lump of earth about their roots, lifting 

 bulbous flower roots after the flowering 

 is past in summer; planting bulbs in 

 patches or little clumps about the bor- 

 ders, as also for digging small patches 

 in the borders, for sowing hardy annual 

 flower seeds ; likewise for filling mould 

 into small pots, stirring the surface of 

 the earth in pots, and fresh earthing 

 them when necessary. And such a 

 trowel is likewise very convenient for 

 pointing over or stirring the ground be- 

 tween rows of small close-placed plants 

 jn beds or borders ; are made between 

 about twelve inches long in the plate, 

 and six broad, narrowing gradually to 

 the bottom, the other six or eight inches 

 in the plate, and four inches broad, 

 narrowing considerably towards the bot- 

 tom, to introduce between small plants. 



TROXIMON. Two species. Hardy 

 herbaceous perennials. Division. Com- 

 mon soil. 



TRUE PARSLEY. Apium Petroso- 

 linvm. 



TRUE SERVICE. Pyrm Sorbus. 



was in a proper state of moisture, he 

 made rows half a foot deep, and in 

 these, at six inches distance, he placed 

 good and sound truffles, each of them 

 being surrounded with two or three 

 handfuls of oak sawdust, taking care to 

 mark the rows accurately. Ridges were 

 then made over each row, to prevent 

 the truffles being injured by too abund- 

 ant moisture. The bed was then left 

 till the following autumn, with no other 

 precaution than, in dry weather, to take 

 care that it did not become too dry. 

 The result, we are informed, was an 

 abundant harvest, every year, from Oc- 

 tober to January." — Gard. Chron. 



Bradley, writing, in 1726, of the culti- 

 vation of the truffle in England, says 

 that — 



" The truffle may be easily cultivated 

 where there are woods or coppices of 

 oak or hazel, and where the soil is not 

 too stifle, or inclining to chalk. The soil 

 where they are most found is a reddish 

 sandy loam ; this will then be the best 

 for our purpose, especially if it has lain 



TRUFFLE. Tufeer mng-rea^wm. Pied- ; long uncultivated. When we are thus 



montese Truffle ; T. Borchii, Italy ; T. 

 moschatum, Musk Truffle, near Bath 



provided with the proper soil, we must 

 be sure to let it lie undisturbed till we 



T. cibarium. Common Truffle, England. I are ready to plant, which will be in the 

 But besides the tubers there are other] months of October, November, and De- 

 edible fungi known as trufiles, viz., Hi/- I cember, if the weather be open; for 

 drohoUtes tulasnei, Spye Park, Wilts ; then the truffles are to be found in their 

 Mclngomster Broomeianus, Red Truf- ' full ripeness, and then, likewise, one 



f3e, near Bath. 



may find them in a state of putrefaction, 



These edible fungi have not yet been which is the time when the seeds are 

 cultivated in England, though the Prus- : prepared for vegetation. It is in the 

 gians have succeeded in making them a ' last state that one ought to gather truf- 

 garden tenant, and Comte de Borch has fles for planting, or at least they should 

 been equally successful in Italy. The i be in perfect ripeness. 



