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and then to have forgotten where they had stowed 

 them. Some peas are growing also in the same situ- 

 ation, and probably under the same circumstances. 



WHITE. 



CUCUMBERS SET 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 all the fruit, and will hover with impatience 

 round the lights in a morning, till the glasses are 

 opened. Proved by experience. WHITE. 



WHEAT. A notion has always obtained, that, 

 in England, hot summers are 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, occasion 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 and the skirts of coppices. Some truffles, he 

 informed us, lie two feet within the earth, and some 

 quite on the surface ; the latter, he added, have 

 little or no smell, and are not so easily discovered 

 by the dogs as those that lie deeper. Half-a-crown 

 a pound was the price which he asked for this com 

 modity. 



Truffles never abound in wet winters and springs. 

 They are in season, in different situations, at least 

 nine months in the vear. WHITE. 



