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they had stowed them. Some peas are growing also in the 

 same situation, 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. Pro- 

 batum est. 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 exsude, 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 in- 

 formed 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 

 commodity. 



Truffles never abound in wet winters and springs. They 

 are in season in different situations, at least nine months in 

 the year. WHITE. 



