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duct tl the { al be ot J on tl ti 1 larly-g Trufie, hrase of mine has rovoked our friend eta 
oe of the Tru Or must we “thin shit th i hat p fe thi hy the ben: 
gen ores have an Beker ‘nace which carries them away | it has rg tier pA least resistance. The Trufiles was a gardener. —Iam an. : man who, like the ease- 
m the Lao when the ey grow mo rch rye A friend | found during the autumn and winter are — begs 3 in in t of K ve vacated my offi ih and 
of Pr the quantity | the earth than those collected’ in the sum When | retired to cultivate my elegans ne = moist on of 
\ and not bei rte able to keep it | these Truffies are black, b perfume, and | waters not Rage far north as Lochleven. I cannot 
y Ne poot he pat) iy wae this precious plot of smell, as the asad call it, they do not increase in size; | carried bac’ my play-going jae —the days of the 
ground. For some time he derived considerable advan- | ¥nd d if left in the ground thay perish. Dug up or dis- | Kembles a Siddous and Cookes—or to hear the echo 
tage, but each year the Truffles decreased, and a few | turbed, they rot also, leaving no chane ce of finding any | of the voice of the Perdita who charmed the Florizel 
years after the ground had been enclosed I they entirely 1, that | Ge eorge; before pavilions and pagodas had vitiated his 
disappeared. Wishing to ascertain whether $s was — when they es in the earth 490 are less plentiful the fol- | taste, and stec eped him in sloth and er 
effect of nae walls, the when pe eT the same place. Every eight days ne Fast penn’d in Circe’s sty.” 
Frege appeared, and at last became as plentiful “¥ foot season, I Trafiles m may be fo ‘ou nd 0 on the sa ame spo t, wher | But I have been charmed back to the i immortal eying 
th If this is correct, e ha d bee n left. it contradicts light f the text ery context of the 
ite! is unfortunate “ty some observations have eh ge hat to g d yomea Le cise adduced ~ hoa ae in 
m ade on n the soil, 0 and | sary to le! oralen rot, and add ight to th opin i 0 Man ore striking instances 4 
on ch dit, Pr Brows Sor r Pages of those van have found the seeds s of 
thinks the soil was a paar pe aes lande); but it is re vo — (without doubt the cal ome poder left | hee pore might be collected from his writings ; here is 
requisite to know whether there are not other causes, be- n the th. The ma nure made by the p ig tha t tears up 
ides Gia tal > of Gerarde and Parkinson were no novices in the arts of 
e Truffles. It is useless to trouble ourselves with | sup- | theless ts | forci se sa blanching: _ 
positions, as we know nothing certain o} under a tree where they had ovinsty been found ering discretion with a coat of foll 
fact : we know, however, that the nature of some pr or 
e be € xplained ? Let us wait for time and obser- | Weo ught not to overlook another of ‘then mo: an remarkable ; 
circumstances, is favourable to the predation. of this vation, ‘ied, shove ig for those happy chances which so a wae scene, and an exquisite one it is, in Richard IJ., 
vegetable. But in what manner does it i This | often produc discoveries. In order to furnish | in the Dake of York’s garden at La angley, between the 
is unknown. We have collected some pat ion Bie facts | materials vm han yi wish to study Truffles, last year om poor Queen and the ee _ moralise the fate of 
from the Truffle-hunters of Venaissin. ey say that | experiment was made on oo gecsonn 15 ne old, - whic! f their craft. 
Truffles are commonly found under nui peices, evergreen | I have already spoken To the oil bein cli Oh! -w at pity riedt, 
oaks, white oaks, poplars, planes, and rato ones but | 6 That h Pengo So trim and dress’d his land 
) 1 for some years, and | feet distance from it on every side. oes the summer, Te wound the Berth thmahthcen ole Memmisbins 
the trees, rs ; the raffles lefuls of hot the soil, quite Lest, beinz over-proud. with sap and blood, 
will not reappear for ee or six years — When large hot enough to png troy the vegetation without Killing bre With too much riches it confound itself : 
branches are cut off white oaks, evergreen oaks, or other | roots of the a recborensaer be A crheoiorenat oe a ore 
ees, the Truffles remove further off; an dif the i Phe ra pig roo rage uch larger coreg than the yet gee Their fruits eons All superfluous branch ‘ 
is repeated, t they disappear altogether. This coincidence | ceding. I attribute this incre: ‘o the non-culture of the We lop away, that bearing boughs may live 
between the presence of the Truffle when the trees are not | soil, to scalding the plants, to ‘ep prieance 6 of the poplar | And again, 
cut, and its disappearance when they are pruned, will lead | branches, but, above all, to the — summer. The kn og! meg Sd sorte, fhe withe land, 
one day to some facts respecting their tion. I | fact, however, is true, and the hunter was surprised. Slog Gait: Sree G8 telgtanna.-her hotgie Fela, 
have witnessed an animal trained for truffle-hunting pass | Encouraged by this trial, I have saccuabed the number of Her knots disorder’d, and her w olesome he: 
through an alley ered with praned white oaks, with- | branches, and plared them so c _ eg ether as to pee Swarming with caterpillar 
out manifesting any desire to scratch up the earth, not- | all vegetation springing up. ot expect much fr rom | But it is too much to infer from these or any | similar pas- 
withstandi ee ose the trees were prun he had this exp P play ‘ 
scratched w The pigs used for g ithst: t he | the affairs of the garden than with many other rural 
em ponien! 5 the fealty Th pe prastions. on a ror motive of in fres h progress in science, and | matters. It would be quite as easy to bring proof, if such 
truffle-hunter of V: ae ten baa fra for w | others by the hope of interest : up to the present time all proof could be admitted from internal evidence in contra- 
reputed to be the Se a in the pro This rom has been useless. The problem of the increase of the | diction to spats sary adn of his having followed al- 
previously observed, for Platina, ae “vived in the ioe Truffle remains to be resolved, as et be that of crayfish | Most any other ry callin oo ny of the ‘aa ae 
century, says “that nothing equals the instinct of th although filled wi = Lwicy water. srzayad of our gris end * A i more to field tha 
sows of Notza in finding T; N k “et ever des — garden operations, rae eve: rpeere he is full of caikeae 
The presence of Truffles is made but h lated | t gery rs which would be just as serviceable 
when the animal, drawn by an trestle tg dige up froma sui M. Bows is “support of an praca 1 owet of his having studi 
g J with ; " Fuormous Sirarrics-— wen strawberries of the | @ the ‘*farming-linc,” under his father-in-law, Hathaway. 
ea a bean, wnton sort were on Thursday as gathered from the The rural féte of the Winter’s Tale, from which “ A.’ 
or a few grains of maize, to encourage it. When the nee of Mr. J. Elgar, Wingham, which weighed eighteen | '>Frows so largely, is no other than a delightful exaltation 
Truffle is dug up, it is quickly pemera anda g oe anes i a 5S skete 
put in its place. The pig is so much rain by the @ rom the life” of the pedlar of the ord ** Bohemia ;’’ 
Truffle, thet it often rin, pes Se great quantity of aan Rey lee just sm Orehidaceous Sty mp sad Nemo nt ps “em wie rest doubt that omar fe ist talk about pippins and 
to bring one the size of a nut to the surface. When it | these animals ha ving a penchant for es plants. eather: tnd wi wether ‘ssa and the price of wool, 
leaves the place and goes further, the hunter is certain | The other day he received from Honduras a case, into stirs 3 met as it fell from the 
wlth: thiad ec eickod ys aaah é ae a mouth of the ie edad tcepetraheot the same vicinity ? Who 
y be produced in eight days afterwards, bicinis, six fest high, and other things. The sillai . in farming matters would have made 
foundunder unpraned chestnut-trees. A tree was — ted | had devoured the best part of the Schomburgkia, especi Thersites say, “‘ Would the fountain of your mind were 
uncultivated stony wes in 1832 py pourlds of | ally the poor creature's eyes; they ate off th keg ae EE sandr ond that I might water an ass at it! I had rather 
Trofiles were fo ui nder Pia io bulhe of B ee ete paras a sheep than pepe Mocremdh gal 
were sown under the same ea , and neither in 1 that year | —Bad a ate - es 3 to th th ee BA 
nor the following ones could the pig seratch up oe The D etter recently circulated by Mr. J. of passion, and in the utterance of the noblest seatiments, 
Truffle: they had disappeared. It seems, however, that R. Pearson port petrbas to the Members . a Not- | — = Se and yet each « hern-deor piirite, 
cultivation does not always repel them; for Rozier says, and Horticultural Society, are the follow this phish tebe thy Bir 
they are found in Angoumois in cultivated lands, stubble. this flower i = Iam nies | Show'd thy dear mother any csi om fis 
fields, and even in vineyards. Nevertheless, Pliny ob- pr ng eeartie tee whole = rig ene When shy poor hen !) Sots of no second brood, 
da x sd are only to be found in uncultivated places, | D sire dece ptive. How mai naa sy ts red nak mah potey hog to the war s, aad safely home 
under thickets, cam gang ta wn f Dahli i d when ‘ : 
‘ Penfle-hed hiel Or if I were to take it upon me to prove that Shakspeare 
Pee “ee Porlgadg oy grasa became phe and i y have planted them in good rich sol, end tied then — om youthfal a hades of following the 
perished in the second, In p sate . ia taking up | they saw at the show, and instead of having bloom in the | 7." ere ee ee 
some a eva awhite oak, about 1 old, ie i to of half a \eobny have had fiat, ee ener ooking age rofsnion I Sonne not ping ape as 
had sprung wg and that had onal "Sana oes flowers. ey were not aware that the plants rei which oe hr es wane h 5 bat bint = of 
several pow Fgh f Truffles were found; and a few days | the blooms were cut for the show, had, ever since they ile ee or Nadie: = ars be tha Ledeen 
after, a pig was placed on the spot, which dug up three | were in large bud, been watered with a strong solution of the Tg between the hunts ra cae the Lord = 
Pounds more. | Tn the § » South there are t three varieties of ne oh and blood, stripped of half their ‘shoots, pra 3s and thend wera watts eso the 
with 1 glasses to | 
rok Shick is found in glades, in woods, in the avenues of preserve the ae petals till the prea ones had time to Waterford ‘kidney i in those days); or to the nobler 
heaths k der the n of | grow and that the means, a 
= dhe latter end of the Midsummer Night's Dream, ig Rs 
; bg pieet hed, Se Shove een Hippolita and Theseus. 
pasa It grows where, from the sterility of soil, no other | rendered such an object, that it pet § disgrace a kitchen sc I was with Hercules and 
ents, gee’ slight swelling of the surface of mes —_ after this, the bloom had been cut an wi en, in the woods of Crete, cy bay the bese 
the soil, small cracks, and a little fly, which flutters about a cellar, in air-tight boxes; and that when it With hounds of Sparta ; never 
t cracks,—t parry’ * “ bs + Such mar Ao agg doen hey a 
the combination of th shows th caren for ion, it was almost as much ai the fountains, every region heat 
tt e Trufile ex exists, and at no great depth. Then, with a| cial as if it had made of wi fi Seem’d all one mutnal ery : Tnever heard 
little stick, the earth is raised from it: the’ Vauclasians | who has been disappointed in this manner, be any more So musica! a discord, such sweet th 
call those who obtain Truffles in this is manner, “ Broga | satisfied, when told, that by surrounding his plants next | Then follows Theseus’ a description of his pack, 
Hunters.” These Truffles are yellowish on the outs: de, year with stakes, boards, lasses, till they look like aoning that. Shakspeare was as 
ke llowish- white within ; their fume is alight, 2 and by watering them with solutions, which | of the kennel as any Warwickshire squire of his cata It 
agian ee Pingre arts n| will correct t! too H ul fragrance of his si 
‘ left in the ground ; ar seem ain esta pa, the other manos be haps may get as good a bloom as the | it here. 
second variety, aed the ed, which appear in the autumn | one he ssw ®_-(Can these gtements be ac exponitin ton a tof ig tn 
Ment All Saints’ Day. They med red, because the | of the manner in which prize Dahlias are prepared for : a 
between the irregularities oft the skin is of that romped : 
the interior is sligh marbled with black: these give out hakspeare @ Gardener. 
by odour. SThgie size varies a good deal, ox seems | when every “dior of the ga 
to depend on the abundance or gain of “age omg the | lives in the a air, it is rather. provoking to be called 
hird back to s books 3 but the Ocrasion warrants the dis- 
as to the spring, and is am the heck ws ot | traction we a few momenta from the proper business of the 
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2 it is considered the best kind. The flesh | time, and the interest be3 the subject will fully repay us ; eve ag 
the i bin te bl the interior | for the in aterruption. Of everything that amen e slips 
is also black, with aes wiih yeins: it Boers power- — re, and — genius of his writings, we say, as he Strainin, § upon the start 
fal odour, our, overpoweri me persons. — when ot Coop Macbeth ; 
Stowing in a sand ca ian aeae? but bag ate cannot wither ber, Rr cutom te Ay, int i vik nha logue ye gn for mony ity 
Sa pee ina ope one, a infinite variety. a ‘ho ste and greyhounds, momgaela, J 
+ onrhs, 
resistance they in ete it_ may Wy Sr spe Sd it te Aa by the poane-al dea ‘ 
= en oO Oe Sila ated Son Sach alge ae 
