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fungi to the surface. ‘‘ Experience,” says Mr. Harkness, “teaches 
the collector to seek such localities as are best suited to the growth 
and development of the desired material.’’ The results which follow 
long experience are indeed sometimes wonderful. For many suc- 
with his sharp trowel, and then raked up the earth and secured his 
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was & young man he accidentally noticed a strange vegetable growth 
a out of the earth in the vide of a ditch. He cut it away, not 
nowing in the least what it was, when some friend who had hear 
that the growth was “fone of the Tuberacei—Choiromyces meanari- 
formis by name” —a sufficiently formidable answer to one not yet a 
beginner. Berkeley also advised Broome to look for other plants of 
