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OBSERVATIONS ON 
bloom. "When they are once induced to haunt the frames, 
they set all the fruit, and wiU hover with impatience round 
the lights in a morning, till the glasses are opened. Pro- 
batum est, 
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 he^t 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 ? 
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 commodity. 
Truffles never abound in wet winters and springs. They 
are in season, in different situations, at least nine months in 
the year. 
TREMELLA NOSTOC. 
Though the weather may have been ever so dry and burning, 
yet after two or three wet days, this jelly like substance 
abounds on the walks. 
FAIRY RINGS. 
The cause, occasion, call it what you will, of fairy rings, 
subsists in the turf, and is conveyable with it; for the turf 
of my garden-walks, brought from the down above, abounds 
with those appearances, which vary their shape, and shift 
situation continually, discovering themselves now in circles, 
