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Show A. Kare Vegetate. In closing his ground the truffler ia guided by the time of year, the character charac-ter of the soil and his own judgment and experience, says a London journal. On familiar beats ho knows exactly where to go, and in a strange country is guided by certain general principles. Where fern and bracken grow, where furze is plentiful, where there are reeds and rushes, wherever the land is moist and sour, it is hopeless to expect truffles. truf-fles. They love a l!gt soil and yet never attain any size or perfection on a poor one. By far the greatest quantity are obtained under the shadow of beech trees, but very fine specimens are often found under the cedar, especially in avenues av-enues and grounds where the land has been well trenched. The lime is another good tree for them, and so is the evergreen ever-green oak In France the oak is their favorite tree. Early in the season that is to say, in September and October quantities are to be obtained on the roadsides (sometimes in ground so hard it would need a pickax to open it) on railway embankments and on the out-sides out-sides of copses and covers. ' Later, when leaves have fallen and the sun is able to penetrate glade and thicket, the inside in-side beds are most productive. They do not come under very young trees and disappear Gtire1? from old woods. |