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Old 25-05-2004, 12:10 AM
Jaques d'Alltrades
 
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...He did promise that he might

let me
know where to search, but sadly died in 1992 without revealing his
secret. Pity because we've had a fair number of hot summers here
since and its a shame to think of those culinary delights sitting
going to waste.


Not a total waste, surely. Won't they be producing more offspring
than they would have done once they had been picked.


Now all you have to do is find them. Are the local woodlands
managed by the Wildlife Trust or the Woodland Trust? If so, the
local warden might have an idea where they could be found.


As the truffles themselves are the fruit-bodies, leaving them will not
all to the number to be found in subsequent years on that site, though
it might result in distant clones being established elsewhere.

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