. The parks, promenades, & gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own cities, and the public and private gardens. Gardens; Parks. MUSHROOM CULTURE. 473 which little passages radiate. A few little lamps fixed on pointed sticks are placed below, and, arming ourselves with one each, we slowly commence exploring tortuous passages as dark as night and as still as death. I have heard that the first individual who commenced Mushroom growing in these catacomb-like burrowings was one who, at a particu- larly glorious epoch of the history of France, when a great m
. The parks, promenades, & gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own cities, and the public and private gardens. Gardens; Parks. MUSHROOM CULTURE. 473 which little passages radiate. A few little lamps fixed on pointed sticks are placed below, and, arming ourselves with one each, we slowly commence exploring tortuous passages as dark as night and as still as death. I have heard that the first individual who commenced Mushroom growing in these catacomb-like burrowings was one who, at a particu- larly glorious epoch of the history of France, when a great many more brave garcons went to the fight than returned from the victory, preferred, strange to say, to stay at home and hide himself rather than form a unit in " battle's mag- nificently stern ; Industrious and discreet youth! You deserve being held up as an example almost as much as the busy bee that improves each " shining ; The passages are narrow, and occasion- Fk»- 280. ally we have to stoop. On each hand there are little narrow beds of half - decomposed stable manure running along the wall. These have been made quite recently, and have not yet been spawned. Presently we arrive at Mouth of Mushroom Cave at Montrouge. others in which the spawn has been placed, and is " taking" freely. The spawn in these caves is introduced to the little beds by means of flakes taken from an old bed, or, still better, from a heap of stable manure in which it occurs naturally. Such spawn is preferred, and considered much more valuable than that taken from old beds. Of spawn in the form of bricks, as in England, there is none. The Champignonniste pointed with pride to the way in which the flakes of spawn had begun to spread through the little beds, and passed on—sometimes stooping very low to avoid the pointed stones in the roof—to where the beds were in a more advanced state. Here we saw little, smooth, putty-coloured ridges running along the side
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