. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. MU S 387 MUS Mushrooms may be grown in a cellar, or other vaulted place, with equal suc- cess, and not unfrequently with a greater advantage, the same rules being adopt- ed ; but no fire is necessary, and lees water. Heating by Hot-Water.—Instead of flues, as used by Mr. Oldacker, the fol- lowing plan, by Mr. Sellers, gardener to L. V. Watkins, Esq., of Pennoyre, may be substituted :— Fig. 103. is to be inserted in three or four days after making the holes; when the ther- mometer indicates the desired degree of heat, the insides of the holes are d
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. MU S 387 MUS Mushrooms may be grown in a cellar, or other vaulted place, with equal suc- cess, and not unfrequently with a greater advantage, the same rules being adopt- ed ; but no fire is necessary, and lees water. Heating by Hot-Water.—Instead of flues, as used by Mr. Oldacker, the fol- lowing plan, by Mr. Sellers, gardener to L. V. Watkins, Esq., of Pennoyre, may be substituted :— Fig. 103. is to be inserted in three or four days after making the holes; when the ther- mometer indicates the desired degree of heat, the insides of the holes are dry; and while the heat is on a decline, every hole is to be filled, either with lumps or small fragments well beaten in, and the surface made level. In a fortnight, if the spawn is vege- tating freely, which it will if not dam- aged by excess of heat or moisture, and the beds are required for immediate production, they may be earthed over; but those for succession left unearthed, three or four weeks in summer, and four or five in winter. If the spawn is introduced in hot weather, air must be admitted as freely as possible until it has spread itself through the beds, otherwise these will become spongy, and the crop be neither good nor abund- ant. The mould employed should be maiden earth, with turf well reduced ; neither too dry nor too wet, otherwise it will not be capable of being beat solid. It must be laid regularly over the beds two inches thick. From the time of " This cut represents a section of the moulding, the room is to be kept at a interior of the house, with three beds temperature of 50° or 55°. If higher, j for mushrooms, a a a, eighteen feet it will weaken or destroy the spawn; I long, and three feet wide, and three if lower, it will vegetate slowly, and shelves for forcing rhubarb, b b b. If if watered in that state, numbers of' circumstances permit, these shelves mushrooms will be prevented attaining may be made wider, and used for mush- perfection. W
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