. Mushrooms : how to grow them : a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure . Mushrooms. GUOWIXG MUSHROOMS IX CELLARS. ;37 lar, and ascribes liis best successes to Lis most tliorough cleaiiin;^-. Every summer he cleans out his cellars and limewashes all over. Mr. Van Siclen's Method—Mr. Abram Van Sic- len, of Jamaica, L. 1., also grows mushrooms very exten- sively in underground cellars, whoss arrangements do not differ materially from those of Mr. Denton's, except in his manner of heating. He runs an immense green- house vegetable-growing establishment, as well as a sum-
. Mushrooms : how to grow them : a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure . Mushrooms. GUOWIXG MUSHROOMS IX CELLARS. ;37 lar, and ascribes liis best successes to Lis most tliorough cleaiiin;^-. Every summer he cleans out his cellars and limewashes all over. Mr. Van Siclen's Method—Mr. Abram Van Sic- len, of Jamaica, L. 1., also grows mushrooms very exten- sively in underground cellars, whoss arrangements do not differ materially from those of Mr. Denton's, except in his manner of heating. He runs an immense green- house vegetable-growing establishment, as well as a sum- mer truck farm, and uses hot water heating ajiparatus, also smoke flues as employed ordinarily in greenhouses, especially lettuce houses. The sheet is on pipes, except in squash houses, he does not hold in much favor. The Dosoris Mushroom Cellar.—This is a subter- ranean tunnel or cellar that was excavated and arched some ten years ago, expressly for the cultivation of mush-. FIG. 3. CBOSS-SECTIOX of the DOSOItIS MUSHKOOM CELLAR. rooms. It is situated in an open, sunny part of the garden, and its extreme length from outside of end walls is eightv-three feet: but of this space nine feet at either. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Falconer, William. New York : Orange Judd Co.
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