. The book of the garden. Gardening. 470 PITS AND the garden wall, a lean-to roof would have been cheaper, and would have carried off the rain-water better. It is rather a novel, but still a good plan, to have the inner roof constructed of a brick arch, as it will of course save the outer one from decay, to which all mushroorn- house roofs are liable more than any other kind of garden building. This house struck us at first sight as very complete, excepting. in breadth, which we would increase to 9 feet—that is, 3 feet for the breadth of the beds on each side, and the same for the footpath, wh
. The book of the garden. Gardening. 470 PITS AND the garden wall, a lean-to roof would have been cheaper, and would have carried off the rain-water better. It is rather a novel, but still a good plan, to have the inner roof constructed of a brick arch, as it will of course save the outer one from decay, to which all mushroorn- house roofs are liable more than any other kind of garden building. This house struck us at first sight as very complete, excepting. in breadth, which we would increase to 9 feet—that is, 3 feet for the breadth of the beds on each side, and the same for the footpath, which at present is inconveniently narrow. The mushroom-house of the Baron Joseph D'Hoogvorst, of Limmal, near Brussels, in which we have seen abundant crops, is confined to very neatly fitted up wooden cases arranged in his extensive stables, and covered in with canvass cur- tains, which at first sight induces one to believe them repositories of stable- furniture, rather than mushroom cases. The annexed fig., 667, will give a perfect Fig. idea of their form and arrangement. Some peculiarity in the Barons mode of culture, as will be seen by a reference to his pub- lished treatise—" Methode nouvelle, facile, et peu couteuse, de cultiver la Champig- non," will satisfy those who would dread FRAMES. the creation of an unhealthy atmosphere for their horses, that such is not the5 result in his case. A French or Belgian stable of the first class is, however, a very different affair from most of those in this country, which are, when com- pared with the others, little better than close-boxes. Forsyttis mushroom-house.—This intel- ligent cultivator has described, in the "Gardeners' Magazine," the following structure, which, he very justly remarks, has durability as one of its objects. After pointing out the false economy of growing mushrooms in beds in the open air, which requires great labour in covering and uncovering, to say nothing of the value of the m
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