. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igo6. The American Florist. 651 Subsequently the writer was able to look into the matter of spawn mak- ing in Europe and France, and he was convinced that the difficulty of secur- ing good spawn in England is _ not a very serious factor. The same is true with reference to the material which is obtained by both extensive and small growers in France. Special im- portations of some of the commercial English and French spawns were made, and these were packed, shipped, and stored under conditions as favorable as may or
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igo6. The American Florist. 651 Subsequently the writer was able to look into the matter of spawn mak- ing in Europe and France, and he was convinced that the difficulty of secur- ing good spawn in England is _ not a very serious factor. The same is true with reference to the material which is obtained by both extensive and small growers in France. Special im- portations of some of the commercial English and French spawns were made, and these were packed, shipped, and stored under conditions as favorable as may ordinarily obtain. This spawn was imported during midwinter and stored until March or early April, when it was used in spawning some experimental beds. The conditions of the experiments were practically the same throughout, yet in not more than half the beds was there a favorable development of mushroom spawn. A distribution of the French spawn, both the commercial flake and the improved cake spawn, was made to several prominent American growers. Some of these growers experienced entire fail- ure, while others reported that, after a slow beginning, beds spawned with this material made a good yield. The general conclusion, re-enforced by ob- servation and by the experience of practical growers, could only be that a large perecentage of loss in mush- room growing is attributable to the injury suffered by the spawn after its preparation. This conclusion has been further strengthened by the experience of the past three years. Under condi- tions where fresh spawn has invariably made a good yield, the spawn which is more than a year old is, for the most part, seriously injured or killed. To be exact, in only one case was there any production of mushrooms by spawn which had been kept for a year or longer. It must be said that no attempt was made to keep these spawns under similar conditions or under the most favorable conditions. For the most part the spawn was stored in the dry laborat
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