Gardening for profit; a guide to the successful cultivation of the market and family garden . st suitable place, in establish-ments having green-houses, vineries, or forcing pits, arethe back sheds, usually erected over the boiler pits, such as are shown in the plans offorcing pits in this such an erection is notindispensable; any place,where a temperature from40° to 60° can be sustainedduring winter, will suit. We have also grown themunder the stages of ourgreen-houses, but our mod-ern improvements of lateFig. 53.—mushroom. years, allow us no longer room for the operation there. The
Gardening for profit; a guide to the successful cultivation of the market and family garden . st suitable place, in establish-ments having green-houses, vineries, or forcing pits, arethe back sheds, usually erected over the boiler pits, such as are shown in the plans offorcing pits in this such an erection is notindispensable; any place,where a temperature from40° to 60° can be sustainedduring winter, will suit. We have also grown themunder the stages of ourgreen-houses, but our mod-ern improvements of lateFig. 53.—mushroom. years, allow us no longer room for the operation there. The time of beginningmay be any time during winter; we have usually begunour preparations about December 1st, which brought ourbeds into bearing about February 1st, at the season thatMushrooms begin to be most wanted. Our method of growing Mushrooms is very simple, andcan be accomplished to a certainty by any one conformingto the following directions. Let fresh horse droppings beprocured from the stables each day, in quantity not less,perhaps, than a good barrow load; to every barrow load. 204 GARDENING FOE PEOF1T. of droppings add about the same weight of fresh loam,from a pasture or sod land, or soil of any kind, in fact, thathas not been manured; (the danger of old manured soilbeing, that it may contain spurious fungi). Let thedroppings and soil be mixed together, day by day, as thedroppings can be procured; if they can be. had all atonce, in quantity enough, so much the better. Let theheap be turned every day, so that it is not allowed to heatviolently, until you have got quantity enough to form thebed of the dimensions required. Be careful that yourheap is under cover, so that it cannot possibly get wet. The most convenient size for a bed is from 4 to 5 feet inwidth, and if the Mushrooms are wanted in quantity, itis the plan most economical of space to start on the floorof the house with the first bed, the additional ones to beformed of shelving, 4 feet wide by 10 inches d
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