. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. n^ The American Florist. Feb. I, I am no lover of large designs, but I could not help admitting that this was a very beautiful piece of work. The ac- companying photograph, taken under very unfavorable circumstances, will con- vey some idea of the design—which is generally conceded to have been the finest piece of floral work seen in Balti- more for many a day. A. W. M, Baltimore. Mushroom Growing. BV FALCONER. Having heard a good deal about Mr. Wilson's mushroom beds, I called there yesterday (iSth inst.) to
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. n^ The American Florist. Feb. I, I am no lover of large designs, but I could not help admitting that this was a very beautiful piece of work. The ac- companying photograph, taken under very unfavorable circumstances, will con- vey some idea of the design—which is generally conceded to have been the finest piece of floral work seen in Balti- more for many a day. A. W. M, Baltimore. Mushroom Growing. BV FALCONER. Having heard a good deal about Mr. Wilson's mushroom beds, I called there yesterday (iSth inst.) to see them. Mr. Wilson has a very extensive greenhouse establishment at Astoria, near New York, The mushroom beds have been made un- der both the middle and side benches in the greenhouses, and occupy an immense space—I should think some hundreds of square yards. The beds are all flat, built upon the ground, and without any pro- tection from drip from the benches above. And in order to exclude strong light from them, muslin is tacked over the openings between the benches and the beds alongside the pathways. Some of the beds are in bearing condition, others coming in, and some more re- cently spawned ones not yet showing any signs of mushrooms. The mush- rooms are of the buff-colored variety usually got from brick spawn. Mr. Wilson tells me that he cannot overstock the market. The wholesale dealers in New York alone will take 200 pounds a day at a dollar a pound. He says whatever he makes in this way is— the labor in making the beds and gather- ing the crop excepted—almost clean profit. He needs the manure and loam, anyway, for potting his plants, and it is in better condition for this use after being done with in the mushroom beds than it was before being used in them. And as there are large car-horse stables near his place, he gets the manure fresh and handy. He does not think the drip from the benches hurts the mushrooms; indeed, he had last year some of his best mush-
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