. Mushrooms : how to grow them : a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure . Mushrooms. 38 MUSHROOMS, HOW TO GROW THEM. Henshaw has raised mi^shrooms several years at his place on Staten Island. His mushroom house is nine feet wide and sixty feet long. One side is a brick wall aud the other is double boarded. The roof is of tin, in which there are three sash- es each two by five feet, supplying ample light. At each end is a door giving convenient access to the interior, for carrying in and removing material without disturbing the bearing beds. In winter the roof is cover
. Mushrooms : how to grow them : a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure . Mushrooms. 38 MUSHROOMS, HOW TO GROW THEM. Henshaw has raised mi^shrooms several years at his place on Staten Island. His mushroom house is nine feet wide and sixty feet long. One side is a brick wall aud the other is double boarded. The roof is of tin, in which there are three sash- es each two by five feet, supplying ample light. At each end is a door giving convenient access to the interior, for carrying in and removing material without disturbing the bearing beds. In winter the roof is covered with a coating of salt hav, to pre- FiG. 10. Interior View OP Mr. s. ii " HENSHAw's MUSHROOM HOUSE, servc an equable tempera- ture and prevent the moisture from condensing on the ceiling and falling in drops on the beds. The floor is of earth, which, wlien well drained, he thinks preferable to either brick or lumber. The floor is entirely covered with beds, no shelves or walks being used. This makes it necessary to step on the beds, but as no covering is employed it is always easy to avoid stepping on the clus- ters of young mushrooms, and so long as they are left uninjured the bed is seldom, if ever, impaired by the compacting effect of the treading. In order to main- tain a necessary winter temperature of 60° a four-inch hot-water pipe extends the whole length of the house about two feet from tlie floor. On the other side of the brick wall is a greenhouse which, by keeping the wall warm, helps to keep the mushroom house warm. Mr. Henshaw divides this house into three equal beds. The part at the further end of the house is made up in the fall and comes into bearing in December; the middle part a month later to come in a month later, and the near end still a month later, to follow as another sueces-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustratio
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