. Annual descriptive catalogue and calendar : seeds. Nursery stock Connecticut New Haven Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. FRANK S. PLATT'S FARM, GARDEN AND SEED MANUAL. 33. MUSHROOfl SPAWN. Mushrooms may be cultivated much easier than is generally supposed. They may be grown in a cellar or shed, or in beds prepared in the open air in the same manner as hot- beds. Take fresh horse manure, shake it well apart and lay it into a heap to ferment. Turn and mix it well every three or fo
. Annual descriptive catalogue and calendar : seeds. Nursery stock Connecticut New Haven Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. FRANK S. PLATT'S FARM, GARDEN AND SEED MANUAL. 33. MUSHROOfl SPAWN. Mushrooms may be cultivated much easier than is generally supposed. They may be grown in a cellar or shed, or in beds prepared in the open air in the same manner as hot- beds. Take fresh horse manure, shake it well apart and lay it into a heap to ferment. Turn and mix it well every three or four days by shaking together the outside of the heap, which is cold, and the inside, which is hot, so that every part of it maybe equally fermented and deprived of its noxious quality. When the dung is in ant state to be made into abed, which will be in two or three weeks after it has been put together to ferment, select a dry spot for a foundation. Mark out the bed, which should be four feet wide and as long as you choose to make it. In making the bed Mushrooms. mjx the dung well together, beating it down â with a fork until eighteen to twenty-four inches thick. In this state it may remain until the temperature is sufficiently moderate for spawning, which may be ascertained by trial sticks thrust into different parts of the beds. Divide the large cakes of spawn into â¢small parts, plant two inches below the surface, six inches apart, cover with two inches of fine light soil and press down evenly. When finished, cover the bed a foot thick with clean straw and protect from heavy rains. The mushrooms will make their appearance in from four to six weeks, according to the season. Price per lb., 12c; 10 lbs. for $, in bricks. nUSTARD. Mustard seed is too widely known and appreciated to need description. It is useful both in its natural state and manufactured, and is considered wholesome in its various methods of preparation. It is very refreshing in its green state, mixed with
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