. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. MU S 386 M U S apart, vvith slides, s, to ventilate with when necessary. Fig. 102. When the outside of the house is j the standards. The flue to commence finished, a floor or ceiling is made over ! at the end of the house next the door, it, as high as the top of the outside 1 and running the whole length to return walls, of boards one inch thick, and i back paralleled, and communicate with plastered on the upper side, e tf, with the chimney; the walls of the insides road sand, well wrought together, an to be the height of four bricks laid flat, in
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. MU S 386 M U S apart, vvith slides, s, to ventilate with when necessary. Fig. 102. When the outside of the house is j the standards. The flue to commence finished, a floor or ceiling is made over ! at the end of the house next the door, it, as high as the top of the outside 1 and running the whole length to return walls, of boards one inch thick, and i back paralleled, and communicate with plastered on the upper side, e tf, with the chimney; the walls of the insides road sand, well wrought together, an to be the height of four bricks laid flat, inch thick; square trunks,/, being leltiand six inches wide; this will allow a in the ceiling nine inches in diameter,} cavity, f, on each side betwixt the flues, up the middle of the house, at six feet; two inches wide, to admit the heat from their sides into the house. The middle cavity, x i/,should be covered with tiles, leaving a space of one inch betwixt each. The top of the flue, including the co- vering, should not be higher than the walls that form the fronts of the floor beds. The wall itself is covered with three rows of tiles, the centre one co- vering the cavity x y, as before men- tioned, the outside cavities, / t, are left uncovered. As the compost, the formation of the beds, &c., are very difl^erent from the common practice, I shall give a con- nected view ofMr. Oldaker's directions. The compost employed is fresh horse- dung, which has been subject neither to wet nor fermentation, cleared of the long straw, but one-fourth of the short litter allowed to remain, with one-fourth of dry turf mould, or other fresh earth : this enables the bed to be made solid and compact, which is so congenial to the growth of mushrooms. The beds are to be made by placing a layer of the above compost, three inches thick, on the shelves and floor, which must be beat as close as possible with a flat mallet, fresh layers being added and consolidated until the bed is seven inches thick,
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