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• • GARDENING. 



Feb. /, 



BOOKS ON MUSflROOMS. 



1. Where can I get a good treatise on 

 mushroom culture and what will it cost? 

 2. There are some books published by 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture shovv- 

 ing the pictures of edible and poisonous 

 fungi and how to tell them, also how to 

 cook mushrooms, where can I get them. 



St. Catharines, Out. J. M. 



1. Get Mushrooms: How to grow 

 THEM. It tells the whole stor3' as fully 

 and plainly as a practical mushroom 

 grower knows how to do it. The price is 

 $1.50. It can be had from the publisher 

 of Gardening, Monon Building, Chicago. 



2. Apply to the Secretary of Agricult- 

 ure, Washington, D. C. 



"My mushroom bed," writes a sub- 

 scriber, "made and spawned most cart- 

 fully, has failed through the temperature 

 of November having been so unusually 

 low I suppose, for I can account for it in 

 no other way. It fell to 50° and often 

 lower. W'ould not this prevent a crop? 

 Will this bed ever bear? It seems even 

 now in good condition, but cold, and the 

 spawn has run." If the spawn has run 

 and is still white and living-like, don't 

 despair; in due time you are likely to get 

 mushrooms. While mushrooms will grow 

 at 50°, they will do better at 55°; ten 

 degrees lower will not kill the spawn pro- 

 viding the bed is not overwet, the spawn 

 will merely suspend growth, or as it were 

 rest till warmth and other congenial con- 

 ditions favor its active development. 



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