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GARDENING. 



Nov. /, 



bed is wanted now is a good time to 

 plant it. Divide an old stool, leaving 

 two or three eyes to each piece. Open a 

 trench a foot deep, dig in plenty of good 

 rotten manure and set the plants not less 

 than three feet apart, four is better, and 

 cover in with earth. When the ground 

 freezes put on a good mulching of manure 

 which can be dug in around the plants 

 when they appear in spring. 



Spinach: Keep the bed cultivated until 

 frost. Have ready some covering, salt hay 

 or sedge or other material which will be 

 applied when severe weather approaches. 



Turnips should now cover the ground. 

 Pull before freezing weather. 



Currants, Gooseberries and Grapes 

 may be increased by cuttings of this year's 

 wood. Make them now, and set them in 

 rows where they can stand for a year. 

 Set them three or four inches apart, well 

 down, and firm the ground each side of 

 the rows. 



Strawberries should be kept clean, and 

 all late runners cut off when hoeing. 

 Later, before applying theirwinter cover- 

 ing, give a top-dressing with rotten 

 manure. It will wash into the ground 

 during the winter, and will speak for 

 itself later on. P. F. 



Market Gardener, New Kochelle, N. Y., 

 October 10, 1896. 



EARLY MUSHROOMS. 



I wish you could see my mushroom bed 

 it is in fine form it is just in one mass of 

 small mushrooms, and it has only been 

 spawned a month. This is very early for 

 the mushrooms to come up, indeed I was 

 quite surprised when I took the straw off 

 this morning. I tried some experiments 

 with it, all in the same bed which is 30 

 feet long by 4 1 2 feet wide. I cased part 

 of it with dry cow manure alone, and it 

 is on this part that the mushrooms are 

 best; next to this, used cow manure 

 mixed with soil in equal parts, and then 

 plain soil, in the soil alone mushroomsare 

 very few coming yet. Do you think the cow 

 manure has anything to do with the earli- 

 ness of the crop. I should like to here 

 from you on the subject, the bed was put 

 in on the 3th of September and spawned 

 on the 13th giving the mushrooms just a 

 month to come up. [The dryish cow 

 manure has had a most salutory effect 

 upon the bed in fact so much did the old 

 growers appreciate co«v manure for mush- 

 rooms that it almost invariably formed a 

 part of their bed, and to this day the 

 makers of mushroom spawn regard it as 

 indispensable.— [Ed.] David Fraser. 



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