CHAPTER VI. 
ON FORCING THE MUSHROOM. 
In some localities the chief difficulty in getting Mush- 
rooms by artificial means is the liability of this fine 
sauce vegetable to be attacked by that insidious enemy 
the woodlouse (Oniscus). This enemy of the Mushroom 
Lililid: 
Vif ff 4 f/f : — SSS SS=a 
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Fic, 3. Fig. 2. Fia@. 1, 
Fig. 34.—END SECTIONS OF MUSHROOM HOUSE AND OUT-DOOR MUSHROOM BEDS. 
References.—Fig. 1: aaa, outer walls and ceiling of house; c, the ventilator ; 
DDD, the framework of the beds; EEEE, the beds; jf, bed of cold water for 
vapour, and to prevent the woodlouse and beetles getting to the mushrooms; G&G, 
one flow-and-return three-inch pipe, for heating the house; h, the pathway, 
Fig. 2: Lean-to out-door bed. Fig. 3: Span-roof out-door bed for summer work. 
grower is hard to avoid in wooded, rocky, and dry 
districts. It is most remarkably fond of the Mushroom, 
and commits its depredations while the gardener is 
asleep. To get Mushrooms in such places more than 
ordinary means must be resorted to; but old cellars and 
