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and press it firmly down ; then lay in pieces of spawn, and top with loamy 

 soil, placing it in a warm place, as under the stage in a warm greenhouse or 

 stove, forcing-house or pit, or even a hotbed frame. They come into bearing 

 rather quicker than on a bed in a mushroom-house : they are often grown on 

 shelves, the house being quite dark and furnished with hot-water pipes. 

 This is the most satisfactory mode of growing them, the other being a make- 

 shift. In this case, a mixture of horse-, cow-, and sheep-dung, loam, and road- 

 sand, is well worked together, and placed on the shelves, mixed with pieces of 

 spawn, and the whole pressed firmly down, and heat applied of an average 

 of 70° : vapom'-troughs should be provided, for the mushroom will not bear a 

 dry heat. Water should be applied when required, but very gently, and 

 ^rather sparingly than otherwise, and of a temperature leather above that of 

 'the bed at the time. 



975. Tender Annuals should novr he sovra in heat, and half-hardy ones in 

 cold-frames. Pot or prick off any that may be up. Balsams, cockscombs, 

 and globe amaranths, still require heat, and should be kept near the glass, to 

 prevent being drawn up. Cuttings of all soft-wooded plants should now 

 be struck in great numbers for bedding out : they root and grow freely in 

 hotbeds. 



976. Salads may still be sown in cold-frames, and a good plan is to move 

 he frames from place to place, merely using them to protect the seeds from 



tirds ; or a frame placed over rhubarb will bring it on fast : lettuces_, &c., may 

 be urged on in the same way. F. Cc 



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