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 



FIG. 3. 



FIG. 2. 



FIG. 1. 



FIG. 34. END SECTIONS OP MUSHROOM HOUSE AND OUT-DOOR MUSHROOM BEDS. 



References. Fig. 1: a a a, outer walls and ceiling of house; c, the ventilator; 

 ODD, the framework of the beds; EEEE, the beds; /, bed of cold water for 

 vapour, and to prevent the woodlouse and beetles getting to the mushrooms ; G, 

 one flow-and-returii 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 



