CH, 7-] MUSHROOMS. 



CHAPTER VII. 



MUSHROOMS. 



SECTION I. 



On tie Confer uEiion oftfa MuJbroom-Hovfe. 



THIS vegetable is much in requefl in. 

 many families at all times of the 

 year ; and fome have compartments built 

 folely for its production ; but it is gene- 

 rally produced in the back flieds of hot- 

 houfes or green-houfes, cellars, ends of 

 ftables, &c. and fometimes on beds built 

 in the open air, and proteded by cover- 

 ings of draw or other litter. This laft is 

 attended with much inconvenience, not on- 

 ly on account of the difficulty of effectu- 

 ally flickering the bed from the inclemen- 

 cy of the weather in Winter, but that in 

 covering and uncovering at the time of 

 gathering the crop, many .of the young 

 1 4 ones, 



