13(5 THE FORGING GARDENER. [fi. I. 



ones, which are jult peeping through the 

 furface are unavoidably deftrpyed. 



Little light or air (except when the bed 

 is in preparation) being eflential to the 

 production of mufhrooms, they may be 

 raifed as fuccefsfully in the back-fhed, 

 ftable, or cellar, as in- any other way ; but 

 where they are required at all tiines of the 

 year, a compartment where fire-heat may 

 be commanded is indifpenfably neceflary. 

 Fig. 2. Plate IV. reprefents the plan of a 

 mufhroom-houfe, wrought; by one fire, and 

 divided for the purpofe of producing them 

 in fucceffion, on a conftrudtion that has 

 given much fatisfadtion for many years. 

 It is of little confequence in what fituation 

 it is placed, provided the bottom be dry ; 

 and the roof may either be of flate, tile, 

 or of thatch. 



Where there is neither fhed nor ftable, 

 &c. rather than make up the bed in the 

 open air, and be under the inconvenient 

 necellity of covering the furface with 

 ftraw, &c. let a frame in form of the roof 

 of a houfe compofed of half-inch boards, 

 be made to any convenient length, and to 

 tjie \yidth of fix feet at bottom : This two 



people 



