mushroom. ;37 3 



The author has observed that the upper 

 shelves in his Majesty's mushroom-house at 

 Kensington were equally or more productive 

 than those below: thus by good arrangement 

 a small shed, or even a closet, may be made 

 sufficient for the supply of a moderate family. 

 As mice will destroy the spawn or young 

 mushrooms, either traps must be set, or in- 

 gress allowed to their purring enemy. 



In the neighbourhood of London expe- 

 rienced mushroom-men go about at the pro- 

 per season, collecting vast quantities of spawn 

 for the supply of seedsmen, who sell it by 

 the bushel, the price varying according to the 

 favourableness of the weather when it is 

 collected. Since mushrooms have been so 

 much grown on hot-beds, and more minutely 

 attended to, the plant has been found so 

 perfect that it can either be raised by seed 

 or propagated by roots, the several fila- 

 ments at the root producing tubercles in 

 the manner of potatoes, from each of which 

 will arise new roots and a new plant or 

 flower. 



The following simple and easy method is 

 recommended for trying the quality of field- 

 mushrooms : take an onion, and strip the 

 outer skin, and boil it with them; if it re- 



