The Home Garden 



mushroom-growing that only the skilful and 

 experienced gardener can attain. In this he is 

 mistaken. Anyone can grow this delicious 

 vegetable in shed or cellar, provided the tem- 

 perature can be kept at from 55 to 65. 



Horse-manure is used in making the beds 

 for the reception of spawn. Work it over at 

 intervals of three or four days, until it is evenly 

 mixed. Never use it just as it comes from the 

 stable. Get the straw from bedding out of it as 

 well as you can, leaving nothing but the clear 

 manure. Never allow it to get wet. This is 

 important. 



Make the bed about ten inches deep. Pack 

 the manure down well. Insert a thermometer 

 and when it registers 80 or 90, put in the 

 spawn. Break the spawn into pieces about 

 the size of a silver quarter, and put a piece in 

 holes four or five inches deep, and about ten 

 inches apart. Cover evenly, and wait for 

 about ten days, then examine. If the spawn 

 was good and fresh, and has done its work 

 properly by sending out its thread-like fila- 

 ments through the soil in all directions, cover 

 the bed with fresh earth of a loamy nature 

 and press it down well. Put on this soil to 



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