48 MUSHROOM CULTURE. 



ing due south, when the sun fell upon it the atmosphere 

 became rather ( tarry' so much so that the mushrooms 

 refused to grow in it. That wore off after a time, and 

 from a bed not more than thirty yards square the tenant 

 told me he had cut more than 25/. worth of mushrooms. 

 When I saw the beds they might be considered spent, 

 the flush of early youth was over ; but still the crop was 

 most wonderful, especially considering the means at com- 

 mand. 



" In the rock cellar the small beds were a pavement 

 of splendid mushrooms, many of them as large over as a 

 cheese-plate, and thick in proportion. In the garden is 

 a barn four walls with a roof over them, the latter so 

 rude that it was only in fair weather that it could be 

 called waterproof. In this place, which may be 25 ft. 

 long by 15 ft. wide, two tiers of beds have been put up, 

 the roof has been made waterproof, a common brick flue 

 put through it, and, at the time I saw them, more pro- 

 mising beds could not be desired. Here again, you will 

 perceive expensive appliances are not necessary for the 

 production of mushrooms " 



Stables and like structures offer capital positions in 

 which successful mushroom culture may be carried out 



with ease 







If it is possible, and we know it is not only possible 

 but easy, to grow mushrooms in boxes a few feet long and 

 a foot or eighteen inches wide, and the same depth, it is 



