CHAPTER VIII. 



CULTURE IN GARDENS, ETC.,, WITH OTHER CROPS IK 

 THE OPEN AIR. 



PHIS is a phase of culture which may be pursued to great 

 advantage in r every private garden, almost without cost 

 and attention. The low ridge-like hotbeds, for example, 

 made for both long and short prickly cucumbers, gourds, 

 marrows, &c., are admirably suited for growing a crop 

 of mushrooms under the leaves of the subjects for which 

 they were made. If the spawn be inserted soon after 

 the beds are made, or at aoy convenient time in early 

 summer, the beds will come into bearing in due course. 

 Perhaps they may do so when mushrooms are found 

 abundantly in the fields ; but there are thousands of 

 persons possessing gardens who have no fields in which 

 to cull mushrooms, and who would like to gather them 

 fresh in summer or autumn, if they could not afford to 

 grow them in any covered structure in winter. And this 

 is but one way in which they may be grown with summer 

 garden crops, as will appear from the following commu- 

 nication, by Mr. Ayres, to tke Field ; > 



