94 MUSHROOM CULTURE. 



grown in the same manner under field-turnips, mangold- 

 wurtzel, &c. The spawn which could be so easily pre- 

 pared by any farmer, could be readily inserted in the 

 sides of the drills in which these crops are usually grown, 

 the slight elevation of which, by preserving the spawn 

 from excessive wet, will favour its development, and it 

 would take possession of, and impregnate the manure 

 in the drill. In fact, prodigious quantities might be 

 raised in this and similar ways, with but little trouble; 

 and' should the fields be afterwards laid down, as is not 

 uncommonly the case, the pasture or meadow would 

 probably become a regular mushroom-ground. 



