Sept.] 



The Kitchen Garden. 415 



This is now to be managed in the manner as direded 

 laft month ; and the fuckers are alfo to be treated ac- 

 cording to the method there mentioned. 



Likewife take care of the crowns on the tops of the 

 pine-apples ; thefe alfo ferve for propagation : when the 

 fruit has been ferved at table, the crown fhould be taken 

 off with a gentle twill, and this fhould be returned, in 

 ®rder to be planted. 



The management of the crowns now is alfo the fame 

 as in the forme/ month. 



SEPTEMBER. 



M^ork to be done in* the Kitchen Garden. 



Mujhrooms, 



TH PS is now the feafon to begin to prepare. the dung 

 for making mufliro*om-beds. 



Thefe beds fhould be made of the befl- warm horfe- 

 ftable dung, and about the beginning of this month yon 

 may get fome, that is frefh and good, ready for that pur- 

 pofe ; taking the long raoifl litter. and fhort dung toge- 

 ther, and the whole well intermixed. 



But before you work the dung up in a bed, it fhouM 

 be toiled up together in a heap till the firft great heat is 

 over; this is generally eiFected in a fortnight or three* 

 weeks time, _or thereabouts, it will then be in right or- 

 der, and you may-proceed to make the bed. 



But before you make the bed it is proper to provide a 

 fufficient quantity of good muihroom- fpawn : this is a 

 material article; and a proper quantity mull be pro- 

 cured to plant into the bed to produce the mulhroomsj 

 for this fpawn contains the plants in embryo. 



This is frequently found in the dung of old cucumber 

 or melon, or other decayed dung hot-beds; it is alfo 

 often to be met with in dung-hills, which have lain fix or 

 eight months or more ; fpawn is alfo to be found in paf- 

 ture fields, and lliould be fearched for in thofe places 

 where you fee muihrooms rife naturally ; but I generally 

 T 4. prefer 



