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no lefs perfect Plants than thoCe of 

 greater Magnitude, having Roots, 

 Branches, Flowers, and Seeds, but 

 yet cannot be propagated from the 

 iatter by any Art. 



The Botanifts diflinguifh thefe 

 into feveral Genera, under each of 

 which are feveral .Species ; but as 

 they are Plants of no Ufe or Beauty, 

 ib it would be to no purpofe to enu- 

 merate them in this Place. 



Thele Plants chiefly flourifh in 

 cold Countries, and in the Winter 

 Sealbn, and are many times very 

 injurious to Fruit-Trees, which 

 grow upon cold, barren Soils, or 

 where they are i^o clofe planted as 

 to exclude the free Accels of Air : 

 The only Remedy in luch Cafes is 

 to cut down Part of the Trees, and 

 plough up the Ground between 

 thofe left remaining, and in the 

 Spring of the Year, in moift Wea- 

 ther, you khould, with an Iron In- 

 ftrument made a little hollow, the 

 better to furround the Branches of 

 the Trees, fcrape off the Mofs, car- 

 rying it off the Place ■■, and by two 

 or three times thus cleanling them, 

 together with caretuUy ftirring the 

 Ground, it maybe entirely dellroy'd 

 from the Trees ; But if you do not 

 cut down part of the Trees, and 

 ftir the Ground well, the rubbing 

 off the Mofs will lignify little, for 

 the Caufe not being remov'd, the 

 Etfedl will not ceafe, but the Mofs 

 will, in a fhort Time, be as trou- 

 blefome as ever. 



MUSHROOMS i are, by many 

 Perfbns, fuppos'd to be produced 

 from the Putretadlion or the Dung, 

 Earth, (^c. in which they are found j 

 but notwithftanding this Notion is 

 pretty generally received amongft 

 the unthinking Part of Mankind, 

 yet, by the curious Naturalifts, they 

 are efteemM perfedl Plants, though 

 their Flowers and Seeds have not. 



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as yet, been difcover'd. But fmce 

 they may, and are annually propa- 

 gated by the Gardeners near Londmy 

 and are (the efculent Sort of them) 

 greatly efteem'd, by mod curious 

 Palates, io I fliall briefly fet down 

 the Method praftis'd by the Gar- 

 deners who cultivate them for 

 Sale. 



But, fir ft, it will net be impro- 

 per to give a fhort Defcription of 

 the true eataole Kind, lincc there 

 are feveral unwholfome Sorts which 

 have been, by unskilful Perfons, ga- 

 thcr'd for the Table. 



The true Chamfignion, or Ma- 

 (loroom, appears at firltofa roundilli 

 Form, like a Button, the upper Part 

 of which, as alfo the Stalk, \^ very 

 white, but being open'd, the under 

 Part is of a livid Flelb-colour, but 

 the fleftiy Part, when broken, is 

 very white: when thefe are fuffer'd 

 to remain undifturb'd, they will 

 grow to a large Size, and explicate 

 themfeives almolt to a Flatncfs, and 

 the red Part underneath will change 

 to a dark Colour. 



In order to cultivate them, if you 

 have no Beds in your own, or in 

 neighbouring Gardens, which pro- 

 duce them, you fliould look abroad 

 in rich Pafcures, during the Months 

 o'i Augufl and Sepember, until you 

 find 'em (that being the Seafon when 

 they are produced) then you fhould 

 open the Ground about the Roots of 

 llidMHjlrooms, where you will find 

 the Earth, very often, full of fmall 

 white Knobs, which are the Off-fets 

 or young Mnflnooms ; thefe fhould 

 be carctuUy gathered, preierving 

 them in Lumps with the Earth 

 about them j then being provided 

 with a Parcel of new Horle-dung, 

 you fhould {hake out the Litter, if 

 there be any amongfl it, and caft it 

 up into a Heap, for feven or eight 

 Days, to heat,- then you iliouiddig 



