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ering with moist earth ; waste no time in getting them to their places; cut or 

 strip off most of the foliage, and, ordinarily, there will be no serious losses. The 

 gain of this mode over the first mentioned is in the saving of labor and time, 

 as the carrying of a ball of earth with each plant, if only for a few rods, will not 

 be an amusement after a few hours. 



Blackberries can be transplanted the same way with perfect success. With 

 due attention at the time of starting a plantation of either of these fruits, the 

 labor of carrying the young plants any great distance maybe avoided, even with 

 a ball of earth adhering. It is customary to set them about four feet apart in the 

 rows, and the rows from six to eight feet apart. At eight by four, an acre will 

 require thirteen hundred and sixty-one plants. If the cultivator, for any cause, 

 desired to start an acre from one-fourth of this number, he would need only to 

 scatter his plants over the whole acre, but at regular distances, so that the va- 

 cancies and the plants would be duly proportioned. Then the labor of carrying 

 the balls of earth long distances would be avoided, as well as the possible risks 

 of the other system. 



Raspberries and blackberries transplanted in this way will bear a fair crop 

 the second year ; that is, the second year of their existence. Treated in the 

 usual mode, they never bear until the third year ; and, so far as I can see, are 

 no better. Philip Snyder. 



ViNELAND, N.J., 1869. 



Mushroom-Culture. — I have hesitated about writing respecting mush- 

 room-culture, so much has been written already ; but my plan is so simple and 

 successful, that I must state it and the results. 



The place in which the mushrooms are grown was originally the stoke-hole 

 for two of Weeks's tubular boilers, which are now removed some distance from 

 the houses ; and the sides of the underground stoke-hole have been converted 

 into beds for mushrooms, the end boarded up for sea-kale. There are two six- 

 inch flow and return pipes from the boilers, forty yards off, to heat a block of 

 seven houses ; and these two pipes pass through the old stoke-hole under the 

 arched roof 



The first bed was made Oct. 5 from droppings collected from the stable, 

 which had been placed in an open shed, and kept turned until there was a suffi- 

 cient quantity. They were then put in the bed, well beaten down, spawned when 

 the heat was on the decline (at eighty-five degrees), and soiled with two inches of 

 stiff yellow loam. The first dish was gathered Nov. 10 ; and since that time I 

 have had thirty-one dozen from a bed nine feet long, three feet wide, and ten 

 inches deep. I have just gathered five dozen more. There are a hundred and 

 ten, averaging three inches across the top, fit to be taken ; and the bed is com- 

 pletely white with small mushrooms the size of peas and upwards. 



The second bed, spawned Nov. 5, is showing the little globules all over. I 

 have made two more beds for successions, with room for eight more of the same- 

 sized beds : so there will be no lack of mushrooms throughout the winter. Of 

 the hundred and ten, I have cut six which weighed nine ounces. — English 

 Journal of Horticulture. 



