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crop under these conditions. The cause of the failure 

 in the latter case has without a doubt been the too wet 

 and overheated (at one time) condition of the manure, 

 leaving it as it were dead and without any recuperative 

 power. At another time the spawn may be at fault, 

 or the quality of the manure, its having been collected 

 from drugged horses, may be the cause. However, 

 these failures are the exception and not the rule, and 

 should be no discouragement to the increased growth 

 of this crop as a commercial undertaking, especially in 

 the suburbs of cities, where manure is plentiful and 

 cheap, as it is one of the most remunerative crops of 

 the garden to grow. 



Mushroom Growing in Open Sheds. The growth 

 of the Mushroom in the open shed is had recourse to 

 more in the private garden perhaps than in the market 

 garden, with the object of securing crops in the hot 

 weather from the end of June to the end of September, 

 when they cannot be well grown in the Mushroom 

 house proper. Any outbuilding will do that has a 

 roof over its walls, but preference should be given to 

 that part of it which may face the north. Here let 

 a bed be formed exactly on the same lines as advised 

 for the house (only it should be twelve inches deep) 

 and spawned as directed as soon as the conditions are 

 favourable, the surface soil smoothed and made firm. 

 The same must be covered over to the depth of five 

 or six inches with the long littery straw shaken out 

 of the manure when preparing for the Mushroom bed. 

 We are presuming that every precaution has been 



