Culture of Mushrooms at Vienna. 



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may be then spawned, which obviates all that fear about the 

 bed getting overheated which is so common among gar- 

 deners. A bed of this kind will keep a good moderate heat 

 thrice the length of time another will, made wholly of new 

 dung: consequently it will bear three times as long. Be- 

 sides there are other advantages arising from this mode ; you 

 can make three beds for one, and with the same quantity of 

 new dung. There are many small families, who have only 

 two or three horses, which makes it difficult to have mush- 

 rooms, all owing to the mistaken notion, that the bed must 

 be wholly composed of new droppings ; because, by the time 

 a sufficient quantity of these droppings are collected, one half 

 of them has become useless. I am, Sir, &c. 



Thomas Forrest. 

 Kinmel Park, February 8. 1826. 



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Art. IX. Description of a Mode of growing Mushrooms on 

 the Floor of a Green-house, as practised in the Neighbour- 

 hood of Vienna. By Mon. Napoleon Bauman, Junior, of 

 Bollwiller, on the Upper Rhine. 



Dear Sir, 

 During a stay of eleven months at Vienna, in 1825 and 

 1826, I had an 

 opportunity of ob- 

 serving a very 

 simple and eco- 

 nomical method 

 of growing mush- 

 rooms, which I 

 have great plea- 

 sure in communi- 

 cating to you, 

 with a view of 

 adding to the in- 

 teresting and va- 

 ried information 

 contained in your 

 valuable Maga- 

 zine. The prac- 

 tice I am about 

 to relate is so 

 simple, that it 



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