CHAPTER V. 



GROWING MUSHROOMS IN GREENHOUSES. 



Any one who has a greenhouse can grow mushrooms 

 in it. And it does not matter what kind of greenhouse 

 it is, whether a fruit house, a flower house, or a vegeta- 

 ble house, it is available for mushrooms. One of the 

 advantages of raising mushrooms in a greenhouse is that 

 they grow to perfection in parts of the greenhouse that 

 are nearly worthless for other purposes ; for instance, 

 under the stages, where nothing else grows well, although 

 rhubarb and asparagus might be forced there, and a 

 little chicory and dandelion blanched. 



Cool greenhouses, in all cases, are better for mush- 

 rooms than hothouses. Cool houses are seldom kept at 



Fig. 11. Boxed Mushboom Bed under Gkeenhouse Bench. 



a, lower temperature than 45° or 50° in winter, while 

 hothouses run from 60° to 70° at night, with a rise of 

 ten to twenty degrees by day, and this is too hot for 

 mushrooms. It is a very easy matter, by means of cov- 



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