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A fair and certain crop can be obtained by planting 

 pieces of spawn in the beds here and there between the 

 plants and where they will be least likely to be soaked 

 with water. In order to further insure the development 

 of the spawn, holes about the size of a pint cup should 

 be scooped out here and there over the bed, and filled up 

 solidly with quite fresli but dry horse droppings, with the 

 piece of spawn in the middle, and covered over on top 

 with an inch of loam, so as to leave the whole surface of 

 the bed level. So small a quantity of dry manure sur- 

 rounded with cold earth will not heat perceptibly, and 

 the moisture of the loam about it will soon moisten it, 

 no matter how dry it may be. The dry, fresh droppings 

 are the very best material for starting the mycelium 

 into growth. 



Growing Mushrooms in Rose houses. — George 

 Savage, the head gardener at Mr. Kimball's greenhouses, 

 Rochester, N. Y., grows mushrooms very successfully 

 under the benches of the rose houses. When he makes 

 up his earliest mushroom beds in the fall the rose house 

 is kept cool, and this is an advantage to the mushroom 

 beds, which get all the warmth they need from the fer- 

 menting manure ; but as November advances, and the 

 heat in the beds begins to wane the rose houses are 

 "started," and this artificial warmth comes in good sea- 

 son to benefit the growing mushrooms. The roses, in 

 this case, are planted out on benches, hence there is 

 scarcely any dripping of water from above upon the 

 mushroom beds below. 



Mr. George Grant, of Mamaroneck, N. Y., who grows 

 mushrooms in the greenhouse, I called to see last Jan- 

 nary, and was very much pleased with his simple and 

 successful method. The beds were then in fine bearing, 

 very full, and the crop was of the best quality. The 

 beds were made upon the earthen floor of his tomato- 

 forcing house and under tha back bench. The bed was 

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