GUOWIXG MUSHROOMS IX CELLARS. ;37 



lar, and ascribes liis best successes to Lis most tliorough 

 cleaiiin;^-. Every summer he cleans out his cellars and 

 limewashes all over. 



Mr. Van Siclen's Method — Mr. Abram Van Sic- 

 len, of Jamaica, L. 1., also grows mushrooms very exten- 

 sively in underground cellars, whoss arrangements do 

 not differ materially from those of Mr. Denton's, except 

 in his manner of heating. He runs an immense green- 

 house vegetable-growing establishment, as well as a sum- 

 mer truck farm, and uses hot water heating ajiparatus, 

 also smoke flues as employed ordinarily in greenhouses, 

 especially lettuce houses. The sheet is on pipes, except 

 in squash houses, he does not hold in much favor. 



The Dosoris Mushroom Cellar. — This is a subter- 

 ranean tunnel or cellar that was excavated and arched 

 some ten years ago, expressly for the cultivation of mush- 



FIG. 3. CBOSS-SECTIOX of the DOSOItIS MUSHKOOM CELLAR. 



rooms. It is situated in an open, sunny part of the 

 garden, and its extreme length from outside of end walls 

 is eightv-three feet : but of this space nine feet at either 



