Mushrooms, How to Grow Them. 



CHAPTER I. 



THOSE WHO SHOULD GEOW MUSHKOOMS, 



Market Gardeners. — The mushroom is a highly 

 prized article of food which can be as easily grown as 

 many other vegetable products of the soil — and with as 

 much pleasure and profit. Below it is shown, in partic- 

 ular, that this peculiar plant is singularly well adapted 

 to the conditions that surround many classes of persons, 

 and by whom the mushroom might become a standard 

 crop for home use, the city market, or both. It is 

 directly in their line of business ; is a winter crop, re- 

 quiring their care when outdoor operations are at a 

 standstill, and they can most conreniently attend to 

 growing mushrooms. They have the manure needed 

 for their other crops, and they may well use it first for 

 a mushroom crop. After having borne a crop of mush- 

 rooms it is thoroughly rotted and in good condition for 

 early spring crops ; and for seed beds of tomatoes, let- 

 tuces, cabbages, cauliflowers, and other vegetables, it is 

 the best kind of manure. 



Years ago market gardening near New York in winter 

 was carried on in rather a desultory way, and the supply 

 of salads and other forced vegetables was limited and 

 mostly raised in hotbeds and other frames, and prices 



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