168 



MUSHROOMS, HOW TO GROW THEM. 



Ridges, Smoothing the, . . . 139 



The Covered,* 140 



■Watering the 139 



Roof, 35 



Roofs water-tight, 39 



Of Tin, 38 



■With Coating of Salt Hay, 38 



Salad Plants 10 



Sashes 46 



Secret, No, 14 



Shading on Sunny Days, . . 42 



Shaft, Chimney-like 16 



Shaft, Tall, Wooden, ..... 28 

 Shed, Open on South Side, . . 39 



Potting, 12 



■WarmPotting, 40 



The Term Applied, ... 40 



Tool, 12 



■Wood 12 



Sheds, Growing Mushrooms in, 39 



Unhealed, 40 



Shelves, Temporary Structures, 25 

 Shutters, Light 'Wooden, ... 63 



Slugs 127 



Attack Mushrooms In all 



Stages, 127 



Biting into Stems of Mush- 

 rooms, 127 



Fond of Mushrooms, . . . 127 

 How to Catch and Kill, . . 128 



Salt Distasteful to 128 



The Cause of "Bullet" or 



"Shot" Holes 128 



Soil, Conditions of for. Casing, 106 



Firming the, 196 



From Slopes and Dry Hol- 

 lows in woods, .... 101 

 Ordinary Garden, .... 101 

 Peat, or Swamp Muck, . . 101 



Sandy 101 



Sifting, for Casing, ... 105 



Southern States, 10 



Spawn 13 



American-made, 86 



Amount of Imported, . . 80 

 Another Method by La- 



chaume, 94 



Black Colored to be Avoided, 86 



Breaking, 23 



Brick,* 80 



Brick, Cut in Pieces for 



Planting,* 97 



Brick, How to Make, ... 87 



Brick, the Best 95 



Depth to Plant 98 



Effect of Heat and Moisture 



Upon, 83 



Effect of Severe Frost Upon, 83 



English 81 



English Brick 23 



Flake 82, 99 



Flake, Does Best under 



Cover 96 



Flake or French,* .... 82 



French 82 



French Flake, 24 



Homemade Around London, 137 



Spawn, How to Distinguish 



Good from Poor, .... 84 



How to Get, 79 



How to Keep, 83 



How to make French (Flake), 91 



Imported from Europe, . . 79 



In Leaf Beds 68 



In Manure, Do not Bury, . 10 



Inserting French or Flake, 98 

 Inserting more than Three 



Inches Deep 105 



Insuring Development of, . 49 

 Lachaume's Method of 



Making, 93 



Making, Distinct Branch, . 87 



Making French ■Virgin, . 92 



Mill-track 81 



Mr. J. Burton's Method of 



Making 90 



Natural, 81 



New Versus Old 83 



Never use Dibber in Plant- 

 ing, 98 



Other Recipes for Making, 89 



Planting of in Open Fields, 54 



Preparing the, 97 



Principal American Grow- 

 ers of 86 



Relative Merits of Flake 



and Brick, 94 



Signs of Sterility in, ... 85 



Simplest Way of Making, . 88 



Steeped 99 



The way in which it Comes, 81 



To tell Quality by Smell of, 85 

 Transplanting Pieces of 



■Working 99 



"Very Dead," 84 



"Very Living," 84 



Virgin 82, 91 



■What is Mushroom, ... 78 



■Where Obtained 79 



Spiders, Red, 12 



Spores, Myriads of 78 



Spurious Fungi 102 



Stable, Empty Stall in Horse, . 13 



Staging, Erecting Temporary, 46 



Stairway, 16 



In Pit, 32 



Standard Crop, 9 



Stoke-hole, 12 



Stove, Common Iron, .... 26 



Straw, Rye 47 



Sunlight, Protection from, . .' 10 



Temperature 10 



At Night 41 



About 57° Suitable, ... 23 



Fluctuations of, 15 



From 50° to 60° 18 



High 19 



IiiDosorls Cellars,. ... 109 



In Midwinter 33 



Low, 16 



Proper 75, 109 



Sudden Changes to be 



Avoided, 47 



Too High, Guard Against, 76 



