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A FOREWORD. 



This Handbook has been written to meet the requirements 

 of amateur gardeners who need guidance as to the various 

 methods of growing mushrooms for home consumption. Our 

 aim has been to supply information in as concise and lucid 

 a manner as possible on the culture of the mushroom on 

 ridges or beds in the open air, in boxes and tubs in cellars, 

 etc. ; under greenhouse staging; in old hotbeds or in frames; 

 also in pastures. No pains have been spared to make every 

 phase of the art plain and easy to understand, in order that 

 even the merest novice may follow with hope of certain 

 success. 



To render the volume of still greater value to the amateur 

 we have not only instructed him how to grow mushrooms, 

 but also how to cook them in various appetising ways. There 

 is no vegetable so delicious as the mushroom, if properly 

 cooked; and if the reader will only prepare the produce 

 according to one of the recipes given, he will appreciate it 

 to a far greater extent than he has hitherto done. 



Then, we know there are many country readers who in 

 summer and autumn come across a great number of fungi 

 o-rowing in woodland, upland, and mead, but are unaware 



