GROWING MUSHROOMS 
IN YOUR CELLAR 
O YOU know that mushrooms can be grown in your cellar or in a shed and _ pro- 
duce delicious mushrooms for several months from one planting? If you are not in 
the habit of eating fresh mushrooms you miss one of the most tasty and delicious of all 
table delicacies. 
Q Think of making beds in your cellar on a table or on shelves, or on the floor of an 
unused outhouse! The only requirements are comparative darkness, an even, low 
temperature, and pure culture spawn. The introduction of “ pure culture’ spawn two 
or three years ago, which created such interest and comment on account of its ease of 
culture, certain vitality and quality of yield, simplifies woncaerfully the raising of mush- 
rooms. 
@ Mushroom growing not only supplies your table with one of the most toothsome of 
dishes during the winter months, but it gives you the pleasure of gardening during the 
winter without a greenhouse or even 
a coldframe! And the expense of 
A SUCCESSFUL CROP GROWN IN THE CELLAR FROM PURE . awede, 
CULTURE SPAWN spawn is trivial. 
@ Now is the time to begin collecting the heating material for making beds to bear all 
winter. Get the spawn, too, so as to be ready as soon as the bed is right. 
@ Let us send you our booklet on mushroom culture which gives you the story in a 
nutshell, with illustrations, and tells about our pure culture spawn, with prices. It’s 
yours for the asking. 
PURE CULTURE SPAWN COMPANY, 
PACIFIC, MO. 
CHICACO BRANCH: 604 LA SALLE STREET 
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Such a handsome cover in gray and lemon yellow! Here’s a half-tone 
cut of it, The inside matter is absorbingly interesting from the hive on 
title page to the commutation ticket on page thirty-two. It gives pictures of 
ean Mr. A. I. Root in 1855, in 1873 and in 
S \ 1905. Also productions of Gleanings in 
es is Bee-Culture when it was first started in 1873 
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The eleven editors headed by 
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Country lifeinBmerten 
~~ -nd we are the right ones to talk greenhouses to. There are just 
‘finite hard and fast rules to be observed in greenhouse con- 
s. _ ction as in the making of an automobile—that is, if you really 
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of endless expense and disappointing results. You read of the 
wonderful things that the amateur does with his first year of © a 
home made greenhouse”’ but the disappointments of the sec- 
ond year are not recorded—save perhaps by a disgusted friend 
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vice unless you are going to do it in a thorough way. To 
meet the requirements of the would-be “ thorough-ways’’ we 
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GREENHOUSE DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS, 
Manufacturers of 
Heating and Ventilati g Apparatus, 
1170 BROADWAY ._ : : : NEW YORK. 
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