OF GARD ENING. 
Sept. give the firft Swelling to the Sawn s and eine 
There appear fome upon the upper Part 
“————-. three fourths of it perifh. 
Sept. 
of it, where the Dung in a Manner touches 
‘When the firft Bed of Dung is thus laid, and the 
Earth is fpread over it, let the Gardener ‘go'round 
with a Parcel of his Spawn carefully breferwedl with 
the Earth about it, and lay ina Piece of Spawn 
with its Earth near the Edge at every ten Inches. - 
Over theie let there be {pread a frefh Covering of 
Earth three Inches thick, and upon that is to be 
laid another Bed of Dung’: this mutt be a: Foot 
thick ; and it muft be drawn in a little every | 
Way, that it may not over- hang and. ‘mother 
the Mutfhrooms: | | 
Upon this Bed of Bombs lay ‘isntlies Parcel of | 
the fame Mould five hides thick, and lay upon 
this fome more Knobs of the Spawn at equal | 
Diftances between each of the lower Parcels. 
Putno Mould over thefe; but bat; on fome 1 more 
Dales about eight Inches thick. 
Then lay on two more Beds if Dung and 
Mould as the laft, placing fome Spawn upon the | 
_confiderable Time, and will yield Muthrooms at 
_ Seafons when they. are not to be had from the 
Mould, at Diftances all the Way, ‘and working 
_ lp the whole, like the Ridge’ othe a cage 5 c 
a Kind of Edge. | é 
“When the Bed § is thus finithed go over’ Ht 
‘tarefisiig with a very little Water. This is a | 
nice Article, and the Succefs of the Plantation 
in a great meafure depends upon it. si 
The Intent of the Bed is, that it thall. get 
into a flow and gentle Fermentation ; and a | 
little Wet promotes this, but too > much utterly : 
| | | natural; for there muft ‘be more: Litter foread 
| over them. 
prevents it. 
- A three Gallon watering Pot i is enough for a 
twelve Foot Bed. 
Let this be given lightly and reglatty to 
every Part; and ‘then’ cover. the whole a Foot 
— with dry Litter. 
‘Leave: the Bed thus to Nature: ; the Principle 
of Vegetation is ftrong in the Spawn, and there 
requires only a due Proportion of Warmth, and 
a moift Vapour to fet it in Adtion. 
“This will be {applied by the Dung, and will 
_ make its Way gradually and equally among the 
Mould; till the Spawn will fwell; juft as it would 
do under the moft favourable natural Circum- 
ftances, = 
The common Practice ations much lefs Harti 
than is here directed ; but Experience has fhewn, 
that the Heat and Moifture of the Dung will In 
this Manner very well penetrate thus much of | 
the Mould; and that being allowed, the more : 
Earth there is for their Growth; the better they | 
will be; for though Dung be very affiftant in 
their proper Soil. 
Every one knows the Difference between Muth- 
rooms from the Bed, and thofe’ from the Field ; 
but the inferior Quality of the Bed Muthrooms 
is owing to the fmall Allowance of Earth, ‘and 
to the Gardeners not underftanding that Dung | 
is not their proper Nourifhment. . 
They have Mufhrooms quicker from the ufing 
a fmaller Quantity of Mould; but they are finer 
where there is more 5 and the Beds latt longer. 
This is feen by the Courfe of Nature in pro- 
ducing the Mufhrooms in this Bed, made as we 
have dir ected. 
ance of any, there will foon be more: 
large; for‘ that exhaufts the Spawn. 
the Spawn, fome Days before there are any 
feen on the lower, where they are well covered 
with Mould; but then thei firft Mufhrooms on 
the: upper Part are brown and rough ; whereas 
thofe which come a little after on the lower 
Part, are white, fmooth and fatteny on the Sur- 
face, and have the true wild Sweetnefs in teat 
Flavour. 3 
_ In about.a W. aii there will’ be rads Muth. 
rooms feen.; and when there is the firft Appear- 
the Bed 
muft be fearched, and ~e muft be ashe as 
_ they; ripen. - 
_. It is beft in. this young Condition éf’ the: Bed, 
not to let any of the Mufhrooms which rife crow 
It is an 
univerfal: Obfervation, ‘that the more regularly 
they are pulled, the more of them appear. - 
The Bed. thus made. will continue good a 
Fields; but the greateft Abundance from the 
Beds is always at the natural Seafon j in the Fields, 
that is, in Autumn. i Bet 
Two Things are rribit apt to be prejudicial to 
_ | a new-made Mufhroom Bed the Cold and 
Wet of the Beginning of © Somme and the 
breeding of Worms. | 
The Care to be ufed. agpinnt dhe firkt 5 is very 
_ This keeps in their own Heat, and 
defends elocen from the heavieft Rains, by the 
Affiftance of ;their own Shape, when made’as we > 
have directed; for the Wet runs off, and does 
not foak in when any get —— the Covering 
of Litter. 
The Woreie that infelt: a Milida rode: Bed are 
{mall and white: they are of the Maggot Kind, 
and are produced in the fame Manner. 
- T have known Millions in fome: fmall Spots, 
where they’ have devoured all the’ Rudiments 
or Spawn. 
_ The Muthroom when it grows large fimells 
ftrongly, like Flefh. This induces ote blag of 
feveral Kinds to blow it. 
They lay their Eges there, and foon hatch | in- 
to Maggots, or the fmall white Worms. 
Warmth ‘and Moifture are what they require 
for their Support, together with their Food ; and 
here they have all in Abundance; they thrive 
| therefore, and they devour at a Vaft Rate. 
promoting the Rife of “Muthtooms, it is not 
The Place where thefe Flies lay their Eggs, is 
| juft at the Bottom of the Stalk, and their Time of 
doing it, is when they are grown large and fwell. 
This, befide the exhaufting the Strength of 
| the Bed, is a preat Reafon why the Mufhrooms 
fhould never be fuffered tg remain on it til] 
grown very large. 
The common Prattice direéts the pulling them 
fooner ; and the common Doétrine is, that when 
they ftand to decay upon the Bed, they rot it. 
This is not the Reafon of the Damage which 
follows the leaving Mutfhrooms to take their full 
Growth, and to decay upon the Bed. 
They in that Cafe fow themfelves, and produce 
many 
