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SECT. VIII. CHAP. LX. 



Of the methods of raijtng mujhrooms. 



H E methods of raiCng munirooms Lord Ba^ 



Bacon, in \\\^ Natural Hift or y, CentNL^^^firoomsi 

 Exp. s^7, 548, 549. relates from report, 

 that the bark of white or red poplar 

 (which are of the moifteft trees) cut fmall 

 and cafl: into furrows well dung'd, will 

 caufe the ground to put forth muni- 

 rooms all the feafons of the year, fit to 

 be eaten 5 and that fome add to the mix- 

 ture leaven of bread diifoived in water. 

 As alfo, that if a hilly field where the 

 ftubble is {landing be fet on fire, in all 

 fliowry feafons it will put forth great 

 ftore of mufhrooms. To which he adds, 

 but it is upon report likewife, that harts- 

 horn fhaven into fmall pieces, rnix'd 

 with dung, and watered, putteth up 

 mufhrooms 5 and we know, fays he, that 

 hartshorn is of a fat clammy fubftance^ 

 and it may be oxhorn would do the 



like. 



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