3 26 The Tra5fical Kitchen Gardiner. 



Other ex- The fame author, in his S^6th Ex- 

 periments p^Yitnent before-^oins;, complains that 



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author, the quautics or theie mulnrooms are apt 

 to fufrocate and cmpoifon, and that they 

 lie heavy at the ftomach, and are the 

 caufe of what he calls the inciihiSy or 

 night mare. 



But to purfue the pradice of raifing 

 niufhrooms j we find the antient pradice 

 of our gardiners has been only to make 

 hot beds, or rather to exped them to 

 grow naturally on cold beds 5 by which 

 they appear to fpring from the old mouldy 

 dung, as they do in commons and upland 

 fields, from thofe circular trads of moul- 

 dy earth that are there found, called by 

 fome the fairy dances. 



And thefe old beds, w^ien they are 

 watered with water wherein mufhrooms 

 have been wafh'd, will produce an in- 

 numerable quantity for fome months to- 

 gether. And to this may be added, 

 what I have feen in fome old books of 

 gardening, that beds made of old dry 

 mouldy hay, thatch, or mufty dung, and 

 watered as you miake it up, will raife 

 mufhrooms very well. 



French But the French (and amongfl: them Mr. 



Z'lifing^ T^^l^^^intinye) are generally fo curious 



mufhrooms, m 



