J 28 The TraB'tcal Kitchen Gardiner, 



r,r^ltaiian But Mr. EvelyYi tells us, that at Na- 

 method cfpi^^ ^-j^^y j^-^jf^ them artificially in their 



^y^rl/^/. wine cellars, upon a heap of rock earth, 

 thrown upon a heap of old fungus's re- 

 duced and compared to a ftony hardi- 

 nefs, upon which they lay earth, and 

 fprinkle it with warm water, in which 

 mufhrooms have been fteep'd. And in 

 France by making a bed of affes dung, 

 and when the heat is in temper or is 

 abated, watering it as above, with water 

 well impregnated with the parings and 

 offals of fungus's 5 and fuch a bed 

 will laft three or four years. 



But more agreeable to reaibn (if it hits 

 fo well in experience) is the method Mr. 

 Bradley hints at, which I fhall produce 

 in the laft place, being much to our pre- 

 lent purpofe. By this it is (lays that in- 

 genious author) that all lovers of mufh- 

 rooms are to be reminded of looking 

 out into the fields and upland meadows, 

 where mulhrooms grow, under which 

 they will find a fort of earth that is a- 

 bout their roots, which is full of fine 

 white fibres or threads, which have alfo 

 fometimes white knots appearing, which 

 contain all that is ncceffary for the pro- 

 duction of mufhrooms, at any time of 



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