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the year 5 and muft be kept dry till you 

 ufe it on your mufhroom beds, for the 

 white roots or fibres are To tender that 

 they are apt to rot, if laid in moift 

 places. The firft that fhew'd me this 

 kind of earth, was Mr. Bradley^, who 

 has alfo given fome account of it in 

 his monthly experiments printed for Mr. 

 Woodwardy bookfeller at the Half-moon 

 near Temple-Bar , fmce which I have 

 causd fome to be dug up, which have 

 thofe fibres there mention d , but I have 

 not yet had the opportunity of trying 

 the experiment. 



This earth may. according to the ac- 

 count I had of Mr. Bradley himfeJf, be 

 kept for a twelvemonth together in large 

 clods, in a dry room 5 and when you 

 have a mind to plant any, put fome of 

 the clods on your bed, and crumble 

 them as gently as you can 5 after which 

 cover it over about half an inch thick 

 with good mold, and you may give the 

 bed a gentle watering; which done, lay 

 fome boughs of wood over the bed, and 

 if there be any danger of froft, cover 

 it with mats in the night. But you muft 

 note, that a bed made roundifh is much 

 projperer for this purpofe than one made 



flat, 



