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up green, and healthy, when they arc 

 not debar d of air, nor fuiFocated with 

 the fleam or vapour that arifcs from the 

 bed. For as the earth is not plac'd all o- 

 ver the bed or ridge, into which you put 

 your plants, the fiery heat has room to e- 

 vaporate, and wafte it felf on each fide 

 theglafs, and the chimney gives liberty 

 to that which is included in the glafs 5 fo 

 that you are now guarded, as I faid, againft 

 one of the chief misfortunes attending 

 the raifing and ridging of young plants. 



The raifing of mufhrooms, alfo however Ofraiftrg. 

 good a difli it is, and how much foever^^^^^^^'^'' 

 praftifed in France^ Holland, and other DuTch J^i 

 parts of Etiropey feems to be more ne- French, 

 gleded in England than elfewhere, not- 

 withftanding, that with us they are more 

 natural, and that we have the greatefl op- 

 portunity of propagating them of any 

 country whatsoever. 



I have already in the foregoing part of 

 this treatife given an acount of the gene- 

 ral methods hinted at by feveral authors 

 for the propagation of this ufeful difh 3 

 but as I have fince that happened upon 

 fomc papers that have been miflaid for 

 fomc time; I lay them now before my 

 reader. 



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