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Let the earth, in which you would 

 plant them, be of a lightifh nature, in a 

 ground as entirely new and frefh as you 

 can, and dig there a hollow of four or 

 five foot wide and a foot deep, and as long 

 as you pleafe j get then fome longifli 

 dung from the ftable, and mix it with a 

 little moulded hay or flraw, and throw it 

 up together for four or five days, till the 

 whole body of dung is tainted with that 

 mouldinefs, which is fo conducive to th^ 

 well growing of mufhrooms. 



If amoipigft the earth abovementioned 

 you mix fome earth that is a little moul- 

 dy, and that has been watcr'd; wikt the 

 water wherein mufhrooms have been 

 waih'd, and v/ith parings of the farpe it is 

 ilill the better 5 and I oaay add, if to all 

 you get the earth out of your fheep walks, 

 and other places , where you' fee bunches 

 of mufhrooms, and take from ilience the 

 earth clodded together in balls, in which 

 are contained thofe white milky fibres 

 that are contained therein, you may af- 

 furedly exped a good race of mufhrooms. 



To proceed, let the bed be rais'd about 

 a foot and a half^ or two foot high, mix- 

 ing and ti:<;ading the dung as hard as you 

 can, and laying it fo entirely round, as 



