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LXXXVI. Account of the Method of growing Mushrooms in 

 Houses. By Mr. Isaac Oldaker, Gardener to his Ma- 

 jesty the Emperor of all the Russias, $c. 



Read March 4, 1817. 



.The experience of three years having fully verified the 

 favourable report made by a Committee of the Horticul- 

 tural Society,* on the merit of the plan for growing 

 Mushrooms, introduced by me into this country, and un- 

 derstanding that a particular account of the practice will be 

 acceptable, I beg leave to submit the following details to the 

 consideration of the Society. 



This method was practised by me, with never-failing 

 success, in the Imperial Gardens near St. Petersburgh, 



* Report of a Committee, appointed by the Horticultural Society of London 

 to inspect Mr. Oldakers method of cultivating Mushrooms. 



The undersigned being a Committee appointed to go to Spring Grove, on 

 Thursday, the 7 th of July, 1814, in consequence of an invitation from the 

 Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, to see his Mushroom beds, made there lately 

 by Mr. Oldaker, as well as to taste the produce of them, certify, that they 

 found them bearing in the greatest abundance ; and that the flavour of the 

 Mushrooms, cooked in four different ways, was excellent. They have therefore 

 no scruple in earnestly recommending Mr. Oldaker's method of making and 

 managing Mushroom beds to the public, as likely to produce both larger and 

 more certain crops, than any yet known. 



Roger Pettiward. Joseph Sabine. 



John Cresswell. R. A. Salisbury. 



Daniel Giles. 



