308 On a Method of Cultivating the Mushroom. 



Note by the Secretary. 

 The cluster of Mushrooms alluded to was brought to 

 the Society's House in Regent Street, on the 6th of No- 

 vember last; they were unusually fine in appearance, and 

 some when dressed proved very excellent. The abundance 

 of the produce so clustered together, was certainly very 

 unusual. 



Mr. Warre, in a letter communicated after Mr. Hog an' s 

 Paper was sent to the Society, observed, that the frost had 

 not been so injurious to the bed as had been apprehend- 

 ed, for that it continued to produce Mushrooms, though 

 not in such great quantities as before the accident ; but this 

 diminution of produce Mr. Warre attributed, in part, to 

 the dung not having been changed, so that the bed was not 

 sufficiently heated. 



Mr. Warre further mentioned that the produce alto- 

 gether had been very great, for though dressed in every way 

 possible, besides furnishing a frequent supply to neighbours, 

 the beds more than once had yielded a gathering of a bushel of 

 Mushrooms for Catsup. The Mushrooms were thick-fleshed, 

 firm, and high-flavoured, on their upper surface they varied 

 in colour from a fine brown to white, but were invariably of 

 a light Peach-bloom colour underneath. The clusters con- 

 sisted chiefly of great numbers, and when they did not grow 

 in clusters, single round Mushrooms were produced. 



Mr. Samuel Sawyer, Gardener to Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, 

 Esq. of Camberwell, having seen the Mushroom beds formed 

 by Mr. Hogan, and described above, has, in a communication 

 made to the Secretary of the Society, and read at the Meeting 



