THE PRACTICAL GARDENER. 



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tlie beds carefully, and cut tlie mushrooms up by the bottom, 

 taking care not to displace nor injure the young ones which 

 are coming up close to them. As far as can be with safety 

 accomplished, the old stumps or root-part should be removed, 

 having a tendency, when left in the beds, to produce decay, 

 damp, and maggots. The larger mushrooms are used for a 

 variety of purposes, but the smaller or button ones are most 

 esteemed in cookery. 



Mr. Napoleon Bauman, Jun., of Bollweller, in the Upper 

 Rhine, has, in a letter addressed to the Editor of the Garden- 

 ers' Magazine, transmitted to him an account of a very simple 

 and economical method of growing mushrooms, which will be 

 understood by a glance at the accompanying sketch, where the 

 mushrooms are represented rising through a stratum of earth (<-/) ; 



which, with a substratum of dung, occupies the entire floor of 

 the house {b). The pathway (c) is supported from the floor by 

 the posts which are rendered necessary at any rate for support- 

 ing the front shelf (c/), and the shelves of the stage (eee). 

 Vines may be trained upon the rafters, and there may or may 

 not be a small shelf or a bracket here and there for drooping 

 plants (/). In the vicinity of Vienna, houses in which mush- 



