652 THE I'RACTICAL GARDENER. [Jan. 



Mushrooms may also be readily obtained throughout winter, 

 in any moderately warm apartment, by filling boxes, or ham- 

 Y>crs, or any other thing that will keep the compost together. 

 The compost, tlie same as for the beds already described, 

 should bo well beaten into them, and spa^^'ned when the rank 

 heat is upon the dccUne ; any number of boxes or hamj>ers 

 may be filled with it, and kept in reserve until wanted in any 

 dry shed or loft, where there is no chance of wet or frost pene- 

 trating. When it is thought necessary to put them to work, 

 take any number of them and mould tiiem over as above di- 

 rected, and place them in any temperature, not exceethng 60° ; 

 by occasionally giving a slight watering, so as to keep the 

 materials in an equable degree of moisture, plenty of mush- 

 rooms will be produced. Boxes thus filled may be placed in 

 any of the forcing-houses, where the temperature is not too 

 high ; and, as the crops become scanty and weak, remove 

 them again to the loft or shed, from which they were at first 

 taken ; and then, after resting for a few weeks, may be brought 

 into the house again, and if not too much exhausted by the 

 first crop, will produce a second, and sometimes a third crop, 

 during the winter months. Having a sufficient number of 

 boxes, a regular supply may be thus kept up, widi little trou- 

 ble or expense. 



