Clibrans’ Concentrated Mushroom Spawn. 
Best Quality, per Brick, 8d. ; per Dozen Bricks, 7/6 
Mr. F. T. Allan, Nuneaton, writes " I am sending you a photograph of our Mushroom Bed, grown from your Spawn. 
U has been splendid ; we have been cutting for four weeks, and the mushrooms are still coming as thick as hail, i our Spawn 
is the finest I have ever used.” 
HOW TO GROW MUSHROOMS. tt 
Mushrooms may be grown in any dark place where the temperature ranges from 50 to 60 degrees. Use fresh manure, 
almost free from litter, from stables where the horses are fed on dry food. Expose the manure in an open shed for a few 
days before using it, turning it occasionally to prevent it heating. When making the bed, shake the manure well ou 
and beat it firmly down, addi ig more and more till the depth is from 12 to 15 inches, and as solid as possible. Insert 
two or three pointed sticks in the bed to afterwards ascertain the temperature, and leave for a few days. When cooling, 
and you find from the sticks there is a steady temperature of between 70 and 80 degrees, break tbe spawn in pieces the 
sire of a walnut and press them firmly, nine inches apart, into the surface of the bed— six bricks will be about sufficient 
to spawn a bed of four square yards (3 ft. x 12 ft.). After spawning, cover the bed one or two inches deep with still 
loamy soil and beat it firmly down, finishing with an even surface, and cover with a little hay. Mushrooms may be ex- 
pected in six or eight weeks from the time of spawning, and the bed should continue productive for a couple of months. 
An occasional sprinkling with tepid water will hasten their growth, but care must be used not to give it in excess. If. 
when one bed begins to yield, another is prepared, a continuous supply of Mushrooms may be had throughout the year- 
When Mushrooms are grown on shelves against a wall, the house should be as much as possible in the shade, in order 
that the temperature may not be subjected to so much fluctuation through the sun shining on the roof. 
Culinary Roots. 
Asparagus, per 100, 
2 year, 17/6 
s. d. 
Sea 
1 year, 12/6 ; 
3 year 
extra strong for forcing 
Kale, planting ... ... ••• Per 100 20 
„ extra strong for forcing ... Per 100 40 
Artichokes, Globe, strong plants ... Perdoz. 12 
„ Jerusalem ... Per peck of 14 lbs. 3 
„ White skinned ... „ „ 3 
„ Chinese Per lb. 2 
21 0 
sold out. 
0 
0 
0 
6 
6 
0 
Horse Radish 
Mint Roots 
Rhubarb Roots, of sorts 
... Per doz. roots 
Per bunch, 6d. to 1 
... Each 1/6 & 2 
s. d- 
9 0 
Potato Onions, or Underground Onions ... Per lb. 
Shallots, Selected 
„ Clibrans’ Exhibition Red 
Garlic 
Sweet and Pot Herbs, in many kinds Per doz. 
0 
6 
0 
8 
0 
0 
0 
l<0 -j St. John’s College, Oxford. [ Clibrans 
Showing part of the Lawn, which has been dressed with CLIBRANS ’ LAWN MANURE for a number of years. 
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