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CLI BRANS’ LIST OF FRUITS, 1908-9. 
CLIBRANS’ 
CONCENTRATED MUSHROOM SPAWN. 
Best Quality, pep Brick, 6d.; per Bushel of 
16 Bricks, 5s. 
We have much pleasure in drawing attention to our excellent and 
reliable Concentrated Mushroom Spawn. For several years it has been a 
special article with us, and we ask you to give it a trial side by side with 
any other. It produces substantial crops of large succulent Mushrooms of 
the finest quality. 
HOW TO GROW MUSHROOMS. 
Mushrooms may be grown in any dark place where the temperature 
langes 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 fewdays before using it turning itoccasionally to prevent 
heating, t lie great secret in growing line Mushrooms being to have the 
manure neither too wet nor too dry, and to avoid its becoming hot, either 
befoie 01 after it has been made into the bed. When making the bed, shake 
the manure well out, and beat it firmly down, adding more and more until 
there is a depth of from 
12 to 15 inches, and as 
solid as possible. Thrust 
two or three pointed 
sticks in the bed, so that 
you may afterwards 
ascertain the tempera- 
ture, and leave for a few 
days to heat. When 
cooh'ng, and you find 
from the sticks there is 
a steady temperature of 
between 70 and 80 
degrees, break the spawn 
in pieces, the size 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 (3ft. by 12ft.) After 
spawning, cover the bed 
one or two inches deep 
with stiff loamy soil, and 
beat it firmly down finish- 
ing with an even surface, 
and cover with a little hay. Mushrooms may be expected 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 an excess, as if 
the bed becomes saturated, it will be spoiled. If, when one bed begins to 
yield, another for succession is prepared, a continuous supply of Mush- 
rooms may be had throughout the year. 
When Mushrooms are grown on shelves placed against a wall, the 
mushroom-house should be situated as much as possible in the shade, in 
order that the internal temperature may not be subjected to so much 
fluctuation by reason of the sun shining on the roof. 
