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jrooms are obfervcd to rife naturall}^ dung-, 
fpawn however is preferable for garden cul- 
ture, as well on account of the probability of 
4I good crop, as of it’s being the true fort. 
Of colle^'wg the Spawn, 
AFTER the foregoing flridlures on the 
general nature, growth, generation and propa- 
gation of the Mufhroom, we proceed to ex- 
plain the necelfary preparation for its culture 
in gardens, by the following directions con- 
cerning the fpawn. 
The propagation of the Mufhroom is to 
be effected by planting lumps of fpawny- 
dung, found chiefly in dry rotten dung or 
clods of dungy earth, and interwoven in the 
foil in numerous white flringy fibres, often of 
a cob-web-Uke form, and if of the true fort, 
difeo- 
