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known to the far greater number of praftU 
tioners beyond the vicinity of London. 
Here it is raifed by many of the kitchen^ 
gardeners. Their fuccefsful method we 
have long pradlifed, and now propofe to 
explain to the reader. 
It may be juft obferved, that although 
the Mufhroom grows fpontaneoufly in mea- 
dows and pafture- fields, it is obtained there 
accidentally only, and at a particular feafon : 
but, by garden culture, we procure this 
plant at any time of the year, whenever it is 
' wanted, and always of fuperior goodnefs, 
richnefs of ftavour ; and with a certainty of 
its being the true falutiferous, or wholefome 
kind : a matter of the utmoft moment, fince 
there are, in the fields, fo many of a perni- 
cious quality, bearing fo great a fimilarity 
to tlie true fort, that, having been gathered by 
the unlkilful, have proved fatal to thoufands, 
Nature^ 
