chap, vi.] THE KITCHEN-GARDEN. 193 
should be transplanted into a warm border 
in front of a south wall in May; where they 
should be trained against the wall* or pegged 
down over a warm bank of earth sloping to 
the sun. They require abundance of water 
while the fruit is swelling; and as much heat 
as possible while it is ripening. 
Mushrooms .—The spawn is generally pro¬ 
cured from a nurseryman; and the beds are 
made of fresh horse-dung thrown together 
in a heap under cover, and turned over many 
times in the course of a fortnight or three 
weeks, till every part has thoroughly fer¬ 
mented. When the dung is thought to be 
in a proper state, a trench is marked out 
twelve or fourteen feet long and five broad, 
and about six inches deep; the mould taken 
out in forming it being laid on one side till 
wanted. In the bottom of the trench there 
should be a layer of long fresh stable manure 
about four inches thick; and on this, succes¬ 
sive layers of the prepared dung, each beaten 
flat with the fork, till the bed is about five 
feet high, and narrow at the top like the 
ridge of a house. In this state it may remain 
about a fortnight; and then if the bed be 
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