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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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to urge tlie more general cultivation of these delicious and nutritious plants, and 
the policy and profit of becoming mycophagists. The book, moreover, is ver}’ 
nicely got up, so that while it should be obtained to grace the shelves of the 
garden library, its varied contents will render it useful to those who take it down 
Fig. 1. 
for perusal or reference. With this prefatory commendation, we pass on to make 
some illustrated abstracts, explanatory of the proceedings of the market gardeners 
of London and Paris :— 
Mushrooms may be grown with ease in the open air in gardens; but this is a 
phase of culture, with which gardeners are by no means sufficiently conversant. 
In fact, mushroom-culture in the open air in private gardens may be said not to 
exist at present, so very rarely is it seen. In a little pamphlet on mushroom¬ 
growing that has lately appeared, it is stated that mushrooms may be grown out 
of doors ‘‘ in summer,” but nothing is said about their being grown in the open 
air in winter. The Paris growers never attempt their culture in summer; the 
London ones very rarely. It is in winter that their cultivation is carried on in 
full vigour in the open air, and then abundant crops are grown by the market 
gardeners of London and Paris. 
