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THE RURAL NEW-YORRER 
The Home Acre. 
Will Frosted Potatoes Grow ? 
Are potatoes whose growth were killed 
by frost in September fit to use for seed? 
They are nice, clean, and good size. 
Sullivan Co., N. Y. j. t. 
The way to find out is to plant some 
of them. They may he frozen or only 
chilled. Cut a few fair sample potatoes 
about as you would for planting, riant 
these pieces in boxes or pots, or expose 
them to the sun in a warm sunny room. 
You can tell from the way they sprout 
whether they will grow or not. That is 
the best way to find out. 
Fruit Trees in Asparagus. 
What would be the objection to plant¬ 
ing a few pear and plum trees in an as¬ 
paragus bed which I shall set in the 
Spring? Would they do much harm to 
the asparagus? I am limited for room, 
and have no other available place for 
trees. f. e. d. 
Topsham, Me. 
If the fruit trees were the chief con¬ 
sideration, and there was any other spot 
available for them, I would advise against 
planting them between asparagus, as it is 
rarely the trees get the proper cultivation 
and care when so planted. But as there 
is no other ground available for the trees, 
it is better that you plant them there 
than not at all. It will be quite a num¬ 
ber of years before the trees are large 
enough to interfere with the asparagus, 
and when that time comes, the trees will 
(if properly treated) be so valuable you 
will not regret the sacrifice of any as¬ 
paragus plants the trees may make ne¬ 
cessary. Keep the asparagus far enough 
away from the trees, to admit of hoeing 
around them, so they may have an equal 
change with the asparagus. K. 
Culture of Mushrooms. 
I am growing mushrooms in boxes, in 
a house cellar with hot air furnace heat. 
The manure (without loam) was pro¬ 
cured directly from a local florist who 
has successfully cultivated mushrooms in 
a hothouse. Of the several “successions” 
I have started, the following data cover 
the most typical of the lot and the most 
active boxes. These boxes measure ap¬ 
proximately 2x2% feet and are 10 inches 
high. Box 1 manure received at 120 de¬ 
grees, spawned at 90 degrees; box 2 re¬ 
ceived at 101 degrees, spawned at 74 de¬ 
grees. Both boxes were loamed or cased 
about four days after spawning* and have 
been watered at intervals to prevent dry¬ 
ing out. Six weeks after spawning, white 
threads were running freely in one box 
and tiny brown heads are now coming 
up (interspersed with white and black 
toadstools), but they amount to nothing, 
for as they develop they show’ pointed 
tops and finally du'indle away at the 
base. Yet they emerge right from the 
spawn threads. Are the beds too moist, 
or not sufficiently nourished, or checked 
by some cause that you can bring to my 
attention? The average range of tem¬ 
perature for the cellar is 5S to 65 degrees 
and the last temperature taken of the 
beds was 55 degrees. The books warn 
one against too much water, while our 
florist urges plenty. Perhaps much 
water and low cellar temperature form a 
poor combination, though this florist in 
his greenhouse had a night temperature 
as low as 40 degrees, running up to 110 
degrees in the day time. lie thinks 
growing mushrooms in boxes is not likely 
to succeed and yet I have known them to 
come up all right in a bureau drawer! 
Mount Vernon, N. Y. a. m. ii. 
The temperature ot your cellar is all 
right, and mushrooms should do well 
there if other conditions are right, which 
they have not been. The French method 
of growing mushrooms is not altogether 
reliable, and should no* ne attempted by 
the inexperienced. You watered too 
much and covered the bed too soon with 
loam. The manure and loam mixture is 
more certain of producing, and if tem¬ 
perature and treatment is right there 
will be no question about the result being 
satisfactory. The manure should be pro¬ 
cured fresh each day (it must be entirely 
free from litter) from a nearby stable, in 
quantity of about a good wlieel-barrow 
load or more each day. To each barrow 
load add an equal weight of good loam 
preferably from old pasture field. Mix 
the droppings and soil each day as they 
are procured from the stable, turn the 
heap every day, until enough has been 
prepared to meet your requirements. The 
heap must be kept under cover and must 
not get wet. The bed should be at least 
three feet wide by four to six feet long, 
about 10 inches in depth. When all is 
ready, form the heap of soil and manure, 
cover the bottom of the box with a thin 
layer, and firm it well; a brick is well 
suited for this purpose. Then a second 
layer and firm as before, continuing in 
this wise until the box is filled to a depth 
of exactly eight inches, no more nor any 
less. Now plunge a thermometer into the 
bod to a depth of four inches; in two or 
three days the temperature will rise to 
about 100 degrees. When the tempera¬ 
ture subsides to 90 degrees, take a sharp 
stick, a broom handle will do, and punch 
holes four inches deep, and about 32 
inches apart all over the bed. Put a 
piece of spawn the size of an ordinary 
hen’s egg into each of these holes, and 
fill the holes with the compost, so the bed 
will be even and firm as it was before 
spawning. Do nothing more with it for 
at least 10 days. The spawn will have 
run pretty well through the whole bed 
by that time. The bed may now be 
covered with about two inches of loam, 
which should be moderately firmed with 
the back of a spade. Then cover the bed 
to a depth of three or four inches with 
straw or hay. There is nothing more to 
be done but wait for the crop, and if the 
temperature and moisture is kept right, 
the mushrooms should begin to appear 
in six to seven weeks. Do not water at 
any time unless the top of the bed ap¬ 
pears dry, when it should be gently 
sprinkled, the water being heated to a 
temperature of about 100 degrees. 
To summarize briefly: Do not let the 
material heat in the making nor get wet. 
Fill the bed to exactly eight inches in 
depth. Do not spawn the bed until the 
temperature drops to 1)0 degrees. Do not 
put the two-inch covering of loam on the 
bed under 10 days after spawning. Be 
sure to cover them to rmir inches with 
straw or hay and lastly, do not water, 
unless the surface of the bed is dry, then 
sprinkle lightly with water heated to 100 
degrees. Follow these simple rules and 
you will succeed. k 
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