GROWING MUSHROOMS IN CELLARS. 
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lar, and ascribes his best successes to his most thorough 
cleaning. Every summer he cleans out bis cellars and 
limewashes all over. 
Mr. Van Siclen’s Method.—Mr. Abram Van Sic- 
len, of Jamaica, L. L, also grows mushrooms very exten¬ 
sively in underground cellars, whose arrangements do 
not differ materially from those of Mr. Denton’s, except 
in his manner of heating. He runs an immense green¬ 
house vegetable-growing establishment, as well as a sum¬ 
mer truck farm, and uses hot water beating apparatus, 
also smoke flues as employed ordinarily in greenhouses, 
especially lettuce houses. The sheet iron pipes, except 
in squash houses, he does not hold in much favor. 
The Dosoris Mushroom Cellar.—This is a subter¬ 
ranean tunnel or cellar that was excavated and arched 
some ten years ago, expressly for the cultivation of mush- 
Fig. 3. Cross-section of the Dosoris Mushroom Cellar. 
rooms. It is situated in an open, sunny part of the 
garden, and its extreme length from outside of end walls 
is eighty-three feet; but of this space nine feet at either 
