CHAPTER V. 
GROWING MUSHROOMS IN GREENHOUSES. 
Any one who has a greenhouse can grow mushrooms 
in it. And it does not matter what kind of greenhouse 
it is, whether a fruit house, a flower house, or a vegeta¬ 
ble house, it is available for mushrooms. One of the 
advantages of raising mushrooms in a greenhouse is that 
they grow to perfection in parts of the greenhouse that 
are nearly worthless for other purposes; for instance, 
under the stages, where nothing else grows well, although 
rhubarb and asparagus might be forced there, and a 
little chicory and dandelion blanched. 
Cool greenhouses, in all cases, are better for mush¬ 
rooms than hothouses. Cool houses are seldom kept at 
Fig. ll. Boxed Mushroom Bed under Greenhouse Bench. 
a lower temperature than 45° or 50° in winter, while 
hothouses run from 60° to 70° at night, with a rise of 
ten to twenty degrees by day, and this is too hot for 
mushrooms. It is a very easy matter, by means of cov- 
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