GROWIMG MUSHROOMS IK CELLARS. 
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little flat mushroom beds and bearing a very good crop. 
Truth to tell, I used to fear growing mushrooms in 
dwelling houses might be objectionable in various ways; 
but this instance is very interesting, as there is not even 
the slightest unpleasant smell in the chamber itself. 
The beds are small, scarcely a foot high, and perfectly 
odorless; so that it is quite clear that one may cultivate 
mushrooms in one’s house, in such a case as this, with¬ 
out the slightest offence.” 
Mr. Gardner’s Method.— Mr. J. G. Gardner, of 
Jobstown, N. J., uses an ordinary cellar, such as any 
farmer in the country has, and the little that has been 
done to it to darken the windows and make them tight, 
so as to render them better for mushrooms, any farmer 
with a hand-saw, an ax, a hammer and a few nails and 
some boards can do. Mr. Gardner is a market gardener, 
and has not the amount of fresh manure upon his own 
place that he needs for mushroom-growing, but he buys 
it, common horse manure, in New York, and it is shipped 
to him, over seventy miles, by rail. And this pays ; and 
if it will pay a man to get manure at such a cost for 
mushroom-growing, how much more will mushroom¬ 
growing pay the farmer who has the cellar and the 
manure as well ? Mr. Gardner raises mushrooms, and 
lots of them. When I visited him last November, in¬ 
stead of trying to hide anything in their cultivation 
from me, he took particular pains to show and explain 
to me everything about his way of growing them. And 
he assures me that by adopting simple means of prepar¬ 
ing the manure and “fixing” for the crop, and avoiding 
all complicated methods, one can get good crops and 
make fair profits. 
His cellar is sixty feet long, twenty-four feet wide, 
and nine feet high from floor to ceiling. The floor is 
an earthen one, but perfectly dry. It is well supplied 
with window ventilators and doors, and in the ceiling in 
