Mushrooms, How to Grow Them. 
CHAPTER L 
THOSE WHO SHOULD GROW MUSHROOMS. 
Market Gardeners. —The mushroom is a highly 
prized article of food which can be as easily grown as 
many other vegetable products of the soil—and with as 
much pleasure and profit. Below it is shown, in partic¬ 
ular, that this peculiar plant is singularly well adapted 
to the conditions that surround many classes of persons, 
and by whom the mushroom might become a standard 
crop for home use, the city market, or both. It is 
directly in their line of business; is a winter crop, re¬ 
quiring their care when outdoor operations are at a 
standstill, and they can most conveniently attend to 
growing mushrooms. They have the manure needed 
for their other crops, and they may well use it first for 
a mushroom crop. After having borne a crop of mush¬ 
rooms it is thoroughly rotted and in good condition for 
early spring crops ; and for seed beds of tomatoes, let¬ 
tuces, cabbages, cauliflowers, and other vegetables, it is 
the best kind of manure. 
Years ago market gardening near New York in winter 
was carried on in rather a desultory way, and the supply 
of salads and other forced vegetables was limited and 
mostly raised in hotbeds and other frames, and prices 
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