October 28, 1893 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
138 
their removal would have disturbed so many of the 
young buttons with which the soil was thickly 
covered to the full width of the trenches. My friend 
had Mushrooms by the bushel. It does not follov/ 
that the plan will always be successful, but it has 
been followed for a number of years in the garden 
of one of the best known men connected with the 
daily London Press ; and in many cases would not 
cost anything beyond the labour and a few shillings 
for spawn.— W.B.G. 
THE ROSERY. 
Lifting and Potting Roses. 
After the recent welcome rains the roots of Roses 
Group of Ornamental Conifers. 
between them for immediate effect, to be afterwards 
lifted before the branches overlap or intermingle 
with one another. Nor should the grass in the 
vicinity of the mansion be thickly dotted with trees 
in meaningless fashion, obstructing the view and 
making it difficult to keep the lawn properly in a 
regularly trim condition. Away in the background, 
however, few trees have a nobler appearance in 
winter than the tall-growing and picturesque species 
of Pinus, Abies, Picea, Thuya, Cupressus, and 
Juniperus. Many of the upright habited Junipers 
and Cypress are well adapted for planting in the 
neighbourhood of mansions, however, because they 
are slow growing, and being columnar they do not 
down by snow. Retinospora plumosa aurea is a 
slow growing Snd handsome tree, well adapted for 
planting in restricted areas. 
PEAS AND MUSHROOMS. 
Double cropping in private gardens is a pretty 
general practice. Spinach, Radishes and Cauli¬ 
flowers, for instance, are often sown between the rows 
of Peas, but Mushrooms and Peas I think are not 
very often advocated together in this way. That they 
can, however, be grown together has been amply 
demonstrated by a gentleman amateur during the 
past summer, whose trial of the system has been 
attended with the most e.xtraordinary success. Any 
obstruct the view nor overburden'the lawn, while on 
the other hand, they harmonise very well with many 
architectural designs, and form a beautiful and living 
accompaniment to them. 
The accompanying illustration shows a group of 
Conifers that may be planted in similar fashion or 
in other ways mentioned above. On the extreme 
right is a specimen of Abies polita, and on the left a 
tree of Picea ajanensis, both of which should be 
planted away in the distance where they might form 
a background to lower growing deciduous trees, or 
made^o bound the outskirts of the grass altogether, 
or isolated on rising ground in prominent positions. 
The columnar specimen in front is Cupressus 
Lawsoniana Fraseri, one of the handsomest of the 
varieties, with deep glaucous foliage and short, 
stout, erect branches that are not likely to get broken 
one having the command of a sufficiency of horse 
droppings can copy his methods, which are to dig 
out trenches for Peas after the usual plan, but 
instead of putting good fat manure in them, he fills 
them up to the same depth with horse droppings 
prepared and spawned in the following manner:— 
What is thought will be enough manure is spread out 
8 ins. in depth and trodden firm ; when this reaches 
a temperature of 8o° the spawn is inserted and 
allowed a few days to run. When it is found to be 
working, a similar quantity of droppings are mixed 
with it, and then it is wheeled out and placed from 
6 to 8 ins. thick in the trenches intended for Peas, 
and trodden firm, the soil put on and Peas sown. 
The Mushrooms this year showed themselves just 
as the Peas were gathered. The haulm was then 
cleared away^ but the sticks had to remain because 
will lift out of the soil with much less injury than 
usual. Advantage should be taken of this to pot up 
any which may be needed ; and the sooner this is 
done the better the plants will root into the soil, 
and may, if done at once, be gently forced during 
the coming season. Use a good compost, rather on 
the heavy than light side, but just porous enough to 
avoid closeness. Good drainage is indispensable, 
and I find a few half-inch bones on top of the crocks 
a great help, both as stimulants and also to keep the 
drainage more efficient. By all means pot firmly, 
and keep the plants sufficiently deep to cover the 
junction of stock and Rose at least one inch below 
the soil. 
Do not place the plants under cover at once, but 
leave them on the sheltered si de of a hedge or wall 
until severe frost necessitates their being stood in a 
