Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming
THE places in which mushrooms can be grown may be roughly grouped as follows:--1. In the mushroom-house proper. 2. In sheds, cellars, out-houses, stables, railway-arches, &c. 3. In deep caves, like those near Paris, described further on. 4. In the open air, in gardens or field...
THE places in which mushrooms can be grown may be roughly grouped as follows:--1. In the mushroom-house proper. 2. In sheds, cellars, out-houses, stables, railway-arches, &c. 3....
5. CHAPTER I.CULTURE in the mushroom-house being the most practised, and, on the whole, the most important phase of the subject, we will first treat of it. And first of the mushroom-house it...
6. CHAPTER IIBEFORE we deal with the various ways of growing the mushroom, we will speak of the preparation of the material. As stable manure not only furnishes the nutriment, but forms the...
7. CHAPTER III.THE first thing we have to determine is, What is spawn? Generally, the spawn, or what in scientific language is called the _mycelium_, is supposed to be analogous to seed, while...
8. CHAPTER IV.THE temperature of the material of the beds should never, at spawning time, exceed 80 degrees Fahr.--about 70 is the most suitable regular temperature; and that of the mushroom-...
9. CHAPTER V.MUSHROOMS may be, and are, grown to perfection in many less ambitious structures than the mushroom-house proper. Any species of outhouse will do for the autumn and early winter...
10. CHAPTER VI.THE most extensive and successful culture of mushrooms in existence is carried on in widely-ramifying caves far beneath the surface in the vicinity of Paris. To give the reader...
11. CHAPTER VII.MUSHROOMS may be grown with ease in the open air in gardens; and this is a phase of the culture with which gardeners are not by any means sufficiently conversant. In fact, mushr...
12. CHAPTER VIII.THIS is a phase of culture which may be pursued to great advantage in every private garden, almost without cost and attention. The low ridge-like hotbeds, for example, made for...
13. CHAPTER IX.NOTWITHSTANDING the extreme abundance of the common mushroom in the meadows and pastures of the British islands, and probably in similar positions all the world over, it is scar...
14. CHAPTER X.THE common meadow mushroom varies considerably, but, “common to all are a fleshy _pileus_, which is sometimes smooth, sometimes scaly, in colour white, or of different shades of...
15. CHAPTER XI._To Stew Mushrooms._--Trim and rub clean half a pint of large button mushrooms; put into a stew-pan two ounces of butter, shake it over the fire till thoroughly melted; put in t...
16. CHAPTER XII.“Whole hundredweights of rich, wholesome diet rotting under the trees; woods teeming with food, and not one hand to gather it; and this, perhaps, in the midst of potato-blight,...