Mushroom Culture: Its Extension and ImprovementRobinson, W. (William)
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Mushroom Culture: Its Extension and Improvement
Robinson, W. (William)
Mushroom culture; Mushrooms
„ „ in arches, 47
„ „ in stables, 49
„ „ in cellars, 51
„ „ in bottoms of old casks, 52
„ „ in cold greenhouses, 53
„ „ under stages in glass-houses, 55
„ „ in cucumber or melon frames, 56
„ „ in caves near Paris, 57
„ „ open-air in Parisian market gardens, 80
„ „ in gardens among other crops, 84
„ „ in gardens and fields, 77
„ „ in summer, 77
„ „ in gardens at Earl’s Court, 78
„ „ on lawns not desirable, 93
„ „ in pastures, &c., 88
„ growing in open-air, Mr. Ayres’s account of, 85
Mushrooms dislike coal and iron, 74
„ „ tar, 48
Mushroom-house, chief requirement in the construction of, 2
„ „ at back of hothouses, 2
„ „ floor of, 3, 5
„ „ without artificial heat, 4
„ „ with slate or tiled roof, 4
„ „ with thatched roof, 5
„ „ condition of air in, 4
„ „ at Frogmore, 5
„ „ how secured from damp, 5, 6
„ „ best position for, 6
„ „ how heated, 6
„ „ used for forcing and blanching vegetables, 6
„ „ under shed (Forsyth’s), 7
„ „ best kind of shelves for, 7
„ „ at Stoke Place, 8
„ „ against wall, best roof for, 9
„ „ proper width of, 9
„ „ Russian (Oldacre’s), 10
„ „ ventilation of, 5, 7, 9
„ „ with brick arched inner roof, 9
„ „ with close-bottomed shelves, 9
„ „ shelves of cast-iron grating for, 11
„ „ necessity of cleaning, 42
„ „ temperature of, 33
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