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 known to the far greater number of practitioners beyond the vicinity of London. Here it is raised by many of the kitchen-gardeners. Their successful method we have long practised, and now propose to explain to the reader.

It may be just observed, that although the Mushroom grows spontaneously in meadows and pasture fields, it is obtained there accidentally only, and at a particular season: but, by garden culture, we procure this plant at any time of the year, whenever it is wanted, and always of superior goodness, richness of flavour; and with a certainty of its being the true salutiferous, or wholesome kind: a matter of the utmost moment, since there are, in the fields, so many of a pernicious quality, bearing so great a similarity to the true sort, that, having been gathered by the unskilful, have proved fatal to thousands.