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 rooms are observed to rise naturally, dung-spawn however is preferable for garden culture, as well on account of the probability of a good crop, as of it's being the true sort.

AFTER the foregoing strictures on the general nature, growth, generation and propagation of the Mushroom, we proceed to explain the necessary preparation for its culture in gardens, by the following directions concerning the spawn.

The propagation of the Mushroom is to be effected by planting lumps of spawny-dung, found chiefly in dry rotten dung or clods of dungy earth, and interwoven in the soil in numerous white stringy fibres, often of a cob-web-like form, and if of the true sort, disco-