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 discovering a strong smell of the Mushroom. A due quantity should always be provided previous to making the bed, in order that you may more readily judge of what size to determine upon; for it is sometimes difficult to be had in any considerable abundance so that according as it is occasionally met with, it should be carefully collected, taking the lumps of spawn and earth entire, of which, for a bed twenty feet long, three or four bushels will be requisite, and so in proportion.

Spawn is obtained the most readily and in abundance in parcels of decayed dung and dungy composts; but commonly more plenteously and good in rotten horse stable dung, composed of the short dung and moist litter together, as cleared from the stables, either collected in dung-heaps, or formed into hot-beds, composts, &c. when it has