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 excessive rains should happen, cast some dry litter at top, or spread garden mats, so as to shoot off the wet, lest it should perish the bed, or occasion it to heat violently and burn; either of which would render it totally useless. Great humidity is a certain enemy to Mushroom beds, as it soon exterminates the whole spawny substance.

Some persons indeed make the beds under an airy covered shed, or barn, or erect a fort of awning of canvas: some also, having considerable ranges of glass houses, make them in these departments. I however have always found success in the open ground, and generally much better than when under any covering.

By way of curiosity and experiment, I have made a bed for Mushrooms in the same manner as for cucumbers and melons,