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( 48 ) With respect to the produce, the beds begin furnishing Mushrooms in a month or six weeks after spawning: sometimes indeed it will be two or three months, but there is no great success to be expected when they are long before they yield their first crop; a good working bed, if well spawned and managed, commonly affords plenty in six or eight weeks, continuing sometimes for three months together, rising in numerous clusters one under another, covering the surface of the bed, some appearing in embryo, some larger, and others, at the fame time, full sized; but these last should not remain long enough to become large flaps, because they would prove detrimental to the adjoining successional plants, especially when the bed is in full production.

The Autumnal beds, if the spawn is in perfection, generally produce in a shorter