Mushroom Culture: Its Extension and Improvement

by W. Robinson

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INDEX.

• Agaricus amygdalinus, [147]
• Agaricus arvensis, [98]
• Agaricus Cæsareus, [97], [152]
• Agaricus cæspitosus (Lentinus), [149]
• Agaricus campestris, [95]
• Agaricus cylindricus, [118]
• Agaricus excoriatus, [114]
• Agaricus fimetarius, [118]
• Agaricus frumentaceus, [148]
• Agaricus gambosus, [121]
• Agaricus melleus, [149]
• Agaricus nebularis, [127]
• Agaricus orcella, [141]
• Agaricus procerus, [113]
• Agaricus prunulus, [143]
• Agaricus rachodes, [114]
• Agaricus rubescens, [125]
• Agaricus salignus, [153]
• Agaricus typhoides, [118]
• Agaricus villaticus, [100]
• “Agaric of civilization”, [119]
• American Edible Fungi, [145]
• Arches, Mushroom culture in, [47]
• Boletus collinitus, [149]
• Boletus flavidus, [149]
• Boletus flavus, [163]
• Boletus luteus, [163]
• Boletus satanas, [164]
• Bricks, mushroom-spawn in, [25]
• Brown Warty Agaric, [125]
• Cantharellus cibarius, [137]
• Cave-culture of mushrooms, [57]
• Cellars, mushroom culture in, [51]
• Champignonniste at Montrouge, [57]
• Chantarelle, [137]
• Clavaria, [158]
• Clouded Mushroom, [127]
• Common Mushrooms, [95]
• Common Mushrooms, how to cook the, [102]
• Coprinus comatus, [117]
• Coral Mushroom, [158]
• Covering for Mushroom-beds, [34]
• Covering advantageous to Mushroom crop, [87]
• Cucumber frames, Mushroom culture in, [56]
• Fairy-ring Champignon, [108]
• Fermentation of manure, how prevented, [16]
• Floor of Mushroom-house, [3], [5]
• French mode of preparing manure, [16]
• French Mushroom-caves, [57], [71]
• French Mushroom-spawn, [28]
• Forsyth’s Mushroom-house, [7]
• Frogmore, Mushroom-house at, [5]
• Gardens and fields, Mushroom culture in, [77]
• Gardens about London, Mushroom culture in, [78]
• Greenhouses, Mushroom culture in, [53]
• Habitats of the wild Mushroom, [90]
• Heating of the Mushroom-house, [6]
• Hedgehog Mushroom, [139]
• Horse Mushroom, [98]
• Hydnum repandum, [139]
• Hygrophorus pratensis, [135]
• Hygrophorus psittacinus, [136]
• Hygrophorus virgineus, [135]
• Hygrophorus niveus, [136]
• Iron injurious to Mushrooms, [74]
• Lactarius deliciosus, [129]
• Lactarius piperatus, [150]
• Lactarius torminosus (necator), [130]
• Lawns, Mushroom culture not desirable on, [93]
• Lycoperdon giganteum, [159]
• Maned Agaric, the, [117]
• Manure, preparation of, [13]
• Manure, Mr. Early’s method of preparing, [14]
• Manure, Mr. Barnes’s, [14]
• Manure, Frogmore, [15]
• Manure, how prepared by London market-gardeners, [15]
• Manure, how kept from fermenting, [16]
• Manure, French mode of preparing, [16]
• Manure, summary of directions for preparing, [17]
• Marasmius oreades, [108]
• Marasmius urens, [109]
• Mill-track Mushroom-spawn, [27]
• Montrouge, Mushroom-caves at, [57]
• Morchella esculenta, [130]
• Morel, the, [130]
• Mouceron or mousseron, [123], [143]
• Mushroom-beds, materials for, [13]
• Mushroom-beds, of sawdust, [19]
• Mushroom-beds, of leaves and loam, [19], [21]
• Mushroom-beds, of street-sweepings, &c., [19]
• Mushroom-beds, chief point to be observed in making, [21]
• Mushroom-beds, best time for making, [21]
• Mushroom-beds, depth of, [18]
• Mushroom-beds, in a stable, [30]
• Mushroom-beds, covering for, [34]
• Mushroom-beds, how to reduce the heat of, [34]
• Mushroom-beds, how to ascertain the heat of, [34]
• Mushroom-beds, how to spawn properly, [35]
• Mushroom-beds, soil for earthing, [37]
• Mushroom-beds, the watering of, [38]
• Mushroom-beds, vermin in, [39]
• Mushroom-beds, treatment of old, [41], [46]
• Mushroom-beds, temperature of, [33], [79]
• Mushroom-beds, soil for covering, [79]
• Mushroom-caves, contrivance for watering beds in, [75]
• Mushroom-caves, contrivance for making beds in, [75]
• Mushroom-caves, localities of, [75]
• Mushroom-caves, depth of, [18], [76]
• Mushroom-caves, immense extent of, [76]
• Mushroom-caves, at Montrouge, [57]
• Mushroom-caves, description of soil used in, [61]
• Mushroom-caves, daily produce of, [62]
• Mushroom-caves, appearance of beds in, [61]
• Mushroom-caves, kind of manure used in, [65]
• Mushroom-caves, difficulty in visiting, [65]
• Mushroom-caves, at Frépillon, account of, [66]
• Mushroom-caves, at Frépillon, extent of beds in, [66]
• Mushroom-caves, at Frépillon, plan of, [68]
• Mushroom-caves, at Frépillon, appearance of beds in, [70]
• Mushroom-caves, at Frépillon, daily produce of, [66], [70]
• Mushroom-caves, preparation of manure in, [71]
• Mushroom-caves, preparation of spawn in, [73]
• Mushroom-crop, how to gather, [42]
• Mushroom-culture in a shed, [45]
• Mushroom-culture in arches, [47]
• Mushroom-culture in stables, [49]
• Mushroom-culture in cellars, [51]
• Mushroom-culture in bottoms of old casks, [52]
• Mushroom-culture in cold greenhouses, [53]
• Mushroom-culture under stages in glass-houses, [55]
• Mushroom-culture in cucumber or melon frames, [56]
• Mushroom-culture in caves near Paris, [57]
• Mushroom-culture open-air in Parisian market gardens, [80]
• Mushroom-culture in gardens among other crops, [84]
• Mushroom-culture in gardens and fields, [77]
• Mushroom-culture in summer, [77]
• Mushroom-culture in gardens at Earl’s Court, [78]
• Mushroom-culture on lawns not desirable, [93]
• Mushroom-culture in pastures, &c., [88]
• Mushroom-growing in open-air, Mr. Ayres’s account of, [85]
• Mushrooms dislike coal and iron, [74]
• Mushrooms dislike tar, [48]
• Mushroom-house, chief requirement in the construction of, [2]
• Mushroom-house, at back of hothouses, [2]
• Mushroom-house, floor of, [3], [5]
• Mushroom-house, without artificial heat, [4]
• Mushroom-house, with slate or tiled roof, [4]
• Mushroom-house, with thatched roof, [5]
• Mushroom-house, condition of air in, [4]
• Mushroom-house, at Frogmore, [5]
• Mushroom-house, how secured from damp, [5], [6]
• Mushroom-house, best position for, [6]
• Mushroom-house, how heated, [6]
• Mushroom-house, used for forcing and blanching vegetables, [6]
• Mushroom-house, under shed (Forsyth’s), [7]
• Mushroom-house, best kind of shelves for, [7]
• Mushroom-house, at Stoke Place, [8]
• Mushroom-house, against wall, best roof for, [9]
• Mushroom-house, proper width of, [9]
• Mushroom-house, Russian (Oldacre’s), [10]
• Mushroom-house, ventilation of, [5], [7], [9]
• Mushroom-house, with brick arched inner roof, [9]
• Mushroom-house, with close-bottomed shelves, [9]
• Mushroom-house, shelves of cast-iron grating for, [11]
• Mushroom-house, necessity of cleaning, [42]
• Mushroom-house, temperature of, [33]
• Mushroom-spawn, what it is, [23]
• Mushroom-spawn, how obtained in the first instance, [24]
• Mushroom-spawn, “natural” or “virgin”, [24]
• Mushroom-spawn, how to preserve, [25]
• Mushroom-spawn, in bricks, [25]
• Mushroom-spawn, in bricks, recipes for making, [26]
• Mushroom-spawn, mill-track, [27]
• Mushroom-spawn, French, [28]
• Mushroom-spawn, how to save the expense of purchasing, [29]
• Mushroom-spawn, French, experiment with, [30]
• Mushrooms not produced by chance, [89]
• Mushrooms quantities exported from France, [64]
• Nut Mushroom, [158]
• Oldacre’s mushroom-house, [10]
• Old mushroom-beds, treatment of, [41]
• Omelette, [158]
• Open-air culture of Mushrooms at Paris, [80]
• Orange-milk Mushroom, [129]
• Orgelle, [141]
• Pastures, how to introduce Mushrooms into, [92]
• Parasol Agaric, [113]
• Peach-kernel Mushroom, [158]
• Pink-gill Mushroom, [158]
• Places in which Mushrooms may be grown, [1]
• Plum Mushroom, [143]
• Polyporus Berkelei, [150]
• Polyporus confluens, [150]
• Polyporus frondosus, [150]
• Polyporus ovinus, [149]
• Polyporus poripes, [149]
• Polyporus sulfureus, [150]
• Pratiolo, [97], [158]
• Rain, injurious to mushroom-crop, [87]
• Red-fleshed Mushroom, [125]
• Roof of mushroom-house, [4], [5]
• Russian mushroom-house, [10]
• Sawdust for mushroom-beds, [19]
• Scaly Mushroom, [113]
• Shed, mushroom-house under, [7]
• Shed, mushroom culture in, [45]
• Shelves of mushroom-house, [7]
• Shelves cast-iron grating for, [11]
• Snowball Mushroom, [158]
• Soil for earthing mushroom-beds, [37]
• Spawn, how to prepare without expense, [91]
• Spinaroli, [123]
• Spine-bearing Mushroom, [139]
• Stables, mushroom culture in, [49]
• Stoke Place, mushroom-house at, [8]
• Street-sweepings for mushroom-beds, [19]
• St. George’s Mushroom, [121]
• Summer cultivation of Mushrooms, [77]
• Tar, Mushrooms’ dislike of, [48]
• Temperature of mushroom-beds, [33]
• Temperature of mushroom-house, [33]
• Vegetable Sweetbread, [141]
• Ventilation of mushroom-house, [5], [7], [9]
• Vermin in mushroom-beds, [39]
• “Virgin” mushroom-spawn, [24]
• Viscid White Mushroom, [135]
• Watering of mushroom-beds, the, [38]
• “Why should we not eat Funguses”, [160]

THE END.

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[Transcriber’s Notes:]

Missing periods and quotation marks have been supplied where obviously required. All other original errors and inconsistencies have been retained, except as follows (the first line is the original text, the second the passage as currently stands):

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  or so of medium-size, place two
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  the valley of Staffora, near Bobbio,
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  dressing the Cantharelle are
  dressing the Chantarelle are
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  number of person—sunless it be
  number of persons—unless it be