Mushrooms

by William Falconer

• Ammonia Arising, [54]
• Anguillulæ, [124]
  • In Decaying Vegetation, [126]
  • Scalding Water to Kill, [126]
  • To Destroy, [114]
• Apparatus, Hot Water, [33]
• Atmosphere, Manure Steam for Moistening, [114]
  • Remedying a too Dry, [114]
• Barn Cellars, [10]
• Bedding, Wetted with Urine, [58]
• Beds, [16]
  • Alongside of Wall, [18]
  • Banked Against a Wall, [53]
  • Bearing in November, [25]
  • Black Spot in the, [108]
  • Boring Holes in, to Reduce Temperature, [76]
  • Bottom of, [17]
  • Box, [17]
  • Casing, after Spawning, [100]
  • Casing the, [104]
  • Earthing Over the, [103]
  • Experiments as to Proper Time to Case, [104]
  • Fifteen Inches Thick, [22]
  • Firmly Built, [76]
  • Flat, [50]
  • Flat, Sods fit only for, [107]
  • Floor, [19]
  • Flooring for the, [28]
  • Green Sods, Method of Casing, [106]
  • Killing the Mycelium in, [96]
  • Loam for, [100]
  • Manure, [20]
  • Maximum Heat of Best, [75]
  • Midwinter, [39]
  • Mulching, [23]
  • Mushroom, [12]
  • Never Spawn, when Heat is Rising, [96]
  • Odorless, in Dwelling House Cellars, [21]
  • Of Low Temperature, [77]
  • On the Floor, [13]
  • Outside, [12]
  • Parching Effect Visible on, [26]
  • Picking "Fogged-off" Mushrooms from, [108]
  • Rack, [13]
  • Re-Invigorating Old, [120]
  • Renovating Old, in England, [142]
  • Ridge, [17]
  • Second Crop from, [120]
  • Shelf, [16], 29
  • Spawned at 66° to 70°, [97]
  • Spawning and Molding, [14]
  • Spawning the, [96]
  • Spent Mushroom, [121]
  • Stale, [76]
  • Tamping Surface of, [23]
  • Temperature of a Twelve Inch Thick Bed, [96]
  • Ten or Twelve Inches Deep, [19]
  • Tending the, [17]
  • Three Feet Deep, [25]
  • To Keep, Warm, [109]
  • Topdressed, [23]
  • Under Greenhouse Benches, To make, [53]
  • Watering, [24]
  • Watering the, [108]
  • Watering Mushroom, [111]
  • When Dry to be Watered, [111]
  • Wide, With Pathway Above,* [44]
  • Worn Out, [120]
• Beetles, Larvæ of Two, Destroying Mycelium, [132]
• Benches Covered, [40]
• Black Spot, [124]
  • A Disease, [125]
  • In Beds in Vigorous Bearing, [125]
  • In New Beds, [125]
  • Is Unwholesome, [126]
  • To Prevent, [125]
• Boards, Stepping, [17]
• Boiler and Pipes, [32]
• Boilers, Hitching's Base-burner, [31]
• Boxing, [19]
  • Lid for, [19]
  • Old Carpet or Matting Over, [19]
• "Bullet" or "Shot" Holes in Mushrooms, [128]
• Bugs, Mealy, [12]
• Calico, [18]
• Caves, [17]
• Caves of Paris, In the,* [147]
  • Paris, Description of, [143]
  • French Spawn Used in, [146]
  • Gathering Mushrooms for Market in the, [149]
  • Making Beds in the, [145]
  • Manure Used in the, [144]
  • Material Used for and Method of Earthing Over in, [146]
  • Methods of Regulating Draughts in the, [150]
  • Preparation of Manure for the, [144]
  • Paris, Spawn Used in the, and How Obtained, [145]
  • Stratifying Spawn Before Using in the, [146]
  • Temperature in Spacious, High Roofed, [147]
  • Ventilation in the, [148]
  • When and How Mushrooms are Gathered in the, [148]
• Ceiling, Flat, [37]
  • Sloping, [36]
  • Wet, [18]
• Cellar, Barn, [13]
  • Cleanliness in the Mushroom, [26]
  • Cool, [19]
  • Cross-section of the Dosoris Mushroom,* [27]
  • Dosoris Mushroom, [27]
  • Divided, [30]
  • Ground Plan of the Dosoris,* [28]
  • Height of, [17]
  • House, [13]
  • Interior Arrangements of, [16]
  • Mushroom, Under a Barn,* [16]
  • Of Dwelling House, [18]
  • Ordinary, [21]
  • Outhouse, [18]
  • Pent-up, [17]
  • Unheated, [17]
  • Vegetable, [12]
  • Warm, [19]
  • Wholly Devoted to Mushroom Growing, [15]
• Cellars, [10]
  • Artificial Heating, [17]
  • Cool, Airy, [20]
  • Flat Roofed Mushroom, [18]
  • Mushrooms in, [25]
  • Potato, [18]
  • Underground, [15], [27]
• Cistern, Large Underground, [18]
• Coal, Nut and Stove, [33]
• Cold and Vermin, [19]
• Cooking Mushrooms, [150]
• Crop, Common Average, [30]
  • Gathering the, [17]
  • Marketing the, [14]
  • Yielding, [31]
• Crops, Capital, [17]
• Cut Flower Season, [11]
• Dirt, Roadside, [101]
• Doors, Double, [16]
  • Outside, [35]
  • Single, [16]
• Drip, Cold, Falling upon Beds, [36]
  • Crop Suffering From, [51]
  • From Benches, the Effects of, [51]
  • In Commercial Greenhouses, [52]
  • Plan for Warding off, [52]
• Dust and Noxious Gas, [17]
• Entrance, [16]
• Entrance Pits, [30]
• Economy, False, [37]
• Families, Private, [18]
• Farmers, [13]
• Flies, Manure, [126]
  • Manure, Ill-favor of, [126]
  • Manure Perfectly Harmless, [127]
• Fire, Danger of, [33]
• Flock, [132]
  • How General is, [134]
  • The Cause of, [133]
  • The Habits and Manner of Growth of, [133]
  • The Worst Mushroom Disease, [132]
  • What it Looks Like, [134]
  • What is, [133]
• Floor, A Dry, Necessary, [47]
  • Common Earth, [47]
  • Dry, [35], [39]
  • Earthen, [21]
• Flooring, [29]
• Fogging Off, [106], 131
  • Favorable Conditions for, [132]
  • The Cause of, [131]
• Florists, [11]
• Florists' Greenhouses, [10]
• Frame, Boxed-up with Straw Covering,* [19]
  • Covered with Calico, [20]
  • Covered with Oiled Paper, [20]
  • Common Hotbed Box, [45]
  • Preparing Beds in the, [46]
  • Shading the, [47]
  • Spawning in, [46]
• Frost, Hoar, [35]
  • To Exclude, [40]
• Fruit Room, [12]
• Furnace, Boxed off, [17]
• Gardens, Private, [37]
• Grapery, Beds and Frames Inside the, [13]
• Greenhouse Bench, Boxed Mushroom Bed Under,* [41]
• Greenhouse Benches, Among Other Plants on, [48]
• Greenhouse Benches, On, [42]
• Greenhouse Benches, Under, [47]
• Greenhouses, Beds in Open, Airy, [53]
  • Cool, [41]
  • Growing Mushrooms in, [41]
  • In Frames in, [44]
  • Steam-heated, [48]
• Growers, Parisian, [60]
• Heat, Artificial not Absolutely Necessary, [17]
  • Fire, [17]
  • Parching, [17]
• Heater, Base-burning Water,* [32]
  • Vertical Section,* [32]
• Heating Apparatus, [28]
• Hoe, Angular-pointed, [23]
• Hops, Spent, [68]
  • Spent, Cost Nothing, [69]
• Horses, Those who Keep, [13]
• Hotbed Frames, [44]
• House, A Mushroom, [34]
  • Cow, [13]
  • Ground Plan of Mrs. Osborne's Mushroom,* [36]
  • In Dwelling, [18]
  • Interior Arrangement of Mushroom, [37]
  • Interior View of Mr. Henshaw's Mushroom,* [38]
  • Mr. Samuel Henshaw's, [37]
  • Mushroom, Built Against North-facing Wall,* [34]
  • Section of Mrs. Osborne's,* [35]
• Houses, Fruit-forcing, [12]
  • Growing Mushrooms in Rose, [49]
  • Lettuce, Mushrooms in, [50]
  • Tomato-forcing, Mushrooms in, [49]
  • Well-sheltered in Winter, [34]
• Insecticide, Common Salt as an, [113]
• Leaves, Condition of, to Heat, [68]
  • Fermenting, Beds Composed of, [68]
  • Oak, the Best, [67]
  • Quick-rotting, [67]
  • Tree, [67]
• Lettuce House, Moisture of, [10]
• Lice, Wood, [129]
• Loam and Manure, [11]
  • Mixed, [72]
  • Mixed, Temperature of, [77]
  • Mixed, To Prepare, [73]
• Loam, Coating, [20]
  • Common, for Casing, [100]
  • Containing Old Manure, [101]
  • Fibrous, Mellow, Best for Earthing Over, [103]
  • Fresh Sod, [100]
  • Heavy, Clayey, [101]
  • Ordinary Field Soil, [26]
  • Sod, Reasons for Use of, [73]
  • Topdressing with, [107]
• Lot, Village or Suburban, [13]
• Manure, [13]
  • Baled, [64]
  • Cellar, [62]
  • City Stable, [63]
  • Common Horse, [21]
  • Cow, [65]
  • Cow, Necessary in Manufacture of Spawn, [66]
  • Drying by Exposure, [71]
  • Fermenting Fresh Horse, [24]
  • "Fire-fanged," [62]
  • Firmly Packed, [70]
  • Flies, [124], 126
  • Fresh, [12]
  • Fresher the Better, [58]
  • From City Stables, [26]
  • German Peat Moss Stable, [66]
  • Handling, [35]
  • Homemade, [60]
  • Horse, [57]
  • Hog, Mycelium Evades, [63]
  • Liquid, [113]
  • Liquid, Cow and Sheep, [113]
  • Of Entire Horses, [60]
  • Of Horses fed with Carrots, [61]
  • Of Mules, [62]
  • Preparation of the, [69]
  • Preserve the Wet and Strawy Part, [60]
  • Proper Condition of, [72]
  • Sawdust Stable, [66]
  • Selected, [63]
  • Steaming Hot, [24]
  • The Best, [57]
  • To Prevent "fire-fang" in, [70]
  • Turning the, [14], 71
  • Warm, [13]
  • Well-rotted, [14]
  • Without Preparatory Treatment, [22]
• Market, A Good, [25]
  • Gardener, [9], [15]
  • Gardening near New York, [9]
• Markets, Brooklyn, [26]
  • In Winter, [10]
• Materials, Exhausted, [16]
  • For Beds, Fresh, [16]
  • Waste of, [17]
• Method, Mr. Denton's, [25]
  • Mr. Gardner's, [21]
  • Mr. Van Siclen's, [27]
• Methods, Avoiding Complicated, [21]
• Mice and Rats, [130]
  • Different Kinds of, [130]
  • Fond of Mushrooms, [130]
• Mice, How they Disfigure Mushrooms, [130]
• Mites not a Mushroom Pest, [130]
  • The Home of, [130]
  • Two Kinds of, Common, [130]
• Moisture, Condensation of, [46]
• Mold on Beds, How Deep to Put, [105]
• Money, Pin- [14]
• Mushroom, A Perfect,* [116]
  • Affected with Black Spot,* [125]
  • Bed Built Flat on the Ground,* [52]
  • Bed Five Feet Wide, Profit from, [12]
  • Bed, Rigid,* [53]
  • Beds, [11]
  • Beds in England, How made, [137]
  • Beds, Making up the, [74]
  • Beds, Manure-fatted Loam in, [26]
  • Beds, Manure for, [57]
  • Beds, Mr. Wilson's,* [51]
  • Beds on Greenhouse Benches, Objection to, [42]
  • Beds, Sites for Around London, [137]
  • Cellar, Perspective View of the Dosoris,* [58]
  • Crop, [13]
  • Flock-Diseased,* [133]
  • Food, [24]
  • Growing in the Paris Caves, [143]
  • Growing Out of Doors a Specialty, [136]
  • Growing, Profit of, Around London, [136]
  • Growing, Success in, [12]
  • House, A Regular, [12]
  • House, Best Kind of, [11]
  • House, Cellar Everybody's, [15]
  • House, Damping Floors of, [115]
  • Houses, Cleaning the, [135]
  • Houses, Growing Mushrooms in, [34]
  • Houses, Ideal, [15]
  • Houses, Whitewashing, [135]
  • Season Closed, [31]
  • Spawn, [78]
  • The "Horse," [48]
  • A Winter Crop, [14]
  • Advantages of Pulling over Cutting, [117]
  • After a Dry Summer, [55]
  • And Grapevines, [13]
  • Black Spot in, [124]
  • Cause of Black Spot in, [124]
  • English, [115]
  • Filling Stump Holes with Fresh Loam, [117]
  • Five Inch Diameter before Expanding, [47]
  • For Family Use, [13]
  • For Soups, When to Pick, [116]
  • Fresh, [12]
  • From Natural Spawn, [48]
  • From October Until May, [30]
  • Gathering and Marketing, [115]
  • Gathering Field and Wild, [118]
  • Gathering in Cold Weather, [140]
  • Good, [19]
  • Growing in Cellars, [15]
  • Growing in Fields, [54]
  • Growing, in Narrow Troughs, [59]
  • Growing in Ridges Around London, [136]
  • Growing in Sawdust, [67]
  • Grown on Greenhouse Benches,* [43]
  • Growth of from Spawning under Different Temperatures, [110]
  • Head Room, [19]
  • Importance of Care in Gathering and Packing for Shipment, [119]
  • In August and September, [56]
  • In Crates and Baskets, [118]
  • In the Fields, Plan of Growing, [55]
  • Insect and Other Enemies of, [122]
  • Knack in Pulling, [117]
  • Maggots in, [122], [124]
  • "Maggots" in, appear in April, [123]
  • Maggots, Size of, in, [123]
  • Marketed in Paper Boxes, [118]
  • Marketing, [118]
  • Not a Bulky Crop, [11]
  • On Greenhouse Bench Under Tomatoes, [45]
  • Packed in Punnets for London Market, [119]
  • Picking so as not to Disturb Buttons, [117]
  • "Pin-Head," [107]
  • Profit on, Clear Gain, [51]
  • Proper Manner of Picking, [116]
  • Pulled, Keeping Qualities of, [117]
  • Scooping Out the Stumps, [117]
  • Sold by the Pound, [118]
  • Sorting and Packing for Market, in England, [141]
  • Summer Crops of, [123]
  • Under the Benches, [11]
  • When Fit to Pick, [115]
  • Who Should Grow, [9]
  • Wild, [55]
• Mulching, When to Remove, [42]
• Mycelium, Liquid to Encourage Spread of, [77]
• Odor, Bad, [20]
• Outbuildings, [12]
• Paper, Building, [52]
  • Oiled, [18]
• Passage-ways, [18]
• Pathways, [16]
• Peat Moss, Bale of German, [66]
• Pipes, Heating, [17]
  • Hot, Injury from, [48]
  • Hot Water, [23]
  • Sheet Iron, [27]
  • Smoke, [33]
• Private Gardeners, [12]
• Rats, More Destructive than Mice, [131]
• Recipes for Cooking and Preserving Mushrooms, [150]
  • A la Casse, Tout, [157]
  • A la Crême, [154]
  • Baked, [152], [156]
  • Broiled, [154], [156]
  • Broiled Beefsteak and, [158]
  • Cooked, General Directions for Serving, [152]
  • Cooking, [150]
  • Cooking, General Preparation of, for, [151]
  • Curried, [154]
  • Dried, [160]
  • Gilbert's Breakfast, [156]
  • Ketchup, [160], 161, [162]
  • Kind of, to Select for, [150]
  • Pickled, [162]
  • Potted, [155]
  • Powder, [159]
  • Soup, [154]
  • Soyer's Breakfast, [153]
  • Stems, [155]
  • Stewed, [153], 157
  • To Dry, [159]
  • To Preserve, [158]
• Ridges, [17]
  • Casing the, [139]
  • Covering the, [140]
  • Covering with Litter, [139]
  • Drenching Rains Injurious to, [139]
  • First made in August, [140]
  • For Growing Mushrooms in Open Field, [138]
  • Method of Gathering Mushrooms from, [141]
  • Smoothing the, [139]
  • The Covered,* [140]
  • Watering the, [139]
• Roof, [35]
• Roofs water-tight, [39]
  • Of Tin, [38]
  • With Coating of Salt Hay, [38]
• Salad Plants, [10]
• Sashes, [46]
• Secret, No, [14]
• Shading on Sunny Days, [42]
• Shaft, Chimney-like, [16]
• Shaft, Tall, Wooden, [28]
• Shed, Open on South Side, [39]
  • Potting, [12]
  • Warm Potting, [40]
  • The Term Applied, [40]
  • Tool, [12]
  • Wood, [12]
• Sheds, Growing Mushrooms in, [39]
  • Unheated, [40]
• Shelves, Temporary Structures, [25]
• Shutters, Light Wooden, [53]
• Slugs, [127]
  • Attack Mushrooms in all Stages, [127]
  • Biting into Stems of Mushrooms, [127]
  • Fond of Mushrooms, [127]
  • How to Catch and Kill, [128]
  • Salt Distasteful to, [128]
  • The Cause of "Bullet" or "Shot" Holes, [128]
• Soil, Conditions of for Casing, [105]
  • Firming the, [106]
  • From Slopes and Dry Hollows in Woods, [101]
  • Ordinary Garden, [101]
  • Peat, or Swamp Muck, [101]
  • Sandy, [101]
  • Sifting, for Casing, [105]
• Southern States, [10]
• Spawn, [13]
  • American-made, [86]
  • Amount of Imported, [80]
  • Another Method by Lachaume, [94]
  • Black Colored to be Avoided, [86]
  • Breaking, [23]
  • Brick,* [80]
  • Brick, Cut in Pieces for Planting,* [97]
  • Brick, How to Make, [87]
  • Brick, the Best, [95]
  • Depth to Plant, [98]
  • Effect of Heat and Moisture Upon, [83]
  • Effect of Severe Frost Upon, [83]
  • English, [81]
  • English Brick, [23]
  • Flake, [82], [99]
  • Flake, Does Best under Cover, [95]
  • Flake or French,* [82]
  • French, [82]
  • French Flake, [24]
  • Homemade Around London, [137]
  • How to Distinguish Good from Poor, [84]
  • How to Get, [79]
  • How to Keep, [83]
  • How to make French (Flake), [91]
  • Imported from Europe, [79]
  • In Leaf Beds, [68]
  • In Manure, Do not Bury, [10]
  • Inserting French or Flake, [98]
  • Inserting more than Three Inches Deep, [105]
  • Insuring Development of, [49]
  • Lachaume's Method of Making, [93]
  • Making, Distinct Branch, [87]
  • Making French Virgin, [92]
  • Mill-track, [81]
  • Mr. J. Burton's Method of Making, [90]
  • Natural, [81]
  • New Versus Old, [83]
  • Never use Dibber in Planting, [98]
  • Other Recipes for Making, [89]
  • Planting of in Open Fields, [54]
  • Preparing the, [97]
  • Principal American Growers of, [86]
  • Relative Merits of Flake and Brick, [94]
  • Signs of Sterility in, [85]
  • Simplest Way of Making, [88]
  • Steeped, [99]
  • The Way in which it Comes, [81]
  • To tell Quality by Smell of, [85]
  • Transplanting Pieces of Working, [99]
  • "Very Dead," [84]
  • "Very Living," [84]
  • Virgin, [82], [91]
  • What is Mushroom, [78]
  • Where Obtained, [79]
• Spiders, Red, [12]
• Spores, Myriads of, [78]
• Spurious Fungi, [102]
• Stable, Empty Stall in Horse, [13]
• Staging, Erecting Temporary, [46]
• Stairway, [16]
  • In Pit, [32]
• Standard Crop, [9]
• Stoke-hole, [12]
• Stove, Common Iron, [26]
• Straw, Rye, [47]
• Sunlight, Protection from, [10]
• Temperature, [10]
  • At Night, [41]
  • About 57° Suitable, [23]
  • Fluctuations of, [15]
  • From 50° to 60°, [18]
  • High, [19]
  • In Dosoris Cellars, [109]
  • In Midwinter, [33]
  • Low, [15]
  • Proper, [75], [109]
  • Sudden Changes to be Avoided, [47]
  • Too High, Guard Against, [76]
  • Winter, [60]° Necessary, [38]
• Thrips, [12]
• Toads, [131]
  • Not to be Recommended, [131]
  • Upheaving Clumps of Mushrooms, [131]
• Toadstools, [102]
  • On Hotbeds, [102]
  • On Manure Piles, [102]
• Trapping Rats and Mice, [131]
• Traps for Wood Lice, [129]
• Tunnel, Subterranean, [27]
• Ventilation, Assisting, [17]
• Ventilator, Chimney-like, [22]
• Ventilators, [16], [28]
  • Side Window, [35]
  • Window and Doors, [21]
• Village People and Suburban Residents, [13]
• Wall, Cold, not Injurious, [30]
• Walls, [35]
• Warmth, Artificial, [17]
  • Steady, [17]
• Water, Manure, for Beds in Full Bearing, [112]
  • Space and Double Casing, [32]
• Watering, Endeavor to Lessen Necessity of, [111]
  • For, use Clean, Soft Water, [111]
  • Over Mulching, [111]
  • Pot, Size to use, [112]
• Wife, Farmer's, [14]
• Windows, [16]
• Winds, Piercing, and Draughts, [39]
• Women Searching for Remunerative Employment, [14]
• Wood Lice, [129]
  • Abundant in Mushroom Houses, [129]
  • Eating Potato, [129]
  • How to Trap, [129]
• Work, Clean, [14]

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