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permitting it to remain till the heat had in a manner quite declined, then put on the frame and placed the spawn on the surface of the dung, and earthed it two inches with light fine loam, covered the whole, half a foot, with dry litter, as also the outside of the bed and frame, defending it with the lights tilted behind, and have succeeded.
I have observed, in the Autumn, in an old melon hot-bed a large quantity of strong spawn overspreading the surface of the dung within the frame, and running considerably through the mould, which was loam. Covering the surface of the earth with dry hay and litter round the outside, and puting on the lights, I have suffered the whole to remain undisturbed till about February, when the Mushrooms began to appear in as great a crop and as fine as
