The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 364
but, if they are to be kept a fewdays, they must be got with the stem entire. Half-dried drop-pings of highly fed horses, good spawn, and a gentle moistatmosphere, are the principal things to be attended to in culti-vating the mushroom. Fig. 70. represents the ground plan, which shows the sizeand… … Fig. 72. is a transverse section, showing the arches underand over the beds, the thoroughfare a in the middle, and theposition of the hot-water pipes : b is an open shed and generalworkshop; the receptacle for every thing requiring protection,too clumsy to be otherwise housed. A shed of this…