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Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure By: William Falconer |
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A PRACTICAL TREATISE
ON
Mushroom Culture for Profit and Pleasure.
BY
WILLIAM FALCONER. ILLUSTRATED. NEW YORK,
ORANGE JUDD CO.
1892.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1891, by the
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
PREFACE
Mushrooms and their extensive and profitable culture should concern
every one. For home consumption they are a healthful and grateful food,
and for market, when successfully grown, they become a most profitable
crop. We can have in America the best market in the world for fresh
mushrooms; the demand for them is increasing, and the supply has always
been inadequate. The price for them here is more than double that paid
in any other country, and we have no fear of foreign competition, for
all attempts, so far, to import fresh mushrooms from Europe have been
unsuccessful. In the most prosperous and progressive of all countries, with a
population of nearly seventy millions of people alert to every
profitable, legitimate business, mushroom growing, one of the simplest
and most remunerative of industries, is almost unknown. The market
grower already engaged in growing mushrooms appreciates his situation
and zealously guards his methods of cultivation from the public. This
only incites interest and inquisitiveness, and the people are becoming
alive to the fact that there is money in mushrooms and an earnest demand
has been created for information about growing them. The raising of mushrooms is within the reach of nearly every one. Good
materials to work with and careful attention to all practical details
should give good returns. The industry is one in which women and
children can take part as well as men. It furnishes indoor employment in
winter, and there is very little hard labor attached to it, while it can
be made subsidiary to almost any other business, and even a recreation
as well as a source of profit. In this book the endeavor has been, even at the risk of repetition, to
make the best methods as plain as possible. The facts herein presented
are the results of my own practical experience and observation, together
with those obtained by extensive reading, travel and correspondence. To Mr. Charles A. Dana, the proprietor of the Dosoris mushroom cellars
and estate, I am greatly indebted for opportunities to prepare this
book. For the past eight years everything has been unstintedly placed at
my disposal by him to grow mushrooms in every way I wished, and to
experiment to my heart's content. To Mr. William Robinson, editor of The Garden , London, I am especially
indebted for many courtesies permission to quote from The Garden ,
"Parks and Gardens of Paris," and his other works, and to illustrate the
chapters in this book on Mushroom growing in the London market gardens
and the Paris caves, with the original beautiful plates from his own
books. The recipes given in the chapter on Cooking Mushrooms, except those
prepared for this work by Mrs. Ammersley, although based on the ones
given by Mr. Robinson, have been considerably modified by me and
repeatedly used in my own family. My thanks are also due to Mr. John F. Barter, of London, the largest
grower of mushrooms in England, for information given me regarding his
system of cultivation; to Mr. John G. Gardner, of Jobstown, N. J., one
of the most noted growers for market in this country, for facilities
allowed me to examine his method of raising mushrooms; and to Messrs. A.
H. Withington, Samuel Henshaw, George Grant, John Cullen, and other
successful growers for assistance kindly rendered. WILLIAM FALCONER. DOSORIS, L. I., 1891.
TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THOSE WHO SHOULD GROW MUSHROOMS 9 Market Gardeners Florists Private Gardeners Village
People and Suburban Residents Farmers. CHAPTER II. GROWING MUSHROOMS IN CELLARS 15 Underground Cellars In Dwelling House Mr... Continue reading book >>
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