Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...lie watered once. The material is dump enough, if, when squeezed it will bind together without the exudation A common!!Se8dIushroom. f »» moistllre' The lonS« Pieces of A MUSHROOM 71 should be removed (to be used, if necessary, for covering the bed), and the remainder of the manure made into a heap. After two days, the latter should be carefully turned so as to mix the outside portions with those inside, and the process repeated two or three times on alternate days. Having made the bed, break each of several cakes of spawn into six pieces and insert them edge downwards, so that they are closely in contact with the manure on all sides. Place two or three similar pieces in seed-pans filled with manure, and plunge them in the centre of the bed until the edge of the earthenware projects about an inch above the surface. This must then be covered with light loam, which forms the "landing" of the bed, until the manure is all covered to the depth of about an inch. A temperature of 70 Fahrenheit is that which must be generated at the bottom of the mushroom bed. Directions To The Pupil (5) Write down the various parts of the mushroom which you can identify, including the "cap" and stalk. Make a drawing of the fungus as seen from the side, and label the parts. (6) Break off the head or cap: draw its upper and under sides, and describe them in your notes. (7) Take a quarter of the cap: break it across and make a sketch showing the gills in section. CHAPTER VI FUNGI--SLIME FUNGI (liYCETOZOA.) After becoming acquainted with the structure and life history of the mushroom, the nature student should turn his attention to other plants of the same class, of which there are many thousand different species to be found in our islands. It is sti...
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