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Muskmelons: In the fruit dish, varieties of forcing melons. In the opposite corners, netted melons. In the upper right-hand corner, the snake cucumber Cucumis melo var. flexuosus

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Title: Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954, ed Miller, Wilhelm, 1869- joint ed
Subjects: Gardening -- Dictionaries Plants -- North America encyclopedias
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries

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e bunks on a ship and are 100 feet long. 4feet wide aud 3 feet between the beds to allow a man togo through with a wheelbarrow. One house is 20 feetwide. It contains 13 beds 100 feet long. It is heated byhot water and the temperature is kept at tiO°. There arethree large housfs, and all of them with greenhouses ontop, where lettuce, cauliflower, parsley, rhubarb andradishes are grown with the same heat that grows theMushrooms. English spawn is used. It should be freshand new. The spawn is placed 6 inches apart in thebeds, in pieces the size of a black walnut. When theheat goes down to 90° the spawn is put in, and in sixweeks the Mushrooms are ready for picking. The bedslast from three to four months. The Mushrooms arepacked in boxes and shipped to New York. S. W. WORTMAN. The Trade in ^fHs7lrooms. —The trade in Mushroomshas grown from a supply of 30 to 50 pounds a day tothe enormous quantity of one-half to three-quarters of aton. In fact, the trade has increased in proportion with
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MUSHROOM MUSKMELON 1049 the price* according to demand and supply. The best season for the consumption of Muslirooms is the latefall and winter months, as they keep in the cool, dryweather for several days, and small dealers have notrouble with them spoiling on their hands. The priceduring these months varies according to supply anddemand. In the summer months a few will do well, butthey spoil so readily in the heat that dealers do not careto handle any stock; therefore, if there were a largesupply from June until October they would surely goto waste. The growers generally take advantage of thisami niiiw llieir beds in summer, and prepare for theciiuiiii, si-ast.n. One great mistake is that the smallgrowt-r is too anxious to reach the consumer. He wantsto save the little which the middleman or distributer gets,and he gives them to the retailer, to restaurants, or toothers, and these persons often take advantage of him.He is sometimes compelled to take from 25 to 50 percent less than m

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