nce of ground
pepper, salt to taste. Choose young button mushrooms for pickling, and
rub off the skin with a piece of flannel and salt, and cut off the
stalks; if very large take out the red gills and reject the black ones,
as they are too old. Put them in a stewpan, sprinkle salt over them,
with pounded mace and pepper in the above proportion; shake them well
over a clear fire until the liquor flows, and keep them there until it
is all dried up again; then add as much vinegar as will cover them; let
it simmer for one minute, and store it away in stone jars for use. When
cold tie down with bladder and keep in a dry place; they will remain
good for a long time, and are generally considered delicious. Make this
the same time as ketchup, from the beginning of September to the middle
of October. [The above recipes are furnished by Mrs. George Amberley, of
New York City.]

INDEX.

Ammonia Arising, 54

Anguillulae, 124
In Decaying Vegetation, 126
Scalding Water to Kill, 126
To Destroy, 114

Apparatus, Hot Water, 33

Atmosphere, Manure Steam for Moistening, 114
Remedying a too Dry, 114

Barn Cellars, 10

Bedding, Wetted with Urine, 58

Beds, 16
Alongside of Wall, 18
Banked Against a Wall, 53
Bearing in November, 25
Black Spot in the, 108
Boring Holes in, to Reduce Temperature, 76
Bottom of, 17
Box, 17
Casing, after Spawning, 100
Casing the, 104
Earthing Over the, 103
Experiments as to Proper Time to Case, 104
Fifteen Inches Thick, 22
Firmly Built, 76
Flat, 50
Flat, Sods fit only for, 107
Floor, 19
Flooring for the, 28
Green Sods, Method of Casing, 106
Killing the Mycelium in, 96
Loam for, 100
Manure, 20
Maximum Heat of Best, 75
Midwinter, 39
Mulching, 23
Mushroom, 12
Never Spawn, when Heat is Rising, 96
Odorless, in Dwelling House Cellars, 21
Of Low Temperature, 77
On the Floor, 13
Outside, 12
Parching Effect Visible on, 26
Picking "Fogged-off" Mushrooms from, 108
Rack, 13
Re-Invigorating Old, 120
Renovating Old, in England, 142
Ridge, 17
Second Crop from, 120
Shelf, 16, 29
Spawned at 66 deg. to 70 deg., 97
Spawning and Molding, 14
Spawning the, 96
Spent Mushroom, 121
Stale, 76
Tamping Surface of, 23
Temperature of a Twelve Inch Thick Bed, 96
Ten or Twelve Inches Deep, 19
Tending the, 17
Three Feet Deep, 25
To Keep, Warm, 109
Topdressed, 23
Under Greenhouse Bench