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Show i Mushrooms. Mushroom culture in Franco is carried to ft groat extent. In the vicinity of Paris there are extensive ex-tensive caves formed by stone quarries quar-ries long since abandoned. It is stated that in these caves, sixty disc di-sc verity feet underground, and extending ex-tending great distances, the temperature temper-ature is equal and the air moist, and hero mushroom bids are made and immense quantities of the plants are raised for home and foreign markets. An idea of the magnitude of the business busi-ness may be formed vhen it is known that one proprietor has twenty-one miles of beds, another sixteen, another seven, and so on throng ;i a whole list. In the ramifications of tho cavt! of Montrnuge. just outside the f.irli riot lions of Pari, there are eix or seven miles run of mushroom bMin. It in entered through a circular cir-cular opening, like the mouth uf a I well, and the only mode of descent is ' a shaty polo furnished with cross bars, the base of which rests in darkness dark-ness bixty feel below |