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Marasmius oreades can be cultivated on manure in gardens 

 and thus a supply of large fruit-bodies may be obtained for the 

 table. This fact is not generally known to mycologists nor, so 

 far as I am aware, has it found its way into botanical literature. 



FIG. 29. Marasmius oreades, wild and cultivated fruit-bodies contrasted. A, 

 B, and C, normal fruit-bodies from a field. D, E, F, and G, abnormal fruit- 

 bodies grown on a manure bed at Winnipeg. D, a fruit-body having a very 

 fleshy pileus, a small stipe, and reduced gills. E, the same in vertical section 

 (c/. B and C). F, part of a large cluster of fruit-bodies three of which have 

 been cut away ; the remaining fruit-body has a very thick stipe (c/. A, B, 

 and C). G, a piece of one of the thickest stipes (c/. A, B, and C). All 

 natural size. 



I shall therefore take this opportunity of recording the results of my 

 enquiries and observations with respect to an artificial Fairy-Ring 

 Fungus bed which I saw at Winnipeg in the autumn of 1913. 



The Fairy-Ring Fungus bed about to be described was situated 

 in a garden (now built over) in Gladstone Street, Winnipeg, and 

 was made by Mr. W. Maskell who, before emigrating to Canada, 

 had been a chef in a large house in England. As a chef, he had 

 long known how to employ the Fairy-Ring Fungus in making soups 



