34 EDIBLE AND POISONOUS MUSHROOMS. 



by country people as only fit for ketchup. 

 The price varies in London, as elsewhere. 

 We have been asked 2^d. per jDound i n 

 Hereford Market on one day, and found an 

 inferior article being sold in London the 

 next day at eightpence per pound. We 

 have noted the price in Paris on two or 

 three occasions, and found it one -half the 

 price demanded in London at the same time, 

 where, one year in particular, the price was 

 ranging from one shilling and eightpence 

 to two shillings per pound in Co vent Garden 

 Market. It is the general opinion with 

 connoisseurs that the wild mushroom is 

 much more delicate and of better flavour 

 than the cultivated varieties, and less liable 

 to disagree with delicate stomachs. Occa- 

 sionally a dark-brown scaly-capped variety 

 may be found in parks, with pink gills, 

 which is scarcely wholesome. 



