196 ON THE CULTIVATION OF CERTAIN FUNQI. 



one grew before. Surely, then, lie is not to be despised who can 

 render available a new food of the highest nutritive quality, or 

 increase the crops of it, even if that food be found in " fruits of 

 the earth," which blasphemers of nature, ignorant and prejudiced, 

 have hitherto only neglected, ridiculed, and aspersed ! 



