HORTICULTURE 



September 23, 1905 



AUCTION SALES every TUESDAY and FRIDAY 



An excellent opportunity to stock up with a high class of Decorative Stock, grown 

 by well known growers. Will also offer each day Bulbs, Dutch and Bermudian. 

 CATALOG NOW READY 



W. ELLIOTT & SONS - - - Auctioneers 



201 FULTON STREET, NEW YORK 



MUSHROOM SPAWN 



If you want Fresh Mushrooms you must have 

 Fresh Mushroom Spawn. My importations of the 

 best English Milltrack Spawn has just arrived — and 

 my regular monthly shipment of Pure CuliOre 

 Spawn is arriving this week. Price ; 



ENGLISH MILLTRACK MUSHROOM SPAWN 



Per lb. lOc; 10 lbs. for 75c.; $6.00 per 100 lbs. 



PURE CULTURE MUSHROOM SPAWN 



Per lb. 15c.; 10 lbs. for $1.25; $10.00 per 100 lbs. 



ARTHUR T. BODDINCTON 



SEEIiSMAN 



342 West 14th Street, NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. 



Fall Advertising 



IS RIPE AND; 



Ready to Pick 



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MUSHROOMS AND TOADSTOOLS. 



Good descriptions and illustrations 

 of edible mushrooms and toadstools 

 are given by J. C. Arthur in the Sep- 

 tember Country Calendar. He writes: 



"Old wiseacre ways of distinguishing 

 between good mushrooms and bad by 

 their effect on a silver spoon, change 

 of color upon breaking, etc., are now 

 very properly discredited. The way to 

 know mushrooms is 'to go ahead and 

 know them'; not by dangerous and in- 

 discriminate browsing, but by individ- 

 ual recognition; just as in gathering 

 from field and garden, one distin- 

 guishes between blueberries and bane- 

 berries, between healthful vegetables 

 and poisonous weeds. A sate and sim- 

 ple plan is to take up one kind at a 

 time, as opportunity for positively de- 

 termining its food value offers, and 

 become perfectly familiar with it, 

 either through the assistance of good 

 books and magazines or that of trusted 

 friends. Let all other sorts of mush- 

 rooms except this one kind alone until 

 they, in turn, can be carefully studied 

 and enjoyed in the same way. 



"Several clases of edible fungi are 

 so unlike any poisonous kinds that 

 anyone, with the help of ordinary care- 

 ful description and illustration, may 

 safely gather them. Among these are 

 the very abundant honeycomb mush- 

 room, or morel, the puff balls, large 

 and small — none of which are poison- 

 ous — and the inky toadstools. 



"In gathering all mushrooms, skip 

 the overripe ones. The inky toadstools 

 should be gathered before the gills be- 

 gin to darken, and prepared for the 

 table while still fresh. They do not 

 keep long even in an ice-box. Tinges 

 of black that are comparatively faint 



while the caps are fresh darken incom- 

 prehensibly in cooking. This does not 

 make them unpalatable or harmful, 

 but, of course, renders them unappetiz- 

 ing. Mushrooms are much the tender- 

 est of all vegetables, and the three 

 toadstools here considered are in turn 

 the tenderest of mushrooms. 



Llllium HarrlsM 



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Very Fine Bulbs 

 At Very Low Prices 



Per ICO Per looo 



5 to 7, 400 in case $3-50 $30.00 



7 to 9, 200 in case 7.00 65.00 



Five per cent discount for cash with orders 



Wm. F. Kasting: 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



383-387 Elicott St., BUFFALO, N. Y. 



