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of the country (it is to be hoped they will be able 

 to distinguish the true from the false), patronize some 

 of the successful growers likely to be found in each 

 garden city, or get along without this luxury, which 

 may be classified among the non-essentials. 



When I mentioned the subject to Luther Burbank, 

 he threw up his hands and remarked: "Please don't 

 mention mushrooms to me ! In my younger days I was 

 very fond of them, and ate so many that I entirely 

 lost my taste for them. I will say, however, that of 

 all the things in the vegetable kingdom the mushroom 

 is the most finicky. I never thought it of sufficient 

 importance in an economic way to justify me in wast- 

 ing any time on it." 



Nevertheless, mushrooms are good when properly 

 cooked, and certainly add to the luxury of the family 

 table. As has already been said, they can be raised; 

 but there is no apparent prospect of overproduction. 



