1894 



GLEANINGS IN KEE CULTURE. 



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He suggests that it takes a good wliile to get 

 a good pel fi'ft stand. Never mind if it does, if 

 it is true tliat it will stand 50 years, or even 

 half that, after it is once started. I think I 

 could afford to grow plants, exactly as we do 

 caljbage-plants, enough to cover a good many 

 acres, if 1 were sure it would stand so many 

 years, and go down so deep tliat it would not 

 re(iuire manur*^ or cultivation or any thing 

 else. He also sugg(>sts that tliere is at pre.sent 

 no agricultural machinery known, capable of 

 harvesting th(! crop, especially in the tangled- 

 tip way in which it grows. Well, even if this 

 is true, will not the plant be of sufficient im- 

 portance to warrant making machinery that 

 will cut it? We do not know wlu^ther it yields 

 honey or not: but if I am correct it furnishes 

 a great amount of bloom and quite a quantity 

 of seed. 



MUSHROOMS— THE NEW KIND— AGAKICUS 

 SUBKUFKSCENS. 



So many complained that the mushroom 

 spawn did not grow last year. I took it out of 

 our catalog; but as orders kept coming, we have 

 thought best to put it back again. Another 

 reason why we decided to put it back is this: 

 Mushrooms have been coming up all through 

 our greenhouses, especially in ground that is 

 heated by steam; and the perplexing thing is, 

 it comes up in places where I did not know any 

 earth had ever been taken to, from the mush- 

 room-beds. As fast as they appear we have 

 sold them readily at 40 cts. per lb.; and some- 

 times a very small patcli of ground gives us 

 quite a little money, most unexpectedly. An- 

 other thing, a beautiful white mushroom — 

 white on top and white underneath — came up 

 among the others. I should have called it a 

 toadstool, but the stem was so thick and fleshy 

 it made me think it must be good to eat. I di- 

 rected Mrs. Root to cook a dish of them for me 

 alone. Of course, there were loud remon- 

 strances from all the family: but remembering 

 some experiences given on previous pages I took 

 just half a spoonful; at the next meal a whole 

 spoonful; then three or four, and finally I ate 



the whole of them. And now you see I have 

 got a iiew edible musliroom. I am inclined to 

 think it comes up (piickiM' tiian the mushroom 

 of coirimerce; Ijut, unless cookfd wlien very 

 young I imagines thf^y arn a lit tie toughcir. But 

 they are: so clean and whiti- they look almost 

 like new-laid eggs. 



Xafer.— Since the above was written I find, 

 by an American Florist ol recent date, tliat I 

 have actually got the new luushroom that so 

 much has been said about in the East— the 

 {A(i(iriciis suhrufexcens. Peck). In fact, the 

 spawn has becMi sold, and is sf^lling. for aught I 

 know, at $:> 00 (ler lb. 1 am not sufficiently well 

 posted to undertake to sell spawn, even if I 

 wanted to; but others may lind this new mush- 

 room in their beds. I believe it requires rather 

 more heat than the old-fashioned kind, and 

 they grow in clumps, three or more being at- 

 tached together at the stems. Tliey come up so 

 quickly that you are surprised in seeing goml- 

 sized mushrooms where nothing was noticed 

 just the day before. 



How did I come to have this new mushroom, 

 do you ask ? Well, my opinion is that tlui new 

 mushroom is probably scattered all over our 

 land; and when the conditions are right, very 

 rich soil and suf'tieient bottom heat. I think it 

 will make its appearance. Very likely it has 

 already made its appearance thousands of 

 titues, and been called toadstool. In fact, in 

 trying to put it on the market everybody calls 

 it a toadstool now. But you can, any of you, 

 test it as I did; in fact, all the edible mushrooms 

 throughout our land can be easily sorted out by 

 using a little care in the way I have described. 

 Tfiere is not a bit of need of anybody being 

 poisoned if he eats very sparingly of any new 

 variety that shows itself, until he has settled 

 the fact that it is wholesome. My digestion is 

 very easily disturl:)ed; but mushrooms never 

 give me the least bit of trouble— at least, none 

 that I have tried so far. Perhaps I might ex- 

 plain that the botanical name of the old mush- 

 room sold in the market is Agaricus campes- 

 tris. 



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