Mushrooms, Edible and Otherwise 
A NEW BOOK 
By Miron E. Hard, A. M 
This volume contains over 600 pages ( 7 ^ x 10 inches) super- 
calendered paper, large type, and is embellished by 500 half-tone 
engravings, full page and text, made from original photographs. 
It is as good for the beginner as for the specialist. The work is 
an evolution—the outgrowth of years of research and work in 
the field. There is a Glossary of names ; an Index to Genera 
and Species ; a chapter on the Cultivation of Mushrooms, and 
Recipes for cooking them. Every teacher of youth and every 
student of nature should have it. Send for sample pages and our 
pamphlet, “Why Study Mushrooms.’’ 
THE VERDICT OF SUBSCRIBERS: 
BRUCE FINK, Miami University, Department of Botany, Oxford, O. : 
“ I have looked through Professor Hard’s hook on Mushrooms, aud we are beginning 
to use it in the laboratory. It is certainly a very helpful book for family, the teacher, the 
student, in short, for every lover ot out-of-door nature. It deserves a very wide circulation.” 
C. G. LLOYD, Office of the Lloyd Library, Cincinnati, O. : 
“ I am glad to note that you are getting along with your new book and that the photo¬ 
graphs are turning out well. I have looked over the manuscript of the book, and when it 
is issued I believe if your printers do you justice with good press-work you will have the 
most valuable work that has appeared in American mycology for those who have a general 
interest in the subject It seems to me that you have gotten the plants that one ordinarily 
meets, practically all of them, and that you have good photographs of them, and that the 
book will be the means of learning these fungi readily, and it is surely such a book as 
mycology has long wanted.” 
W. A. KELLERMAN, Botanical Department Ohio State University, Columbus, O. : 
“ Mushrooms, Edible and Otherwise is a book for the people who wish to know the 
plants when they are encountered in the lawn, field, by the roadside, and in the woods; 
it is uot wr.tten solely for botanists and specialists. The language is plain and the descrip¬ 
tive words seldom technical: when words not in the everyday vocabulary are used they 
will be readily understood by the clear explanations and illustrations used. All who are 
interested in the so-called Toadstools and the native Mushrooms will find in this book, 
illustrated with nearly 500 photographs natural size, just the help wanted to come to an 
understanding with these interesting plants and be on speaking terms with them. Which 
are edible and which are otherwise can then be known ; the book tells which are edible 
and which are uot, but one must in each case know and recognize the different species, 
otherwise this knowledge is of no use to the person. But aside from eating of delicious 
sorts, it is interesting to know the plants of the region—especially such curious represen¬ 
tatives of our indigenous flora as the Mushrooms are.” 
DR. CHAS. E. BESSEY, Department of Botany, University of Nebraska : 
“ It is admirably illustrated and the illustrations are accompanied by excellent 
descriptions. I am sure it will do a great deal of good.” 
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MUSHROOM PUBLISHING COMPANY 
SHULTZ BUILDING, COLUMBUS, O. 
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