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House & 
Garden 
An Amazing Value 
This Attractive 
Lincoln Wren House 
$1.00 
Here is an unusually attractive bird house—that 
only wrens can use. It looks like a miniature log 
cabin. It is made of wood, tinted a soft brown col¬ 
or that attracts the wren; and has a substantial, 
weatherproof wood roof. 
The song of the wren is melodious and flutelike— 
its amusing ways make it a favorite with everyone. 
It destroys large numbers of obnoxious insects; it 
never hesitates to attack dogs, cats, swallows, and 
other birds when they near its habitation. But it is 
astonishingly friendly to human beings. 
The Lincoln Wren House can only be inhabited by 
the wren—and it is built to especially attract them. 
In appearance it is the equal of wren houses cost¬ 
ing five to seven dollars. And yet because we build 
in tremendous quantities—and ship knocked-down, 
in a form that any child can quickly put together— 
we are able to sell this attractive bird house for 
only $1.00—prepaid. (West of Denver and Cana¬ 
da $1.25.) 
Here is a real bird house bargain that you should take advan¬ 
tage of! 
Attract wrens—they will liberally repay any attention you 
give them. 
Send $ 1.00 now for each Lincoln Wren House you want. 
Take advantage of this offer today. 
If you aren’t delighted—money back. 
Fill out the coupon below and mail it in now. 
LINCOLN liiRENHDUEE 
PIANUFACTUREQ ay JOHN LLDHD LURIGHT inc. CHICAGO 
John Llovd Wright, Inc., 
703 N. Wells St., 
Chicago. 
Print your 
name and 
address 
plainly on 
this cou¬ 
pon—and 
mail it in 
NOW 
John Lloyd Wright, Inc., 
703 N. Wells St., 
Chicago. 
Gentlemen: 
Please mail at once [ ] Lincoln Wren 
Houses. 
Enclosed is $1.00 for each wren house 
ordered as above shown. It is understood that you 
will refund this amount if for any reason I am not 
delighted with the value. 
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Amone the edible 
varieties is Lepiota 
procera, or Nara- 
sol mushroom 
EDIBLE and POISONOUS MUSHROOMS 
D URING the later summer months deceptive. This is most strikingly 
a peculiar food supply makes its shown by the most dangerous Amaita 
appearance in all of our many forests species which are odorless, 
and woodland regions. These are the It has been discovered that the ma- 
edible mushrooms. This prolific growth, jority of the poisonous mushrooms can 
so bountifully provided by Nature, is be freed from their fatal properties by 
condemned by general opinion as dan- simply extracting them in a solution of 
gerous, and the excursionist finds his salt and vinegar, then boiling them in 
greatest pleasure in decapitating these pure water, and discarding the solution 
gayly colored plants. so obtained. But the poison is not 
Greater care should be taken of this only soluble in a vinegar solution, but 
almost inexhaustible sup¬ 
ply of food; but this 
presupposes a familiarity 
with these parasitic plants 
in order to distinguish the 
good from the bad. The 
blackening of a silver 
spoon boiled with the 
mushrooms is not an in¬ 
dication of their character. 
Such a discoloration re¬ 
sults from a process of 
decomposition by which 
hydrogen sulphide is liber¬ 
ated. Fresh poisonous 
plants do not give this 
reaction. 
Gnawed scars made by 
woodland creatures are not 
only found on edible 
mushrooms, but also on 
poisonous varieties. Even 
the color is not a distin¬ 
guishing mark, for 
many that are 
“poisonous in ap¬ 
pearance” are ex¬ 
ceptionally tasty. 
Then, too, the 
discoloration o f 
the cut end is due 
to a resinous sub¬ 
stance and not to 
any toxic proper¬ 
ties. Even the 
presence, or color, 
of a milky juice 
is not a deter- 
mining factor. 
Furthermore the 
odor and taste are 
only too often 
Amanitopsis 
edible 
vagina 
Lycoperdon gematuni is an edi¬ 
ble variety 
also in oil and alcohol. 
In this case it does not 
disappear by boiling, but 
only after an addition of 
tannin. As a result of 
this action, extract of 
tannin such as obtained 
from oak bark, galls, qui¬ 
nine, etc. is given in cases 
of mushroom poisoning, 
the symptoms of which 
are felt after a lapse of 
four or five hours. 
Mushroom poisoning 
can only be prevented, by 
knowing the exact charac¬ 
ter of the different species 
collected. This is not at 
all difficult since many 
good colored reproduc¬ 
tions are available in al¬ 
most any book on this 
subject. It is not neces¬ 
sary to be diffi¬ 
dent in the iden¬ 
tification of these 
plants. The ma¬ 
jority of them 
are not poisonous. 
Collecting them 
with care and dis¬ 
crimination is all 
that is necessary, 
especially if all 
those are dis¬ 
carded w h i c h 
seem suspicious or 
have a disagree¬ 
able odor. But it 
is always best to 
make a final de¬ 
termination of the 
A common edible form is Cli- 
tocybe laccata 
Scleroderma vulgare, or puff 
balls, are edible 
