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House & Garden 
I lie Japanese Holly is a most agreeable plant, so 
pleasant and so amenable. It thrives in sun and 
shade, in the city, the country, and even near the sea¬ 
shore. As a specimen, or grouped with other broad- 
leaved Evergreens or Conifers, or as a hedge, its 
adaptability seems endless. You may care to let it 
grow naturally, or to shear it for a formal effect. Can 
he kept at any height desired up to 6 or 8 feet. 
Enjoy Japanese Holly on Your Own Lawn. 
Send $5.00 for a fine, bushy specimen, 2*4 to 3 feet high, 
boiled and burlapped, f.o.b. Morrisville. Quantity rates 
on application. 
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A Bird Bath will be a source 
of continual delight, enticing 
the birds to linger in your 
garden. The beauty of 
plants will he enhanced by 
interesting Vases and grace¬ 
ful Jars. 
Attractive designs may be 
selected from our collection 
of enduring Terra Cottas 
which also includes Benches, 
Fonts, Sun Dials, Gazing 
Globes and other charming 
decorative accessories for the 
garden, sun room and house. 
A catalogue illustrating 300 
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3218 Walnut Street 
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Lactarius pi- 
p er atus , an 
edible kind 
Edible and Poisonous Mush 
rooms 
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exact species with the aid of good 
reproductions. 
Never rely upon another person to 
do this for you. 
Mushrooms should never be collected 
in the early morning hours when the 
dew is still heavy upon them. Damp¬ 
ness causes them to decay rapidly. 
Moreover, they should never be plucked 
but cut closely to the ground so that 
the underground growth, the real plant, 
will not be injured, as this develops new 
fruiting bodies. 
It is well known that many mush¬ 
rooms occur in certain localities, such 
as pastures, mossy woodlands, and 
grassy edges of the forests. Such re¬ 
stricted places are preferred by many 
edible mushrooms. Species which are 
gnawed or partly eaten by maggots, 
worms, insects or their larva, or by 
slugs, should never be taken. 
As a result of the rapid decay which 
these plants undergo, they should never 
be kept more than 12 hours. 
Neither should the same dish be 
served twice, and under no circum¬ 
stances should it be heated a second 
time. 
They are only to be placed on the 
table once. 
Besides their usefulness as a food, 
these plants are exceptionally tasty. In 
food value they favorably compare to 
meat, and their content of albumen is 
equally as high, while it far exceeds that 
of grain. Then, too, they are excep¬ 
tionally rich in salts and sugar such 
as manite and laevulose, so that, with¬ 
out exaggeration, the mushrooms repre¬ 
sent the meat of the forests. 
Mushrooms are the sanitary police 
of field and forest. Theirs is the task 
to break down rotting and decaying 
matter, to assimilate the products of 
decomposition, and to use them in the 
development of their structures. This 
is true of both the edible and the 
poisonous species. 
Agaricus campestris, the common cul¬ 
tivated mushroom, when full grown is 
a somewhat umbrella-like plant with a 
central stalk which supports a rather 
thick cap. The stem may be from 2" 
to 5 " in height and 1" or more in diam¬ 
eter. Above the middle there is a ring 
or annulus. The cap varies in color 
from cream to brown or gray-brown. 
It bears on the underside the gills, 
blade-like lamellae, which, when first 
discovered, are a beautiful pink color. 
Later they darken and eventually be¬ 
come almost black. 
Agaricus arvensis, known as the horse 
mushroom, has much the same qualities 
as Agaricus campestris. They are larger 
and stouter than the field mushroom 
and possess a double ring. 
Agaricus fabaceus is the almond 
flavored mushroom. This is easily dis¬ 
tinguished by the membranous veil 
covered with frosty scales. 
Clitocybe illudens is classed 
among the unwholesome 
Clavaria cristata, of coral form, 
is considered edible 
Coptinus micaeus is among the Agaricus sylvaticus is an edible 
recommended edible varieties but unimportant type 
