LIFE STORY OF MUSHROOMS 
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bed where mushrooms are grown is near, you will 
find more of these white cords in the soil. 

Fig. 264. Buttons of the common mushroom just 
coming through the sod. 
the food in the bed. So in the field 
or woods this spawn spreads through 
the earth. It takes up water and 
food from the soil as roots do, and 
yet the spawn is not a root. 
The beginning of the mushroom. 
If you can get a quantity of this 
spawn of the common mushroom, 
wash out the soil. Look on the cords 
for very small round bodies. You 
will find some very small, perhaps 
no larger than a mustard seed. You 
may find others as large as a marble. 
beds. 
This the 
gardeners call 
spawn. We call 
Lt my Cedi uae 
Gardeners take 
this spawn and 
sow it in new 
It spreads 
and increases, 
and makes more 
mushrooms, after 
it has feasted on 

FiG. 265. 
A deadly poison- 
ous mushroom with a 
‘‘bag’’? over the base of 
the stem. (Deadly ama- 
nita.) 
These are the buttons, the beginning of the mushroom. 
