New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-15
PASTURE MUSHROOMS.

perately Ill., The aminitas generally found
growing in the woods"
THAT IS the usual way Of finding whether they
are poisonous or not, isn't t?' asked listener III
you eat them and they do not hurt you. you know
they are the right kind: II they Kill you you may
know they are poisonous: Isn't that right?"
Yes that is about the way OF IT," answered Miss
Bedford with smile. "Of course. that is an un-
failing test. The rule Is TO taste every mushroom
you find Those with exceedingly strong. I'M
pleasant favor are TO be lie: alone: they are pol
sonous." -
EDIBLE MUSHROOMS.
"Wha, Is the most common variety Of edible
mushroom and where does 1t grown"
The ordinary pasture and meadow mushroom Is
the best-known. and its name indicates where It
may be found. When mushrooms have a woody
FEELING they cannot be eaten. Here is one-this
little cark brown specimen, You see, II feels like a
Dt OF WOOD or leather. Here is another interesting
specimen with peculiar smaller growth of O. par
site nature almost covering It, The Russula fam
fy OF mushrooms grows In the open woods and
nearly all the varieties are edible They may be
found during the whole summer In Julv the puff
SaVe sond some me fine o0ss and pasture lands
they are plentiful In Staten Island. In two weeks
they are about the only kind worth cuitiyatine It
Is rather singular that cultivation has very little
They grow as they Please ' ' %eaTly
al
growth Is very singular. One day you Will find
place simply covered with them. The next day NOT
one will be seen there. Many Of them dry up and
mushroom. Is natural ink plant Its Juice ma kes
such a Jet black stain that a suggestion was actu
ally made to the Government to employ il in the
printing Of banknotes. " VAC
-. They are wonderfully nutritious" continual
MISS! MISS Bedford enthusiastically. at is said that
nutritious as beef or mutton. 90
The caprinus may be cooked in four or five min
s S,es; ,, ~ is SO JUICY II may DC placed in sauce
Juice 10 cook itself, II has a delicious flavor
. This society Will meet every Monday afternoon
Almost every Saturday will be spent in looking for
derwood, Of the chair of botany in Columbia mi
ysss'y has recently finished of ten ect
augmented the membership. He sails for Eneland
next week. but the work will 90 on ali the sum
There are three Theological societies pbna-
delpha is forming ono now. We follow The niar
o. study mapped out by the Boston MvcoioaIcai
eiub, which Is the parent society i'm the Tinted
The society at Worcester, Mass was the second
formed. and our New-York society is the third
BOOK ON MUSHROOMS
The first work published in this countrv
On the subject Of mushrooms issued and COM
pied by DR. Curtis, the State Botanst Of South
carolina. The book appeared In the early STYLES
ana was published for the benefit Of the Confed
ssrate soldiers. when they should be hard pressed
IT, ~ 1000 Dr Curtis gave lis varieties that Were
are ar over four hundred known and classified One
seIeV. called the Aminita C9saria, grows there
d.b ne eo 5l0uh In greatest abundance 1t is Of red
RSHWSons the members present yesterday were Miss
r. RSoiofd Dr. Henry Piffard. DR.. n. A. Reinhold.
~. nary Edwards. Miss Bloomfield Mrs Witte,
o;,; Ms Conklin. OF brooklyn; DIR. Jeliiffe. j. w
'''"e'sF ana Miss z Hnxer.