16 NOVEMBER 1929, Page 16

* Of many of the benefits conferred by exceptional weather,

none has been more enjoyed in the country than the continual harvest of mushrooms. Even hard frosts have not arrested the crop. Oxfordshire villagers were gathering basketsful

ra a good crop as early as the beginning of July. It is late as November 10th, which is very late, and they enjoy indeed for this form of sweetness to be so " long drawn out."

W. Bneen Thome.*