Mushroom Weather Except perhaps for the worms, which have ploughed
our •lawns, and it may be the well-fed thrushes that have sung exuberantly, the one living thing that seems to have enjoyed the recent weather, in spite of the low temperature, is the mushroom, proper and imprisper. Many sorts are not only numerous ; they are of quite unusual girth. I found, for example, a common, smooth-skinned puff-ball among the raspberry canes which weighed very nearly a pound and a-quarter. It was so very white and smooth and even that I persuaded a rather reluctant hodsehold to parta* of it. Cut into slices and stewed, it made an admirable vegetable dish with the true mushroom flavour, though this was comparatively slight. Like most other vegetables, the quicker they grow the better they are ; and this in spite of its weight must have exceeded the speed limit. A great countryman, to whom I reported this, said that one of his favourites was the parasol mushroom, from which, I think, most people shy.
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