Fungus Food The interest of the public in various mushrooms
as food has been so strongly marked and proved so valuable in a rather flavourless world that the Ministry of Agriculture has much enlarged and improved its other book on the subject ; and it will become available to the public in December. In it some nineteen sorts of the twenty-eight illustrated are edible ; and it is rather surprising that warnings are issued against as many as nine species. The country is still thickly dotted with a number of fungi: indeed I do not remember ever to have seen nearly so many at so late a date. I picked a specimen of the common mushroom and a large horse mushroom on November t3th ; and puff-balls (which are not such bad food) were still flowering in quantity on a Common that looks in places almost like a tilth, so vast is the active population of worms. Both worms and fungi are greatly bothering the secretaries of golf clubs and owners of lawns since poisons, at any rate the safer poisons, are quite unprocurable. Worms and weeds both flourish for lack of such labour- saving remedies.
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