Elementary Agriculture and Horticulture / authorized by the Minister of Education . 15. Poisonous species of muslirooni. 1. Immature form; 2, formnearly mature; 3, mature individual, volva, or cup; E. gills;P. pileus, or cap, with remains of volva on the surface;A. ring; B. stalk. Exercise 10: A part of one afternoon in October should* be devotedby the whole school to searching for mushrooms. Thespecimens may be brought to the class-room and classified OCTOBER: EXERCISES ?.3 as indicated above. A beautiful spore-print, sbowingclearly the colour of the spores, may be obtained by plac-ing the ca
Elementary Agriculture and Horticulture / authorized by the Minister of Education . 15. Poisonous species of muslirooni. 1. Immature form; 2, formnearly mature; 3, mature individual, volva, or cup; E. gills;P. pileus, or cap, with remains of volva on the surface;A. ring; B. stalk. Exercise 10: A part of one afternoon in October should* be devotedby the whole school to searching for mushrooms. Thespecimens may be brought to the class-room and classified OCTOBER: EXERCISES ?.3 as indicated above. A beautiful spore-print, sbowingclearly the colour of the spores, may be obtained by plac-ing the cap of the mushroom, gills down, on a ])aper, whiteor dark-coloured, depending on the colour expected, cover-ing it with an inverted bowl, dish, or hat, and leavingit for a few 16. Common mushroom, edible. 4, Young individual in thebutton stage; 5, nearly mature; 6, mature form, ; E. gills; B. stalk; C. rounded base of stalk; H. re-mains of ring still attached to pileus, or cap. No volvapersisting either on the top of the cap or at the base. ExKucisE 11: Bulbs.—Secure from tlie dealer bulbs of hyacinths andtulips, perhaps also of narcissi and Jonquils. Point outto the pupils that the food supply, upon which the ])lantdraws to produce flowers, is stored up in the bulbs pL-rlurni a function siniihir to that of will thus be > that fertile soil is not necessary, andthat moist sand or gravel, or even water, if repeatedlychanged, may be used instead of soil. U ELEAIENTARY AGRICULTURE and narcissi are especial favourites fur houseplants. They should be started in the autumn iu jarscontaining- moist gravel or coarse sand, or in pots withsandy, loose soil. Bulbs should lie planted in the autunni (October orNovember)
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