. The Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette . with an actualinspection of the plants themselves, accompaniedby a running commentary, pointing out what tocook, eat, and enjoy, and what to reject or passon one side. Mere book-knowledge in this, asin other matters, is not to be trusted. There isa veiy general impression, for instance, that Puff-balls are not only harmless, but excellent . . , , , - -, x-t-. • - i, i as articles of diet; but there are Puff-balls and | who maintain that every kind ot Fungus is whole-Puff-balls, as witness the Scleroderma (Vegetable 1 some, though, happily f
. The Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette . with an actualinspection of the plants themselves, accompaniedby a running commentary, pointing out what tocook, eat, and enjoy, and what to reject or passon one side. Mere book-knowledge in this, asin other matters, is not to be trusted. There isa veiy general impression, for instance, that Puff-balls are not only harmless, but excellent . . , , , - -, x-t-. • - i, i as articles of diet; but there are Puff-balls and | who maintain that every kind ot Fungus is whole-Puff-balls, as witness the Scleroderma (Vegetable 1 some, though, happily for themselves and as we have heard it called), which was I they do not very often put tneir tlieoiy mproductive of such unpleasant svmptoms (see ! practice. We hear, however, occasionally evenp 989) Compare this with the giant Puff-baU— of fatal mischief, and now and then we .haveLycoperdon giganteum-the Vegetable Egg, as notices of minor bad effects from oui- correDr. Bull termed it. | pendents, as, for example, a few months smc.
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