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Many Uses For Mushrooms

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
June
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Not only human beings, but cows, sheep, squirrels, and many kinds of birds are fond of mushrooms. In manv places mushrooms are dried just as our grandmothers once dried apples, strunsr on strings, and hung from the ceillng for winter use. Some European species are used in coloring. One yields a yellow dye, another an exquisite green which colors the tree on which it grows; and from this wood is manufaetured the celebrated Tunbridge ware. The poor people of Fanconia, Germany, dry. preas, and stitch together a certain kind of mushroom, which is then made into ?anr.ents; and in Bohemia a large round toadstool is dried and the inside removed; it is turned bottom upward, fastened to the wall, and used to hold a beautiful trailing vine, which grosvs luxuriantly.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register