Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1895 — Various Uses for Mushrooms. [ARTICLE]

Various Uses for Mushrooms.

Some European species of mushrooms 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 manufactured the celebrated Tunbridge ware. The poor people of Franconia, Germany, dry, press and stitch togetner a certain kind of mushroom, which is then made into garments; 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 grows luxuriantly.