Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1895 — Some Great Mushrooms. [ARTICLE]

Some Great Mushrooms.

A gentleman who lately returned from a visit to Astoria says that while there he went over to look at what the Astorians called the “mushroom town” site of Flavel. He is not interested in the rivalry between the two terminal cities, but says that in the line of mushrooms lie has never seen anything to equal the Flavel town site and vicinity. There were acres and acres literally covered with the nutritious and delicious fungi, which were of astonishing size. He secured one which was nine inches across, as big as a soup plate, and weighed half a pound, the largest mushroom he has ever seen. There were others nearly as large, and any number of good-sized ones. Mushrooms sell here at retail at 20 cents per pound, and the dealers probably pay 10 and 15 cents for them.