Identifier: birdsnature141903chic (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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coffee house was opened inLondon in 1652, by a Greek, named Pas-quet. This Greek was the servant of anEnglish merchant, named Edwards, whobrought some coffee with him fromSmyrna, and whose house, when the factbecame known, was so thronged withfriends and visitors who wished to tastethe new beverage, that, to relieve himselffrom annoyance, Edwards established hisservant in a coffee house. In Arabia and the East coffee is notprepared as a beverage in the same waythat it is in Europe. A decoction of theunroasted seeds is there generally drunk,and for the Sultans coffee, the pericarp,with the dried pulp, is employed. Theleaves of the coffee are used in the west-ern part of Sumatra instead of the seeds. They are prepared by quick drying, ina manner similar to that in which thetea leaves are prepared. In this statethev contain more caffeine than the bean. The average consumption of coffee inthe United States, according to Mulhall,is two hundred and fifteen thousand tons. Louise Jamison. 23?
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616 GLISTENING COPRINUS.(Coprinus micaceus). COPYRIGHT 1903, BY A. W. MUMFORD, CHICAGO THE GLISTENING COPRINUS. (Coprinus micaceusJ) Although bred only from the decay of higher organisms, these mushrooms are not withouttheir own beauty of shape and color.—Hugh Macmillan. While walking through the streets ofa country town during the spring, sum-mer or autumn months one is likely tosee small mushrooms—toadstools, thecountry lad will call them—pushing theirway upward through the crevices of theloosely laid flagstone or board sidewalk.More frequently they will be observedgrowing in dense masses by the way-side, usually near an old and decayingstump of a tree. In many instances thesemushrooms will prove to be the Glisten-ing Coprinus. From April to Novem-ber, though more commonly in springand autumn, they appear, and it is not anuncommon occurrence when a singlestump will yield several crops in a sea-son. Sometimes the group of mushroomsseems to grow directly from the earthand are ap

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