October, 1907 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



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 suggestions about greenhouses 



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A Mushroom Bed 

 Is a Money Maker 



^^^^^^fc Mushrooms give a larger return per dollar invested than any other branch of horticulture 



^^^^ A very small cash outlay will start a bed. No such possibilities of success are offered 

 the novice in any other field of horticulture. Mushroom culture is not dependent on weather conditions, 

 neither greenhouse or even cold frame is necessary— no scientific knowledge or experience is necessary. The first 

 essential is pure culture spawn, the second need is ordinary care and attention — Just Pure Culture Spawn and ordinary 

 care, that's all. Pure Culture Method has eliminated risk andpossibility of failure as nearly as can be possible. 



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is the only mushroom compost of which this can be truthfully said. Every brick is inoculated direct from test tube culture. 

 Pure Culture Spawn is the only spawn from which you can breed definite strains specially adapted to specific climates 

 — definite varieties of uniform size, color and quality. 



The Superior merits of Pure Culture Spawn are substantially endorsed by Experiment Stations all over the country. 

 The Cornell University Experiment Station reports in its Bulletin No. 227 "Mushroom Growing for Amateurs": 

 "It is possible with the method employed by this Company to cultivate varieties true to the name 

 because the spawn is derived from known varieties, whereas most or all of the imported spawn may 

 contain several varieties mixed." 



Here are some of our definite and improved varieties — Bohemia, Delaware, Columbia, White Pacific, 

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Pure Culture Spawn comes in bricks of especially prepared compost that gives the 

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