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R. & J. FARQUHAR COMPANY, BOSTON. VEGETABLE SEEDS. 



.1 ISed of Farquhar's English Milltrack Mushroom Spa wu. 



MUSHROOM. (Agaricus Campestris.) 



CULTURE 



Mushrooms are more easily cultivated than many people imagine, and may be grown in any room or cellar where the temperature can be maintained at from 

 fifty to sixty-five degrees. For the bed, use fresh stable manure, which should consist of half droppings and half short litter; this must be thoroughly turned and 

 mixed; many growers prefer a mixture of three parts horse droppings and one part good fresh loam. Before being placed in the bed, let the manure be put in some 

 dry place to sweeten, mixing it thoroughly and turning it three or four times, when, if preferred, the loam may be added. Upon a dry, firm bottom or shelf, proceed 

 to make the bed by spreading a thin layer of the prepared mixture, pounding it firm, and continue thus till the bed is 12 inches thick. Leave it thus for about a 

 week, or until the temperature has subsided to eighty-five degrees. Then make holes about 10 inches apart, and put in each a piece of spawn about the size of an 

 egg. Press the spawn firmly into the compost about 2 inches, leaving the top uncovered to allow the excess of heat and moisture to pass off without injury to the 

 germs. After ten days fill the holes and cover the whole bed with 2 inches of fresh loam, and over this place a few inches of straw, If the temperature is right, mush- 

 rooms will appear in six to eight weeks from time of spawning. The bed will continue bearing from four to six weeks. If the surface of the bed becomes dry at any 

 time, it should be moistened freely with water at a temperature of eighty to eighty-five degrees. To stimulate the bed when it seems exhausted, the following treat- 

 ment will sometimes give wonderful results: Soak the whole bed thoroughly with water at a temperature of one hundred and ten degrees, adding one pound of sheep 

 manure to every five gallons. One brick of Mushroom Spawn is sufficient for ten square feet of bed. 



AMERICAN PURE CULTURE SPAWN. This spawn is produced by selecting spores from individual specimen mushrooms and is propa- 

 gated and transferred to the bricks of manure which, when planted, produce Mushrooms, uniform in shape, even in size and of a 

 creamy-white color. Price per brick of about 1 lb., 40 cts. Per 20 bricks, $6.50. Per 100 bricks, $30.00. . 



MUSHROOM SPAWN. Farquhar's English Milltraek. This Spawn is from virgin mycelium, germinated and developed under 

 special scientific methods, is not the uncertain material of the past, but is of uniform quahty, prepared by the most successful and 

 progressive mushroom specialist in England. We import every two or three months to ensure freshness. 



Price per lb., 30 cts.; 10 lbs., $2.75; 100 lbs., $25.00 



The following work on Mushroom culture will be mailed post-paid on receipt of price. This author is an authority on the subject and 

 gives plain and full directions. 



How to Grow Mushrooms. By William Falconer, $1.70. 



White Multiplier Sets. 



White Onion Sets 



Yellow Onion Sets. 



ONION SETS. 



Prices Variable and subject to change without notice. 



These are small Onions grown the year previous, ripened off and taken up when mere bulbets. They produce a very early crop 

 and grow in any good soil. Set them in rows one foot apart, 4 inches from set to set, as early as possible after the ground is in good 

 workable condition in Spring. 



White Sets. ... 

 Yellow Sets. . . . 

 Whits Multiplier Sets. 



Lb. 



4 Lbs. 



8 Lbs. 



40 cts.; 

 35 cts.; 

 50 cts.; 



$1.50; 

 $1.25; 



$1.75; 



$2.50 



$2.25 



Shallots. Prized for salads. Lb., 40 cts.; 4 lbs., $1.50. 

 Garlic. Used for flavoring. Lb., 75 cts. 

 Egyptian or Perennial Tree Sets. Ready in September. See 

 our Autumn Catalogue. 



