JUST AS VALUABLE £0R MIDDLE AND SOUTHERN STATES, 
RIPENING MELONS WEEKS BEFORE ANY OTHER. 
RIPENS DELICIOUS MELONS IN NORTHERN STAYES, 
WHERE MELONS NEVER MATURED BEFORE. 
WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS THINK OF IT: OLE’S EARLY is the finest 
Watermelon for the family 
garden. People, particu- 
larly in our Northern States, 
can now enjoy, from the begin- 
ning to the close of the season, 
most delicious Watermelons, 
for COLE’S EARLY is not only 
the earliest variety in cultivation, 
but it continues to bear through- 
out the season. The beautiful 
bright red flesh is crisp and of 
delicate texture — granulated, 
cool and sparkling. In flavor 
it is lusciously sweet and re- 
freshing. The Melons are not 
large, seldom over 12 inches in 
length by 9 inches in diameter, 
but what they lack in size is more 
than made up in number and 
solidity. The heart is large;. 
there is little or no cavity, and 
very few seeds—all solid flesh, 
the quality of which is sustained 
clear to the rind. It can be 
grown successfully over a larger 
latitude than any other Water- 
melon, and it will mature large 
crops in Northern States when 
the season is as long as that of 
New York. (See cut.) 10c. pkt., 
“The seasons in this portion of 
northern New York State are as late 
and unfavorable for growing water- 
melons as anywhere in our land, as 
early frosts usually prevent them from 
ripening. Moved by the description in 
your catalogue, but having no hope 
of success, I planted six hills of Cole’s 
Early Watermelon, which produced 
perfectly ripened melons, weighing from 
10 to 17 pounds each, and one weighing 
29 pounds, before the frost came, Sep- 
tember 2th. These melons, in ripeness 
and eating qualities, equalled the best 
southern melons. You should add these 
words to your catalogue description: 
‘Cole's Early Watermelon will perfectly 
ripen full crops of delicious melons 
throughout the extreme northern por- 
tion of the United States before early 
frosts.’ Personally I am grateful to 
you for having provided this delicacy 
for us Northern people.’’ — GEORGE 
LEWIS, Potsdam, N. Y., Feb. 19th, 1902. 
‘ “Your Cole’s Early Watermelons 
ure better than you said they were. I 
raised several that weighed over 20 
pounds, and they were two weeks 
earlier than any other kind I had.”— 
EB. B. KEATHLEY, Kenton, Tenn. Gets ARIS TASER EO, 15c. 0z., 35c. / Ib., $1.00 Ib. 
LARGE WHITE FRENCH MUSHROOMS — Vira Spawn 
A NEW VIRGIN SPAWN USHROOM SPAWN propagated continuously by the ordinary method usually 
SE degenerates, giving decreasing yields of inferior mushrooms. Some growers, in 
--PRODUCING LARGE WHITE... their efforts to overcome this deterioration, procure spores from chance-grown Mush- 
FRENCH MUSHROOMS. rooms in field or farmyard, but these, on account of the diversity of varieties, 
their consequent varied merits and values, seldom prove satisfactory. This new spawn is 
produced by anew method direct from virgin spores secured from the finest type of healthy, 
large, white French Mushrooms. These being propagated in a sterilized medium insures 
TS Sterilized Medium being 
freed from other types, as 
Se 
well as Bacterial Enemies, reduces freedom from inferior types as well as the bacterial enemies so often prevalent in ordinary 
the possibilities of failure and aids spawn. Virgin Mushroom Spawn is sold in compressed tablets measuring 34 x2%x1% 
in insuring a bountiful yield of the inches, to be split into four portions, each portion to be planted ten to twelve inches 
Largest, Handsomest and Most apart. full cultural instructions for Virgin Spawn to every purchaser,which should be carefully 
Luscious Mushrooms known. followed. Price of tablets, 30c. each, $3.50 per doz., delivered in the United States. 
