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VEGETABLE SEED SPECIALTIES ^ 



Cole's Early Watermelon 



Ripens Delicious Melons in Northern States, Where Melons 

 Never Matured Before ^^ 



Just as Valuable for Middle and Southern States, Ripening 

 Melons Weeks Before Any Other 



COLE'S EARLY is the finest Watermelon for the 

 family garden. People, particularly in our North- 

 ern States, can now enjoy, from the beginning to the 

 close of the season, most delicious Watermelons, for 

 COLE'S EARLY is not only the earliest variety in culti- 

 vation, but it continues to bear throughout the season. 

 The beautiful bright red flesh is crisp and of delicate 

 texture — granulated, cool and sparkling. In flavor it is 

 lusciously sweet and refreshing. 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 Watermelon, and it will mature large crops 

 in Northern States when the season is as long as that 

 of New York. {See cut.) 10c. pkt., 15c. oz., 35c. \ lb., 

 $1.00 lb. 



"I live on a mountain 3,675 feet above the sea level. The nights 

 are so cold that melons do not do well as a rule — but never were better 

 melons matured anywhere than those I grew of your Cote's Early variety ." 

 JAMES E. TUTTLE, Maywood, W. Va. 

 " Coles's Early Watermelons were of the best quality and also very 

 productive." V. M. BROWN, East Moravia, Pa. 



" The Cole's Early Watermelon seed from you produced the finest 

 melons ever raised in this section of the country." 



PERCY L. MILLER, Merriam, Kans. 



LARGE WHITE FRENCH MUSHROOMS-Virgin Spawn. 



A NEW VIRGIN SPAWN 



Producing Large White 



FRENCH MUSHROOMS 



ITS Sterilized Medium being freed 

 from other types, as well as 

 Bacterial Enemies, reduces the pos- 

 sibilities of failure and aids in insuring 

 a bountiful yield of the Largest, 

 Handsomest and Most Luscious Mush- 

 rooms known. 



MUSHROOM SPAWN propagated continuously by the ordinary method usually degener- 

 ates, giving decreasing yields of inferior mushrooms. Some growers, in their efforts 

 to overcome this deterioration, procure spores from chance-grown Mushrooms 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 a new method 

 direct from virgin spores secured from the finest type of healthy, large, white French Mush- 

 rooms. These being propagated in a sterilized medium insure freedom from inferior types 

 as well as the bacterial enemies so often prevalent in ordinary spawn. Virgin Mushroom Spawn 

 is sold in compressed tablets measuring 3ix24xl£ inches, to be split into four portions, each 

 portion to be planted ten to twelve inches apart. Full cultural instructions for Virgin Spawn 

 to every purchaser, which should be carefully followed. (See cut.) Price of tablets, 15c. each, 

 $1.50 per doz., delivered in the United States. 



" The French Virgin Spawn purchased from you 

 turned out beyond my highest expectations. The 

 mushrooms were large and lovely, and we had two 

 crops without any care beyond properly making 

 the bed according to directions." 



Mrs. F. W. BATEMAN, 



Great Kills, S. /., N. Y. 



AMERICAN "PURE CULTURE** 

 MUSHROOM SPAWN. 



RECENT discoveries in the produc- 

 tion of Mushroom Spawn enable 

 pure cultures to be taken direct 

 from selected specimens of specific va- 

 rieties, insuring a greater yield of move 

 uniform and marketable product than 

 spawn "run" from hit-and-miss, large, 

 small and unevenly shaped and colored 

 varieties of mushrooms. 



It is sold in bricks measuring about 

 S?>x5}xH inches. Each brick weighs 

 from 1J "to 1* lbs., sufficient to spawn 

 an area of 9 square feet. 



Price, purchaser' paving carriage, per 

 lb. 20c, 8 lbs. for $1.30, per 100 lbs. 

 $14.00. If wanted by mail, add 10c. 

 per lb. for postage. 



Our Leaflet— MUSHROOM CULTURE— Thoroughly Up-to-Date, Free to Customers on Application. 



