The best results are obtained by the use of our superior Mush- 
room Spawn, which is largely used by the most successful 
growers, Full and explicit instructions for growing mushrooms 
are sent by us free with all orders for Spawn. Everyone who 
has a cellar or outside buildings not in use should, by all means, 
Aes this most delicious esculent, considered by most people a 
uxury, 
English Milltrack Spawn. For many years we have been 
selling a special make of English spawn which has given ex- 
cellent results, producing large crops of fine Mushrooms. It 
is made with great care and is full of live ‘‘mycelium.” It 
is this that produces the Mushrooms, Jt is made in bricks, of 
about 1} lb., and each brick is sufficient for 8 square feet of 
bed. Per brick, 15 cts. Hey mail, 25 cts.); by express, 12 
bricks, $1.50; 25 lbs., $2.50; 50 ine $4.50; 100 Ibs., $8.00. 
Pure Culture Spawn, This is an Acacriod make of spawn, 
the method having been discovered by a scientist in 1903. It 
produces Mushrooms of excellent quality and large size, this 
being due to the fact that the spawn is obtained by a process 
of ‘grafting,’ only large and vigorous specimens of Mush- 
rooms being used for this purpose. Per brick, 25 cts. (by 
mail, 40 cts.); by express, 5 bricks, $1.00; 10 bricks, $1.70; 
25 bricks, $4.00; 50 bricks, $7.00. 
French Spawn. This spawn comes from France. It is pre- 
pared loose, in boxes., 3b. boxes, $1.25, by express. 
Dreer’s Mushroom Circular Free on Application. 
Senf- Ges. MUSTARD. Yfosiacn, 3: 
A Good Book on Mushrooms. 
Mushrooms, Edible and Poisonous, by Geo. F. Atkinson. 
One ounce will sow 100 feet of drill. Contains over 230 half-tone engravings and several colored plates, being 
the finest iilustrations of American Mushrooms ever published. The 
most dangerous varieties are fully illustrated. Full cultural directions, 
* Culture.—A small puIyael salad used with cress; the seed with flashlight photos of Mushroom houses, cellars, covers, etc. Price 
is also used for flavoring pickles, pepper sauce, etc. For salads | | ¢3.0u, postpaid. 
sow thickly in shallow drills, 6 inches apart, or in frames or 
boxes during the winter, where frost can be partially excluded. Suc- 
cessive sowings may be made every week or two. ~To grow seed, sow | 
in April, in rows 1 foot apart, and thin out to 3 inches apart when 2 | 
inches high. 
White London, Pkt., 5cts.; 0z., 10cts.; }1b., 20 cts.; Ib., 40 cts. 
Chinese. Pkt., 5cts.; 0z., 10 cts.; } lb., 25 cts.; lb,, 75 cts. 
MARTYNIA Gemschorn, Grr. 
Culture.—tThe se edpods are used for pickling, when gathered young 
and tender, Sow in the open ground in May, in hills 3 feet apart 
each way, or in a hotbed, and afterwards tr ansplant, If once planted 
in the garden, volunteer plants are likely to spring up the following 
year from scattered seeds. 
Martynia Proboscidea. Pkt., 10 cts.; 0z., 30 cts.; }1b., 85 cts.; 
lb., $3.00. 
OKRA, OR GUMBO. 
Essharer Hibisch, Ger. Gombaud, FR. Quimbombo, Sr. 
Culture.—This vegetable is extensively grown for its green pods, 
which are used in soups, stews, etc., to which they impart a rich 
flavor, and are considered nutritious. Sow the seed thickly in rich 
ground about the middle of May, or when the ground has become 
warm, in drills 3 feet apart, 1 inch deep; thin to 10 inches apart in 
drills. Culture otherwise much like corn. 
Perkins’ Long-Pod Okra. A exceedingly handsome variety of 
Okra which is a great improvement upon other varieties heretofore | 
grown, ‘The pods are very tender, long, slim and of a beautiful 
deep green color, The habit,of growth of plant is dwarf and it 
is very productive, Pkt., 5 cts,; 0z., 10 cts.; }1b,, 20 cts.; Ib., 
60. cts. 
Dreer’s Little Gem. The best of the dwarf sorts. Pods long, 
slender, and of a light green color, Pkt,, 5 cts.; 02., 10 cts,; } Ib., 
25 cts.; lb., 75 cts, 
Improved Long Green, (See cut.) Very productive; bears long 
pods. Pkt,, 5 cts.; 0z., 10 cts.; 4 1b., 20 cts.; Ib., 60 cts, 
White Creole (White Velvet), Pods free from ridges and very 
tender, Pkt., 5 cts.; 0z., 10cts.; } lb., 25 cts.; Ib., 75 cts, 
