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RELIABLtVtOETABLE SEEDS 



DREER'5 



RELIABLE 



English Milltrack Mushroom Spawn. 



The best results are obtained by the use of our superior English Mushroom Spawn, which is largely used by the most success- 

 ful growers around Philadelphia. The quality of our Spawn is well known. Full and explicit instruciions for growing Mu.shrooms 

 can be found in Dreer's '' Vegetables Under Glass:' By mail, 25 cts. Everyone who has a cellar or outside buildings not i« 

 use should, by all means, grow this most delicious esculent, considered by most people a luxury. One of the besl places to grow 

 these is under a (Greenhouse bench, where the thermometer does not run too high. 



Best English nilltrack Spawn, Per 

 brick, 15 els.; by mail. 25 cts. By ex- 

 press, 12 bricks. S1.75 ; 50 bricks, $6.50; 

 100 bricks, §12.50; 25 lbs., S2.50; 58 

 lbs.. S4.75; 100 lbs., $9.00. 

 French Spawn. 3 lb. boxes. $1 .25, by 

 express. 



Dreer's Ulushroom Circular Free on 

 Applicaflini. 



NEW BOOK ON flUSHROOMS. 



Geo. F. Atkiiij^on. Contains over 'ioi- half-lone 

 engravings and several colored plates, being the 

 finest illustr?tions of American Mushrooms ever 

 published. The most dangerous varieties are 

 fully illustrated. Full cultural directions, with 

 flashlight photos of ISlushroom houses, cellars, 

 caves, etc. Price, -?3.U0, postpaid. 



A Pl.^te of \Vell-gk')\vn Mushkooms. 



„ ^ — «-wr.<-^«w« « «r» w^ Silouiard, Fr. 



Sent. Ger. mustard. Mos:a.a:-.^. 



One ounce will sow about eighty feet of drill. 



A small pungent salad used with cress; the .seed is also used for 

 flavoring pickles, pepper-sauce, etc. For salads sov,' thickly in shallow 

 drills, 6 inches apart, or in frames or boxes during the winter, where 

 frost can be partially excluded. Successive sowings may be made 

 every week or two. To grow seed, sow in April, in rows one foot apart, 

 and thin out to 3 inches apart when 2 inches high. 

 White London. For salads and flavoring purposes. Oz., 5 cts.; } 



lb., 15 cts.; lb., 40 CIS. 

 Chinese. Leaves twice the size of the white, flavor sweet and pun- 

 gent. Pkt., 5 cts.; oz., 10 cts.; -J lb., 25 cts.; lb., 75 cts. 



NASTURTIUMS. 



Four ounces of seed to one liiinrtred feetof row. 



Cultivated both for use and ornament. The seedpods, which re- 

 semble capers, are gathered while green and tender for pickling, and the 

 leaves are used for mixing with salads. Sow early in the spring, in 

 drills about 1 inch deep, in light, rich soil, when all danger of fmst is 

 over. Train the tall on brush trellises, or fences, and grow the Dwarf 

 in beds. 



Tali Mixed. Pkt., 5 cts.; oz., 15 cts.; \ lb., 30 cts.; Wx. $1.00. ■ 

 Dwarf nixed. Pkt., 5 cts.; oz., 15 cts.; \ lb., 30 cts.; lb., $1.00. 

 [Special colors, named varieties, see Flower Seed Department.) 



Safrcn, Ger. QKRA, OR GUMBO. q2mJX. 



This vegetable is extensively grown for its green pods, which are 

 used in soups, stews, etc., to which they imparl 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. 

 Perlcins Long=Pod. (Seepage 8.) Handsome, large green pods. 



Plct., 5 cts.; oz., 10 els.; 1^ lb., 25 CIS.; lb., 75 cts. 

 Dreer's Little Gem. The best of the dwarf sorts. Pods long, 



slender, and of a light green color. Pkt., r> cts.; oz., 10 cts.; \ lb., 



25 cts.; lb., 75 cts. 

 White Creole [White Velvet"). Pods free from ridges and very 



tender. Pkt., 5 cts.; oz., 10 cts.; \ lb., 20 cts.; lb., 60 cts. 

 Improved Long Green. (See cut.) Very productive; bears long 



pods, which remain tender a long time and are free from hard ridges, 



Pkt., 5 cts.; oz., 10 cts.; \ lb., 20 cts.: lb., 60 cts 



M ARTYXIA. Gemfenho, n. Gw.K. 



The seedjiods are used for pickliag, 

 when gathered young and tender. Sow 

 in the open ground in May, in hills 3 feet 

 apart each way, or in a hotbed, and after- 

 wards transplant. 

 riartynia Proboscidea. Pkt.. 10 cts.; 



oz., :10 CIS.; J lb.. 85 cts. 



Mint Plants, (^^e page 47.) 



Improved Long Green Okk.\. 



' Mushrooms, How to Grow Them." by Wm. Falconer, postpaid. $i.oo 



DREER'S '-Vegetables Under 



Mushroom Culture" (Robinson), postpaid. 50 cents 

 Glass," 25 cents. 



