RELIABLE VEGETABLE SEEDS" || 
Senf, GER. MUSTARD. Moutard, FR. 
Alostaza, SP. 
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 sow 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 three inches apart when 2 
inches high. 
White London. O2z., 5 cts.; 4 1b., 15 cts.; ib., 40 cts. 
Chinese. Leaves twice the size of the white, flavor sweet and 
pungent Pkt., 5 cts.; 0z., 10 cts.; 3 Ib., 25 cts.; Ib., 75 cs. 
NASTURTIUMS. 
Four ounces of seed to one hundred feet of 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 | inch deep, in light, rich soil, when all 
danger of frost is over, ‘Train tall on trellises, and grow the dwart 
in beds. 
Tall Mixed. Pkt., 5 cts.; oz., 15 cts; 41b, 30 cts.; Ib., $1.00. 
Dwarf Mixed. Pkt., 5 cts.; 0z., 15 cts.; 3 Ib., 30 cts.; Ib. $1.00. 
for named varieties sve pages 86 and 871, Flower Seed Depariment. 
Safran, GER. OKRA, OR GUMBO. 602% 
Quimbcmbo, SP. 
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 nutriticus. Sow the seed thickly in rich ground 
abcut the middle of May, or when the ground has become warm, in 
drills 3 feet apart, ] inch deep; thin to 10 inches apart in drills. 
Perkins Long-Pod. Handsome, large green pods. Pkt.. 5 cts.; 
oz., 10 cts.; + 1b., 20 cts.; 1b., 60 cts. 
Dreer’s Little Gem. The best of the dwarf sorts. Pods long, 
slender, and of a light green color, Pkt., 5 cts.; oz., 10 cts.; 4 
Ib., 25 cts.; Ib., 75 cis. 
White Creole (White Velvet). Pods free from ridges and .very 
tender, Pkt., 5 cts.; oz., 10 cts; 4 1b., 20 cts.; lb., 60 cts. 
Improved Long Green. (See cut.) Very productive; bears 
long pods, which remain tender a Jong time and are free from hard ridges. Pkt., 5 cts.; 0z., 10 cts.; 4 1b., 20 cts.; Ib., 60 cts. 
MARTIYNIA Gemfenhorn, GER. 
The seedpods 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 transplant. 
TMartynia Proboscidea. Pkt., 5 cts.; oz., 30 cts.; 4 1b., 75 cts.; Ib., $2 50. 
Mint Plants; (See page 39.) : 
DREER’S RELIABLE MUSHROOM SPAWN. 
The best results are obtained by the use of our superior Mushroom 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, grow this most delicious esculent, considered by most people 
a luxury. 
English [illtrack 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. _ It is made in bricks, of 
about 14 |b., and each brick is sufficient for 8 square feet of 
bed. Per brick, 15 cts. (by mail 25 cts); by express. 12 
bricks, $1.50; 25 lbs., 32.50; 50 lbs., $4.50; 100 Ibs., $8.00. 
Pure Culture Spawn. This is an American make of spawn, 
the method having been discovered by a scientist in 19038. It 
produces mushrooms of excellent quality and large size, this 
being due to the fact that the spawn is obtained by a process 
of *‘ gvafting,” only large and vigorous specimens of mush- 
rooms being used for this purpose, Per brick, 380 cts. (by 
mail, 45 cts.); by express, 5 bricks, $1.20; 10 bricks, $2 00; 
25 bricks, $4.25; 50 bricks, $7.50. 
French Spawn. This spawn comes from France. It is 
prepared loose, in boxes. 38-lb. boxes, $1.25, by express. 
Dreer’s Mushroom Circular Free on Application. 
New Book on Mushrooms. 
Mushrooms, Edible and Poisonous, by Geo. F. Atkinson. 
Contains over 259 half-tone engravings ‘and several colored plates, being 
the finest illustrations of American Mushrooms ever published. The 
most dangerous varieties are fully illustrated. Full cultural directions, 
with flashlight photos of Mushroom houses, cellars, coves, ete. Price, 
$2.00, postpaid. 
