16 dreer's garden calendar. 



Cabbage is a little later, and produces fine solid heads, and is much, 

 esteemed. To grow Head Lettuce fine, sow the seed in September ; 

 protect the plants during the winter, in frames, and plant out early in 

 April, in rich moist ground, or sow in hot beds in February or March, 

 and afterwards transplant. 



MUSHROOM SPAWN. 



Sold in the form of Bricks, 25 cts. each. 

 Champignon, Fr. Seta, Span. Champignon brut, Ger. 

 Culture. — Mushroom beds are best made under cover. A dry cellar 

 or shed will do. Collect fresh horse-droppings without straw, turn them 

 over three or four times, to get rid of the rank heat, dig out a foot deep 

 of the space to contain the bed, lay some long manure at the bottom, 

 and then the prepared dung, a little at a time, evenly and well beaten 

 down until it is a foot above the ground, put a layer of light earth on 

 this, two inches thick ; after a few days when the rank heat has passed 

 off, place the spawn in the bed in lumps about two inches square and 

 six inches apart, then cover with light earth an inch thick ; beat it 

 gently down all over. Cover the bed thickly with straw, and if out of 

 doors, keep off rain and protect from the cold with mats or boards. In 

 about five weeks the mushrooms should make their appearance. 



MTTSK-MELON. 



Melon Muscade, Fr. Melon Muscatel, Span. Kantalupen, Ger. 



Jenny Lind, 10 cts per oz. Large Nutmeg, 20 cts per oz. 



Netted Citron, 10 cts. per oz. Persian, (very fine,) 25 cts. oz. 



All the above varieties can be recommended. The Jenny Lind is a 

 small early variety, the Citron and Nutmeg have long been the leading 

 varieties in our market, and are of exquisite flavor ; the Persian is a 

 late variety of large size and superior quality. Plant early in May, 

 in hills of rich light soil, six feet apart each way ; allow three plants to 

 each hill. "When about a foot long, pinch off the tips, to make them 

 branch. Observe not to plant pumpkins or squash near them. 



WATER-MELON. 



10 cts, per oz. 

 elon cPLJau, Fr. Zandia, Span. Wasser Melonen, Ger. 

 Mountain Sweet. Bradford, 20 cts, per oz, 



Early Mountain Sprout, Pomaria, " " 



Black Spanish. Orange, " " 



Citron, (for preserving,) Apple Pie, " " 



The Mountain Sweet is cultivated extensively for the Philadelphia 

 Market, and stands deservedly the first on our list ; when well-grown 



