14 DREER'S GARDEN CALENDAR. 



LETTUCE. 



20 cts. per oz. 

 Laitue, Fr. Lechuga, Span. Garten Salat, Ger. 

 Early Curled, or Cut Salad. Brown Dutch. 

 Early Yellow Steinkopf, one Curled India Head. 



of the best for forcing, solid New Perpignaner, very solid heads, 

 heads, dwarf growth. Blood-red. 



White Cabbage, or Butter. Paris Green Coss. 

 Royal Cabbage, or Drumhead. Paris White, or Ice Coss. 

 The Early Curled is used as a cut salad, for which purpose it is sown 

 thickly, in frames, early in the spring, and somewhat later in the open 

 borders; the Early Cabbage is a fine early "Head Salad;" the Royal 

 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, 20 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 clown all over. Cover the bed thickly with straw, 

 and if out of doors, keep off the rain and protect from the cold with 

 mats or boards. In about five weeks the mushrooms should make their 

 appearance. 



MTJSK-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. per 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 



