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Cole's Early Watermelon 



RIPENS DELICIOUS MELONS 



in Northern States, Where Melons Never Matured Before 



JUST AS VALUABLE FOR MIDDLE AND SOUTHERN 

 STATES, RIPENING WEEKS BEFORE ANY OTHER MELON 



COLE'S EARLY is the finest Watermelon for 

 the family garden. People, particularly in 

 our Northern States, can now enjoy, from the 

 beginning to the close of the season, most deli- 

 cious Watermelons, for COLE'S EARLY is not 

 only the earliest variety in cultivation, but it 

 continues to bear throughout the season. The 

 beautiful bright red flesh is crisp and of delicate tex- 

 ture — granulated, cool and sparkling. In flavor it is 

 lusciously sweet and refreshing. The Melons are not 

 large, seldom over 12 inches in length by inches 

 in diameter, but what they lack in size is more than 

 made up in number and solidity. The heart is large, 

 there is little or no cavity, and very few seeds — all solid 

 flesh, the quality of which is sustained clear to the rind. It 

 can be grown successfully over a larger latitude than any 

 other Watermelon, and it will mature large crops in Northern 

 States when the season is as long as that of New York. (See 

 cut.) Price 10c. pkt., 15c. oz., 35c. \i lb., $1.00 lb. 



*' Your Cole's Early Watermelons are belter than you said they were. I raised 

 several last year that weighed over 20 pounds each and they were two weeks earlier than 

 any other kind I had." E. B. KEATHLEY. Kenton. Tenn. 



"Cole's Early Watermelons were of the best quality and also very productive. " 



V. M. BROWS. East .Moravia, Pa. 

 " Tlie Cole's Early Watermelon seed from you produced the finest melons ever 

 raised in this section of the country." PERCY L. MILLER, Merriam, Kans. 



"Your Cole's Early Watermelon beat all other varieties around here by three weeks." 



F. N. COLBERG, Cannon Falls, Minn. 

 "I live on a mountain 3,675 feet above the sea level. The nights are so cold 

 that melons do not do well as a rule — but never were better melons matured anywhere 

 than those I grew of your C ole's Earl v variet v." 



JAMES E. TUTTLE, Maywood, W. Va. 



LAKGE WHITE FKENCH MUSHKOOMS 



Virgin Spawn 



MUSHROOM SPAWN propagated continuously by 

 the ordinary method usually degenerates, giving 

 decreasing yields of inferior mushrooms. Some 

 growers, in their efforts to overcome this deterioration, 

 procure spores from chance-grown Mushrooms in field or 

 farmyard, but these, on account of the diversity of varieties, 

 their consequent varied merits and values, seldom prove 

 satisfactory. This new spawn is, produced by a new me- 

 thod direct from virgin spores secured from the finest type 

 of healthy, large, white French Mushrooms. These being 

 propagated in a sterilized medium insure freedom from 

 inferior types as well as the bacterial enemies so often pre- 

 valent in ordinary spawn. Virgin Mushroom Spawn is 

 sold in compressed tablets, to be split into four portions, 

 each portion to be planted ten to twelve inches apart. 

 Full cultural instructions for Virgin Spawn to every pur- 

 chaser , wh ich should be carefully followed. {See cut.) Price 

 of tablets. 15c. each, $1.50 per doz., $10.00 per 100, delivered 

 in the United States. 



"One could not imagine a more beautiful and productive bed of Mush- 

 rooms than I had last winter from your French Virgin Spawn. It was an 

 experiment with me but more than satisfactory." 



II. D. ROBINSON. Altoona, Pa. 



American "Pure Culture" 



MUSHROOM SPAWN 



RECENT discoveries in the production of Mushroom 

 Spawn enable pure cultures to be taken direct from 

 selected specimens of specific varieties, thus allowing 

 us to offer spawn from improved, pedigree mushrooms — 

 the prolific, large, round, well shaped, creamy- white kind 

 of such surpassing flavor. Spawn of this character insures 

 a greater yield of more uniform and marketable product 

 than spawn "run" from hit-and-miss, large, small and 

 unevenly shaped and colored varieties of mushrooms. 



Another merit of this American Spawn is in its being 

 produced from acclimatized mushrooms, which fact speaks 

 for itself. It is sold in bricks weighing from l to 11 lbs., 

 sufficient to spawn an area of 9 square feet. (S 



Price, purchaser paying carriage, p< r lb. 20c, s "is. for 

 $1.30, per 100 lbs. $14.00. If wanted by mail, add I 

 per lb. for postage. 



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