14 dreer's garden calendar. 



LETTUCE, per oz. 30 cts. 

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



Early Curled, or Cut Salad. Paris Green Coss. 



Early Yellow Stonehead, one Brown Dutch. 



of the best forcing. Curled India Head. 



Early Tennisball. Xew Perpignan, very solid heads, 

 White Cabbage, or Butter. stands heat, 50 cts. per oz. 



Boyal Cabbage, or Drumhead. Bed Edged Victoria. 

 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. The Curled India and Perpignan produce fine solid heads, 

 and stand the heat well. 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 sew in hot-beds in Febru- 

 ary or March, and afterwards transplant. 



MUSHROOM SPAWN. 



Sold in the form of Bricks, at 50 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 oyer three or four times, to get rid of the 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 project from the cold with mats or boards. In 

 about five weeks the mushrooms should make their appearance. 



HUSK-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. peroz. 

 Pine Apple, 20 cts. per oz. White Japan, 25 cts. per oz. 



Mango, for pickling only, per oz. 20 cts. 



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. 



