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Boddington's Quality Pure Culture Mushroom Spawn 



BODDINGTON'S QUALITY PURE CULTURE 



MUSHROOM SPAWN 



PRODUCES MUSHROOMS IN FOUR WEEKS SUPERIOR AS TO QUALITY AND SIZE, AND MORE 



SURELY THAN ANY OTHER SPAWN 



Pure Culture Mushroom Spawn. The "new idea" is no longer in the experimental stage. The largest growers of Mushrooms use 

 the Pure Culture Spawn. 



Pure Culture Mushroom Spawn is propagated by a scientific process direct from varieties selected for size and prolific bearing. 

 By this new process, the chances of the spawn becoming "dead" and the crop a failure are largely eliminated. 



Price of Boddington's Pure Culture Mushroom Spawn, per brick 30 cts., by mail, 45 cts.; by express, 5 bricks $1.50; 10 bricks $2.50> 

 25 bricks $5, 50 bricks $9. CULTURAL DIRECTIONS FREE -IF REQUIRED 



ENGLISH MILLTRACK MUSHROOM SPAWN 



Fresh from the most celebrated maker in England. Made in bricks. lo lbs. will spawn lo ft. scjuare. 15c. jjer lb., $1 for 8 lbs., $10 per-ioo lbs. 



"How TO Grow Mushrooms" (Falconer). $1 postpaid 



A Few Hints and Instructions on the French "Mode of Frame Cultivation of 

 Lettuce, Radish, Carrot, Cauliflower, Etc. 



Fresh stable mainire, after being turned two or three times, is 

 made into beds according to the size recjuired for the number of 

 frames intended to be used, and pressed down so tliat the height 

 (or depth) of the maiuire be from 6 to S inches. 



The frames should then be placed on the pressed-down manure, 

 about iS inches being left between the rows of fr.aines. Five or si.x 

 inches of the very best soil, preferably mi.xed with one-year rotten 

 mamire, should be placed in each frame and well pressed down and 

 raked. 



T!ie frames being now ready, first sow the c.irrot and radish seed, 

 then cover with about H inch of soil, which should be slightly 

 pressed and flattened down. Tliis having been done, the lettuce 

 ])lants re<|uired should be pl.inted about 21 plants to a frame. These 

 ])lants must of course have been prcviouslv raised. 



A fortnight later, the caulillower i)!ants which have been grown on 

 should be iilanted in the same w.iy, bt'tween the rows of lettuce, 

 10 to a frame. 



The crop of radish is ready first, tln-n the lettuce, after that the 

 carrots, and lastly the caulillowt rs — all from the same bed or beds. 



If it is desired to grow turnip instead of radish .md carrots, the 

 Early Snowball variety should be stmn in the same way as the 

 radish and then the lettuce i)lanted, and a fortnight after the 

 caulifiower should be planted in the same way as recommended 

 above. 



The soil generally used for the inside of the frames is the soil ami 

 manure of the previous years' beds (i year rotted). 



The first sowing of lettuce is usually matie about October i in 

 coldframes, and successive sowings every three or four days inilil 

 Octoljer 30. The first batch is pl.inted out in the frames about 

 December 20, and should bi' readv for cutting in si.\ or seven weeks. 

 .Successive lots may be planted in the frames until the end of 

 February. 



The c.auliMowi r shoulil be sown in October and November, 

 planted out in the fr.uui's .ibont the begiiuiing of February, and 

 IS ready for cutting from the middle of May to the lirst week in 

 June. 



The turnip can be sown ,iuy lime from the middle of February, 

 and is ready to pull five or si.v weeks from the time of sowing. 



We are also agents for Sutton & Sons' English Seeds and can supply (on ord-eri in sealed packets, and will send their catalogue free to any 



customer upon application 



The Culture of Vea:etables and Flowers from Seeds and Roots (Sutton & SonsU 



and enlarged. Net price $2, mailed free 



Twelfth edition, revised 



