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Arthur T. Boddington , 342 West 14th St., New York City 



BoddiniTton'B Quality Pure Culture Mushroom Spa.wn 



BODDEMGTON'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 Calture Mushroom Spawn. The "new idea" is no longer in the experimental stage. The largest growers of Mushrooms 

 lise 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 Fare Culture Mushroom Spawn, per brick 30 cts., by mail, 45 cts.; by express, 5 bricks $1.50; 10 bricks S<!.60, 

 25 bricks $5, 50 bricks S9. CULTUKAL DIEECTIONS FREE— IF BEQUIBED 



ENGLISH MILLTRACK MUSHROOM SPAWN 



Fresh from the most celebrated maker in England. .Made in bricks. lo lbs. will spawn lo ft. square. 15c. per lb.,: 



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



for 8 lbs., Sio per 100 lbs. 



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

 Lettuce, Raddish, Carrot, Cauliflower, Etc. 



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

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

 frames intended to be used, and pressed down so that the height (or 

 depth) of the manure be from 6 to 8 inches. 



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

 about 18 inches being left between the rows of frames. Five or six 

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

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

 raked. 



The frames being now ready, first sow the carrot and radish seed, 

 then cover with about 'A inch of soil, Avhich should be slightly 

 [)ressed and flattened down. This having been done, the lettuce 

 plants retpiired should be planted about 21 plants to a frame. These 

 plants must of course have l)een previously raise<l. 



A fortnight later, the cauliflower plants which have been grown on 

 -.lif)uld be planted in the same way, between the rows of lettuce, 

 10 tf) a frame. 



The crf)p of rarlish is reafly first, then, the lettuce, after th.it the 

 r.irrots, and lastly the caiililliiw < r — .ill from the same bed or beds. 



If it desired to grow turnip instead of radish and carrots, the 

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

 radish and then the lettuce planted, and a fortnight after the 

 cauliflower should be planted in the same way as recommended 

 above. 



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

 manure of the jjrevious year's beds ( i year rotted). 



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

 coldfratnes, and successive sowings every three or four days until 

 October 30. The first batch is planted out in the frames about 

 December 20, and should be ready for rutting in si.\ or seven weeks. 

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

 February. 



The cauliflower should be sown in October and November, 

 planted out in the frames about the beginning of February, aiid 

 is ready for cutting from the middle of May lo the first week in 



June. 



The turnip can be sown any time from the middle of February, 

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



We are also agents for Sutton & Sons' English Seeds and can supply ion order) in sealed packets, and will send their catalogrue free to any 



customer upon application 



The Culture of Ve(;etables and Flowers from Seeds and Roots (Sutton & Sons). 



and enlarged. Net price $2, mailed free 



Twelfth edition, revised 



