VAUGHAN'S SEED STORE. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, BOOK FOR FLORISTS. 



MUSHROOMS 



MUSHROOM CULTURE. 



How to prepare the beds 

 and raise Mushrooms, Robin- 

 son, best English book, cloth 

 bound, 50c., postpaid. 



MUSHROOMS. 



Raised From Vaughan's Special English Spawn. 



FRENCH MUSHROOM SPAWN. 



French Spawn is planted for the growing of button mush- 

 rooms. Ours is the very best to be had, being sown from 

 selected mushrooms. Put up in boxes of 2 pounds each. 

 Price, per box, 75o; if by mail, $1.20. The same loose, per 

 lb., 35c; if by mail, 45c; 10 lbs., $3.30. 



The essentials in Mushroom growing are: an even 

 temperature, 55° to 60°, maintained day and night; 

 well prepared beds with good manure; a moist atmos- 

 phere, where the air is dry beds lose their moisture 

 quiclily and must be watered. Water applied directly 

 to a Mushroom bed always injures the crop^ 



The last few years have shown a large increase in 

 the amount of Mushrooms grown and still the prices 

 are not only maintained, but incre'ased. Vaughan's Seed 

 Store has been most successful in supplying with satis- 

 faction both the Imported English Spawn (Vaughan's 

 Special )and Pure Culture Spawn to marlcet growers. 

 We make at least five importations yearly, so as to 

 always have a fresh supply. 



English Mushroom Spawn. o«r spawn is 



° ' manufactured by 



the largest and most successful maker of Spawn in the 

 world. He has made Spawn for some thirty years and 

 has kept up on all the new methods of manufacture. 

 Our Spawn is made by the famous tissue method from 

 selected specimens. It has been found that English 

 Spawn, as a rule, does not bear so quickly as the Ameri- 

 can pure culture, but it, however, lasts much longer Jn 

 bearing. 



English Mushroom Spawn. n-s 



a P £j C 1 A Li). 



Price, per brick, 25c; 5 lbs., ^1.00, postpaid. By express 

 or freight, per brick, 15c: 2 for 25c; 8 bricks, $1.00; 26 

 lbs., $2.00; 100 lbs., $6.50; if shipped from New York, 

 §6.00. Special prices on Vz ton lots and upward. 



Pure Culture "Garden City" Spawn. The best spawn for beginners. The 



highest development in the art of 

 Spawn making. This Spawn is made from tissue cultures from select specimens produced 

 by Spore (seed) culture. The bricks are inoculated with tiny threads from a young 

 specimen fruit, so that the special sorts or strains are produced, true to type. By this 

 selection of varieties the inferior yielding kinds are avoided. We carry the Cream Brown 

 or Bohemia variety, which has proven the best yielder. We can, however, supply the 

 Pure White. Brown, Alaska or Columbia pure culture Spawn. Price, Direct Bricks, in- 

 oculated from laboratory cultures, 1 brick, 40c; 5 bricks, $1,75, postpaid; by express. 

 10 bricks, $2.00; 25 bricks, $4.25; 100 bricks, $15.00. 



STANDARD BRICKS. Inoculated from direct bricks, per brick, 35c; 6 bricks, fl.4», 

 postpaid; by express, 10 bricks, $1.85; 25 bricks, $3.75; 100 bricks, $12.00. 



By W. Falconer. The best 

 American book on this s 

 pect. Postpaid, $1.00. 



MUSHROOMS. 



How to Grow. By Fraser, 

 12 pages. published by 

 Vaughan's Seed Store. Price, 

 10c, or FREE with every 

 order for Spawn amounting 

 to one dollar or over, if 

 quested with order. 



WATER MELON 



In watermelons for market there has boon a considerable change in varieties 

 the ijast few seasons due to the introduction of the Alabama Sweet and Tom 

 Watson, good shipping varieties of the long type melon, a type long associated 

 ■with high quality but heretofore too poor shippers. Growers who intend to ship 

 carloads away to market should be careful to find out what their receiving marltet 

 demands. 



K'l*»rH<»v'c Qw/<»<»t The quality melon for home and local market. With- 

 IVieCKiey ^» aweet. ^^^-^ ^j^^ highest quality melon both as to 



texture, firm with no stringiness. and sweetness, in which respect it has no equal 

 of all melons on the market today. In shape it is oblong, of good size, skin dark 

 green, flesh bright scarlet, ripening cIo.se to the skin. The large heart does not 

 crack open when ripe. Its one fault is that the shell is thin — will not ship with- 

 out breaking. Oz., 10c; 'A lb., 20c; lb., 65c; S lbs., $3.00. 

 A I <i ho ma ^\ii/*.<»to A popular, rather new long oblong melon with hard 

 Aiaoama av^^eeis. gheii, which makes it a good shipper. In color dark 



Tom Watson (New. See Novelty page 4.) The most popular market 



tiLami. gripping melon. In the few sea.sons since its introduction 



it has <lisplaced nearly all the old standard kinds in the large watermelon pro- 

 ducing sections. Oz., lOc; 'A lb., 25c; lb., 80c; 5 lbs., $3.65. 



S lbs., $2.25. 



Croo^-ViAori- A standard shipping melon of the round type. Vi 



OWCCliiCill I. , i ---tive "—1—" .,„;f, 



Oz 



and pi 



igorous 



he melons are large, uniform and heavy, 

 Sc; !i lb., 15c; lb., 40c; 5 lbs., $1.85. 



mottled liKhtaiid dark green. 



Imnrctvf^ii Wnlh'c rif^m The best known shipping melon of the old type, 

 mproveg i\.oio s uem. j.,^,,^^ ,,^^|^ ^j^^^ y^^,,,,^ Uotch on bottom. 



Oz., 25c: ' 1 lb.. ISc; lb., 40c; S lbs., $1.85; 10 lbs., $3.25. 



Tfiiimnh One of the largest and hand.somest of the large round shipping 

 I riumpn. „,„|„„„ Uark green. Oz. , Sc; >4 lb., ISc; lb., 40c. 



Winter Water Melon (Novelty). 'ChMlSutV. 'whu"! 



c:.n be kept until Christmas. Pkt.,10c; oz., ISc; 2 oz., 2Sc; M lb., 40c; lb., $1.25. 

 M»»./ Chilian Nearly round melon, ours is the early strain. A very fine 

 IMCW L-nilian. ,i.,v„rp,l melon: something diirerent and attractive for loc.d 

 market, Oz., lOc; '.i lb., 30c; lb., $1.00. 



7c the ounce on any of the following: 

 Citron, red seeded, 'A lb. 20c, lb. 60c. Rattlesnake, 



lb. ISc, lb. 40c. 



Colorado Citron. 'A lb. 20c, lb. 60c. 

 Cuban Queen, </4 lb. 20c, lb. 60c. 

 Dark Icing, V, lb, ISc, lb. 40c. 

 Dixie, U lb. ISc. lb. 40c. 

 Duke Jones, lb. 15c, lb. 40c. 

 Florida Pavorlte, 'A lb. 15c, lb. 50c. 

 Early Fordhook, U lb. 20c, lb. 60c. 



Oray Monarch, 'X lb, ISc. lb. 40c. 

 Ice Cream, »i lb. ISc, lb. SOc. 

 Jones' Jumbo, ^.i lb. ISc, lb. 40c. 

 Peerless, M lb. 15c, lb. SOc. 

 Phlnney's Improved, 'A lb, ISc, lb. 4()c. 

 Mountain Sweet, 'A lb. ISc, lb. 50c. 

 Mclvcr'8 Suirar, K lb. 20c, lb. 60c. 



COLE S EARL 



COLE'S RARLY. 



This is the Best Early Water Melon for the home market today. For sweetness 

 and delicate texture of flesh it has no equal. The rind is thin but brittle, and there- 

 fore not suitable for shipping; for the home market we know of none better. Extreme 

 earliness is its great merit. Oz., 10c; '.i lb., 20c; lb., 60c; S lbs,. $2.6S. 



The young and i 

 lb., Sl-.-^O. 



White London 



Brown 



New Chinese. , 



MARTYNIA FOR PICKLES. 



eiuler seed pods make a very fancy p: 



MUSTARD. 



Oz., 15c; U lb., 40o« 



.$0 OS $0 10 $0 25 

 OS 10 25 



05 IS 45 



QKRA. ...b. Lb. 



White Velvcc $0 05 $0 15 $0 40 



Dwarf 



Tall (Perkin's Mammoth). 



