TO BE SATISFIED ORDER FROM LANDRETH 



flushroom Spawn— imported. 



The culture of Mushrooms ta the initiated is very easy, but it is a subject of much difficulty to the novice. We cantkot 

 attempt here to give at length the necessary directions, but refer the inquirer to some of the publications upon the subject. 



Kept on sale in the form of bricks. Two bricks of spawn broken up into pieces an inch in size will spavvn a surface a 

 yard square. Tlie spawn is planted in dark pits, caves, in outdoor hotbeds, or on iaanks of compost. Better-quality spawa 

 cannot be bought than that we offer. 



ENGLISH MILL TRACK.— Celebrated the world over. 



Price per brick of about IJ^ pounds, 25c., postage paid. Price per dozen bricks, about 18 pounds, $1.50, by express. 



LAMBERT'S AMERICAN PURE CULTURE.— Earlier and larger than the English. 



Direct bricks, per brick, 40c., postage paid. One dozen bricks, $2.59, by express. 



LAMBERT'S STANDARD BRICKS.— 



Per brick, 35c., postage paid. One dozen bricks, $2.25, by exi>ress. 



Watermelon. 



Three Ounces of Seed to lOO Yards of Row. Four Pounds to the Acre. 



When the black Walnut is in one-inch leaf plant Melons. 



Watermelons do well upon sod ground or upon land prepared for their reception by plowing down a crop of Winter 

 Wheat or Winter Rye, the sod or grain aerating or keeping loose the soil. When the Walnut is in bloom the seed is planted 

 in hills at 10 feet apart in each direction. Two large shovelfuls of well-rotted stable manui-e dug and trampled into each 

 hill and covered with earth. 



The cultivator should be prepared with quite 4 pounds of seed to the acre, that he may have a reserve for replanting in 

 case of destruction of his plants by insect depredations or beating rains. 



One vine alone to the hill should be allowed to attain perfection. With 450 hills to the acre, there should be 900 first- 

 class Melons. 



Philadelphia Commission Merchants pay for prime Melons, as a highest price, $40.00 per 100; as an average price, 

 $10.00 per iOO. They cease to be profitable to the trucker when bringing less than $4.00 per 100. First-dass Melons are 

 always in demand, but the market is frequently overstocked with small fruit. 



Much of the Melon seed offered throughout the country is the product of immattire and deformed Melons reniair\ing in. 

 the field after all the choice fruit has been selected. 



Tki.a.Ij Grounds. — Ninety tests of Watermelon and fifty tests of Cantaloupe. Twenty plants of each sort, trained so as to 

 stand out distinctly so that the vines cannot interlace — a competitive test of most practical value as indicating relative 

 merit. 



I An#lKA(lif«' DAnfiVA 1C rlAiif^ —This is absolutely new. The vine is vigorous, 

 LdllUrC ins DUll 1 11 C, I 3 Day S. ^lie melons 10 to 12 inches in diameter, nearly 



^ round. The rind is a black-green, both gree a 



and Avliite part being ouly a quarter of an inch thick. Just beneath the skin tlie interior is of aii 

 intense scarlet color of a uniform brilliancy — no white meat — and the color, which we term 

 scarlet, is of a most dazzling effect. The meat, without an interior break or crack, is crystalline, 

 delicious in flavor, and produces exclamations of surprise from anyone who sees one of the melons 

 cut. An entirely new form, as indicated by the arrangement of the seeds. 



Lb. ^ Lb. Oz. Pkt. 



$2 00 70 40 10 



For Express charges paid by customer, or small seeds Postage paid by us, see inside of cover. 



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