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GEORGIA 
RATTLESNAKE 
One o£ the oldest and most 
popular sorts and fre- 
quently known as 
GYPSY. A large oblong 
variety with decided 
stripes, of light and deep 
green. Rind is tough, 
but flesh is of good 
quality and bright red; 
a good shipping and 
market melon. Is quite 
as generally used by the 
large melon growers as 
Kleckley Sweets and is 
perhaps hardier and 
more profitable, being 
very easily grown. Pkt. 
5c; oz. loc; U lb. 25c; 
lb. 75c. 
NASTURTIUM 
The green seed of nastur- 
tium has a sharp, pungent 
flavor, and when pickled 
makes an excellent condiment 
It is also valuable as a flow- 
er and serves a double pur- 
pose in the garden. Pkt, 
5c; oz. loc; y t lb. 25c; 
lb. 75c. 
English Mushrooms 
Georgia Rattlesnake Watermelon 
MUSHROOM SPAWN 
CULTURAL DIRECTIONS 
Ten pounds will spawn about ten feet square. Mushrooms can be grown in any dark 
room or cellar where the temperature can be kept at from 50 to 70 degrees. From some 
old pasture procure good rich soil, and to every bushel of this soil add two bushels of 
fresh horse manure. Of this well-mixed compound prepare a bed, sav four feet wide. 
Put down a thin layer and pound it down hard, and go on until you have a bed twelve 
or eighteen inches thick. As soon as the temperature of the bed falls from ~r, to .-,(> 
degrees, the spawn may be inserted in pieces about the size of a walnut about two 
inches deep and six inches apart. Cover with loamy soil about two inches deep and 
beat it down evenly and firmly. Finish off with a covering of clean hay, about a foot 
thick, and the work is done. If the temperature is right, in six or eighl. weeks you may 
expect mushrooms. The beds will continue bearing from twenty to thirt y days. Af- 
ter the first crop is gathered spread over the bed an inch of fresh soil, moisten with warm 
water, and cover with hay as before. The main conditions in mushroom-growing 
are proper and uniform temperature and very rich soil. 
English Mushroom Spawn. It comes in pressed bricks weighing about twenty 
ounces. Brick, 35c, postpaid; by express, brick 25c; 10 lbs. $1.50. 
MUSTARD 
The leaves of these varieties of mustard, as here listed, 
make excellent greens of sharp, pungent flavor, and are 
cooked the same as spinach or beet leaves. Sow the 
seed in drills early in the spring and at frequent inter- 
vals throughout the summer to secure a constant 
supply of fresh greens. Mustard is hardy and is easily 
grown. One ounce will sow fifty feet of row. 
Chinese. A very hardy, broad-leaved variety. 
Leaves are thick and deeply savoyed, with broad 
white midrib. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; U, lb. 15c; 
lb. 40c. 
GIANT SOUTHERN CURLED 
Large variety, forming a great mass of beautiful 
leaves, which are ruffled and finely curled on the 
edges. Hardy, vigorous, highly recommended. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; Ji lb. 15c; lb. 50c. 
Fordhook Fancy. A very handsome variety with 
dark green foliage. Leaves very finely curled 
on the edges. Plant medium sized. Pkt. 5c; White English. Light-green variety; tender leaves, 
oz. 15c; U lb. 25c; lb. 90c. Seed light yellow. Oz.5c; HVa. 10c; lb. 30c. 
OKRA, OR GUMBO 
The long, tender pods of okra are very delicious when sliced and cooked in soups. While this is its chief use, 
it is also boiled and served like other classes of vegetables. The tall sorts should be planted in hills about a foot 
apart; using about one ounce to 100 hills. The dwarf sorts may be planted in hills or in rows about three feet 
apart. Plant in any good soil about April 1st. The pods should be gathered when very young, as they are 
then very tender. 
PFRKINS MAMMOTH T ONG White Velvet. A medium-sized variety, bearing 
rcrvivmo M/\1V11V1V7 1 n LUrNVi longi sm0 otri, white pods, which are very tender. 
Pf")r\ A dwarf-growing, very early and prolific Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; \i lb. 20c; lb. 60c. 
* \J\J variety. Pods are long, slender, deep DWARF GREEN. An early, dwarf, and prolific 
green and of fine quality. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; % variety with thick, green pods. Pkt. 5c; oz. 
lb. 20c; lb. 60c. 10c; M lb. 20c; lb. 60c. 
Okra— Long Pod 
