LONDON BROS. SEEDSMEN ^l^S^mV^J^'-^Xmi^m 
Mustard, Mushrooms, Kohl-Rabi & Okra 
CONDON'S SURE-CROP MUSHROOM SPAWN 
One pound will spawn about 10 feet square 
Mushroom beds may be made in a warm, dry cellar, or in any build- 
ing where the frost does not penetrate, and in the open air during 
the summer and fall months. Having procured the spawn, the next 
thing to be attended to is to make preparations for the beds. About a 
fortnight or three weeks before the beds are to be made collect a 
quantity of fresh horse manure without the straw; place it in a heap 
under cover, and as it heats keep turning it over once or twice a week, 
until the fiery heat has become exhausted, which will require from ten 
to fourteen days' time. When the manure is in a condition to be made 
up, lay out your bed according to your requirements, say three feet 
wide, ten feet long, and from two to three feet deep; beat it well down 
with the back of the spade as the process of building goes on. When 
the bed has been made some time, say a week or thereabouts, and the 
heat suflSciently declined to a temperature of 65 or 75 degrees, the spawn 
may be put into it. Break the spawn in pieces two inches square, and 
put them six inches apart all over the bed, then cover the bed with two 
inches of rich soil. When the soil looks dry, give a gentle watering with 
tepid water, using a hose or watering-pot. Best ENO-IiISH GBOWIT 
SURE CROP SPAWN. Brick, about IV^' potuidB, 35 cents; 3 lirlcks, 
about iYz pounds, $1.00. Postpaid. 
MUSTARD 
Used as a condiment; the green 
leaves are used as a salad, or cut and 
boiled like Spinach. Cultivated same 
as Curled Cress or Pepper-Grass. One 
ounce of seed will sow 50 feet of drill. 
SOUTHERN GIANT CURLED 
It is highly esteemed in the South, 
where the seed is sown in the fall 
and plants used early in spring as a 
salad. Seeds brown. Plants are 2 
feet high; enormous bundles. Packet, 
4 cents; ounce, 8 cents; V4 pound, 18 
cents; 14 pound, 32 cents; pound, 60 
cents, postpaid. 
CHINESE 
A giant curled variety with leaves 
uouble the size of the ordinary. 
Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; V4 
pound, 22 cents; pound, 40 cents; 
pound, 75 cents, postpaid. 
WHITE ENGLISH 
Iiady Flngrer Okra 
Leaves are light green, mild and tender when young; seed light yellow in color. Packet, 4 cents; ounce, 8 cents: 
Yi pound, 18 cents; 14 pound, 32 cents; pound, 60 cents, postpaid. 
Early Purple Vienna 
F R F F Condon's 
* 1*. 1-1 Common 
Sense Culture Book and 
Canning Guid e — SEE 
PAGE 7 
KOHL RABI 
A very fine vegetable. 
Sweeter and of finer flavor 
than Turnips and cooked 
same way. Sow seed in 
spring and again in June or 
July. 
EARLY WHITE 
VIENNA 
The bulbs grow to the 
size of an apple when ready 
for use, and are of a pale 
whitish green; they are of 
delicate, cabbage-like flavor. 
Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 20 
cents, V4 pound, 65 cents, 
postpaid, 
EARLY PURPLE 
VIENNA 
This is not quite so early 
as the preceding and slight- 
ly larger in size. It differs 
also in having skin of a 
dark, glossy, purplish red. 
Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 20 
cents; H pound, 66 cents, 
postpaid. 
OKRA OR GUMBO 
SAXIiY WHITE VIENNA 
Extra nice for soups, 
stews, etc., and much 
liked when pickled. 
Plant in hills, 2 feet 
apart each way. 
WHITE VELVET 
Distinct In appear- 
ance; the large pods are 
perfectly round, smooth, 
an attractlvs velvety 
white, of supei'ior fla- 
V o r and tenderness. 
Plant dwarf, of com- 
pact, branchijig growth. 
Very prolific. Packet, 
4 cents; ounce, 6 cents; 
Vt pound, 18 cents; ^ 
pound, 30 cents; i)Ound, 
SO cents, postpaid. 
LADY FINGER 
Plants are of compact growth, with many close Joints. 
At each leaf joint develop handsome, smooth, white pods 
which average 6 inches long by 1 inch in diameter. They 
are exceptionally fleshy and tender. Packet, 4 cents; 
ounce, 6 cents; V4 pound, 18 cents; ^ pound, 30 cent*; 
pound, 50 cents, postpaid. 
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