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Mushroom Spawn 
Blanc de Champignon. Champignonbrui. Sela. 
Mushrooms may be grown in cellars, under benches of greenhouses or in sheds, wherever a uniform temperature 
of fifty degrees can be maintained. Tlie beds should be 
made according to tlie time the Mushrooms are wanted, 
and it requires about two months for them to begin bear- 
ing. Secure fresh horse-dung, free from straw and litter, 
and mix an equal bulk of loam from an old p^ture with 
it. Keep this under cover, taking care to turn it every 
day to prevent heating, until the pile is large enough to 
make a bed of the required size. Three or four feet 
wide, eight inches deep, and any length desired, are the 
proportions for a bed; but these may be varied. Prepare 
the mixture of loam and manure, making the bed in 
layers, and pounding down each with the back of the 
spade. Leave this to heat through for a few days, and as 
soon as the heat subsides to 90 degrees make holes in the 
bed about a foot apart each way, into which put pieces of 
the spawn two or three inches in diameter ; fill up the 
holes with the compost, and at the expiration of a week or 
ten days the spawn will have thoroughly diffused itself 
through the bed. Spread a layer of fresh soil over the 
heap to the depth of two inches, and cover with three or 
four inches of hay, straw or litter. Examine the bed often 
to see that it does not get dry. Take special care however, when water is given, that it be at a temperature of 
about 100 degrees. Fuller instructions on the management of this crop will be found in "Mushroom Culture," 
by W. Robinson, which will be sent free by mail for, fifty cents. 
Our spawn can be depended on and being specially manufactured for us is fresh and reliable. 
Mnshroom Spawn, English. Per lb., by mail, 30 cts.; 7 lbs, per express, not paid, $1.09. 
French. Per lb., by mail, 50 cts.; three-pound box, per express^ not paid, $1.25. 
MUSHROOMS. 
Mustard 
Moutarde. Sen/. Mostaza. 
One ounce will sow a drill fifty feet long. Sow thickly in rows six inches apart, and when about two 
inches high it can be cut and used with cress, forming a pleasing pungent salad. 
Black or Brown. More pungent than the Yellow $0^05 $0 'lO $o'25 
Chinese. Leaves twice the size of the ordinary ; sweet and pungent 10 25 75 
Giant Southern Curled. This variety is highly esteemed in the South, where the seed 
is sown in the fall, and the plants used very early in the spring as a salad. The 
plants grow about two feet high and form enormous bunches 10 25 75 
White or Yellow. Of very rapid growth and agreeable flavor 5 lo 25 
Orka or Qombo 
Qomhaud. Safian, Quimbombo. 
One ounce will plant one hundred hills. Of easy cultivation in any good soil; plant about two inches 
deep in drills two and one-half feet apart. When well established thin to ten and twelve inches apart and 
keep the soil well worked, and occasionally draw a little around the stalks lo support them. The pods should 
be gathered while young and tender. 
Dwarf Density. Best for general crop ; tender long pods Jtf'lS $u 35 fl''25 
White Velyet. Handsome and productive ; long smooth white pods 10 25 75 
