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A Botanical Curiosity 
The Resurection Plant or Bird's Nest Moss. In a dry state this plant resembles a ball of apparently 
dry and lifeless moss, which upon immersing the roots in cold rain water, or placed in a wine glass filled with 
water, will in a few hours be transformed into a beautiful green moss fern. The experiment can be repeated 
many times. 
Price by Mall postage prepaid, 10 cents each ; $1.00 per dozen 
Mushroom Spawn 
Culture— Mushrooms may be grown in cellars, under benches of greenhouses or in sheds, wherever a uni- 
form temperature of 50 degrees can be maintained. The beds should be made according to the time the Mush- 
rooms are wanted, and it requires about two months for them to begin bearing. Secure fresh horse-dung, free 
from straw and litter, and mix in an equal bulk of loam from an old pasture 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 proper proportions for a bed ; 
but these may be varied. Prepare the mixture of loam and manure, making the bed in layers, and pounding 
down eacli with the back of the spade. Leave this to heat through for a few days, and as soon as the heat sub- 
sides to 90 degrees, make holes in the bed about a foot apart each way, into which put pieces of the spawn two 
to 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 thoroughly depended on and being specially 
manufactured for us is fresh and reliable at all times. 
English Spawn. In bricks weighing li lb. each $ 0.20 $18.00 
French Spawn. In 3-lb boxes, per box, $1.50; In bulk 50 
Garden Roots 
Artichoke. Green Globe, 2 year old roots; each, 
15 cts; doz., $1.50. 
Asparagus. Conover's Colossal, 2 year old roots; 
per 1000, $10; per 100, $2. 
Palmetto (new), 2 year old roots, per 100, $2.25. 
Hop Roots. Per doz., 50 cts. 
Horse Radish. Per doz., 50 cts. 
Rhubarb. Myatt's Linnams, each, 25 cts; doz., $1 .50: 
per hundred, $12. 
Lorenzo, each, 50 cts; doz., $3.00. 
Fertilizers 
We supply only high grade reliable fertilizers, goods that we know to be as represented; and, quality con- 
sidered, prices are unusually low. 
Per 100 lbs. Per ton 
Ground Bone $ 2 50 $35 00 
Pure Guano Flour.— Guaranteed to contain 4S to 50 per cent bone phosphate (the same as pure 
bone-meal) and li per cent, ammonia 2 25 30 00 
Plain Superphosphate—Or dissolved guano (guano treated with sulphuric acid) containing 
about 16 per cent, available phosphoric acid and 1 per cent, ammonia 2 50 40 00 
Lawn Fertilizer. — Unless thoroughly decomposed, stable-manure is not desirable, because of the number 
of weed-seeds contained in it. Our Lawn Fertilizer possesses the requisite properties to induce a rapid, 
luxuriant growth, and should be sown broadcast at the rate of 1,500 pounds per acre. A 10-pound package is 
sufficient for 300 square feet. 
Price per ton, $45.00; per 10-lb package, 75 cents. 
Bowker's Flower Food 
Is an odorless, chemical preparation, containing the same fertilizing elements as stable manure, in a per- 
fectly clean and soluble form. It is not a stimulant, but a perfect food for the plants, in a concentrated, easily 
assimilable form. It produces healthy foliage, abundant, rich and bright-colored blossoms, and prolongs the 
period of blossoming; and a pinch added to a vase of cut flowers will preserve their beauty and fragrance for 
at least forty-eight hours longer than if none were us-ed. Full directions for using are in each package. 
Package by mail, Postpaid, 50 cents. 
