Mushroom Spawn 
Blanc de Champignon. 
Cbampignonbrut. 
Seta. 
MDSHSOOMS. 
One of the most profitable crops for the outlay 
that can be grown; the market is sure, because the 
supply lever equals the demand. Mushrooms can be 
grown m any dark room or cellar where the temper- 
ature can be kept at from 50 to 70 degrees. From 
some old pasture procure good rich soil and store It 
away. To every bushel of this soil add two bushels 
of fresh horse manure. Of this well-mixed compound 
prepare a bed, say four feet wide. Put down a thin 
layer and pound it down hard, and go on until you 
have a bed 12 to 18 inches thick. It soon becomes 
pretty hot, but let the heat recede until it is only 85 or 
90 degrees. Then make holes, say a foot apart, and 
put in the spawn, two or three pieces as large as a 
walnut in each hole. Cover the holes and press the 
soil solid and smooth. Let the bed remain in this 
condition about twelve days; then cover the bed with 
two inches of fresh loam; and over this place four or 
five inches of hay or straw, and the work is done. If 
the temperature is right, in six or eight weeks you 
may expect mushrooms. The beds will continue 
bearing from twenty to thirty days. After 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 
One 
Uur spawn can be depended on and being specially manufactured for us is fresh and reliable, 
pound of spawn is sufficient for a bed two by six feet. 
If interested in this crop an excellent book to have is "riushrooin Culture," by W Robinso 
which will be sent free by mail for 50 cents. 
English Spawn. Per lb 
French Spawn. 
by mail, 30c; 7 lbs., per express, not paid, $1.00. 
Per lb., by mail, 50c; three-pound box, per express, not paid, |i-25. 
Mustard 
Moularde. 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 fcPos Jo ^5 
Chinese. Leaves twice the size of the ordinary; sweet and pungent 10 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 75 
White or Yellow. Of very rapid growth and agreeable flavor 5 25 
Okra, or Gombo 
Gombaud. Safran. 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 stocks to support them. The pods should be 
gathered while young and tender. 
Dwarf Density. Best for general crop; tender long Oz. Lb. 
pods |o 15 |i 25 
White Velvet. Handsome and productive; long 
smooth white pods 10 75 
WHITE VELVET OKRA. 
All seeds can be had In 5-cent paclcets except where noted. 
