SWEET 
HEASRT 
This melon tv as introduced, in 1894 
It has no equal as a 
shipping melon. 
Vine vigorous and productive, ripening its fruit early. 
Fruit large, oval, very heavy, uniformly mottled light and 
very light green. Rind thin but firm. Flesh bright red, 
firm, solid but very tender, melting and sweet. Fruit 
retains its good quality for a long time after ripening. 
PEERLESS 
One of the best sorts for private gardens 
and for market gardeners who 
deliver direct to consumers. 
Vine moderately vigorous, hardy, productive; fruit med- 
ium sized, oval, finely mottled; rind thin; flesh bright scar- 
let, solid to the center, crisp, tender and of the highest 
flavor. 
Early Irondequoit 
In the Early Irondequoit we offer the earliest water melon 
in cultivation. The shape of fruit is slightly oval with irregu- 
lar stripes, mottled dark and light green. Flesh is tender, 
sweet and excellent flavor ; bright red. 
SWEET HEART WATER MELON 
CITRON 
Grows uniformly round and 
smooth, striped and marbled 
with light green. Flesh white 
and solid; seeds red. It 
should be borne in mind that 
this variety is not used for 
eating in the raw state, but 
for preserves, pickles, etc. 
EARLY IRONDEQUOIT WATER MELON. 
CITRON 
A^T TOT TnAAiyyiC Th e Mushroom is an edible fungus of a white color, changing to brown when old. The gills are loose, of pinkish- 
3y I 1 1 11 1 ^ red, changing to liver color. It produces seed and there is developed a white fibrous substance in broken threads, 
called spawn, which is developed and preserved in horse manure, pressed in the form of bricks. Thus prepared it 
will retain its vitality for years. Mushrooms can be grown in cellars, in sheds, in hot-beds or sometimes in the open air, the great essential being a uniform 
degree of temperature and moisture. Fermenting horse manure, mixed with an equal weight of fresh sod loam, is made into beds the size required and eight 
to twelve inches deep. See to it that the bed is packed firmly and evenly. In the course of a few days the inside temperature of the bed will fall to about 
70° or 75°, then plant the broken pieces of spawn nine inches apart; cover the whole with two inches of light soil and protect from cold and rain. One brick 
will plant eight to ten square feet of bed. Mushrooms appear in about six weeks. Water sparingly with lukewarm water. 
PURE CULTURE MUSHROOM SPAWN. By a newly discovered process of selection and grafting, the spawn is scientifically propagated so that large, 
vigorous and fine flavored mushrooms are reproduced. Earlier, more productive and a marked improvement on the wild spawn, either French or English. 
Brick (about lbs.) postpaid 
MUSTARD 
Mustard is not only used as a condiment but the green leaves are used as a salad or cut and hoiled like Spinach Sow as 
early in the Spring as the ground will permit, in drills about eighteen inches apart, covering one-half inch deep. For succes- 
sion, sow every few weeks until autumn. Water freely. In the south the seed should be sown in autumn and the plants used 
early in the Spring as a salad and for greens. 
WHITE ENGLISH. Leaves comparatively smooth and deeply cut; color medium dark green, 
approaches earlv maturity and soon bolts to seed. 
The plant is upright in growth, inclined to branch as it 
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