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Cuban Queen. The largest 
and one of the best grown; an 
excellent keeper, skin beauti- 
fully striped dark and light 
green. The flesh is led, solid, 
delicate in flavor and very 
sweet; bears transit well. 
Orange. Flesh red, tender 
and sweet, separating from the 
rind like an orange. Cuban Queen. 
Mammoth Ironclad- A variety of undoubted ex- 
cellence, of large size and weight, crops of it aver- 
aging nearly 50 pounds each. The flesh is deep 
red and of a delicious rich flavor, holding its fine 
qualities very close to the skin. In outside ap- 
pearance it is somewhat like the Gypsy. For ship- 
ping and keeping qualities the Ironclad is unsur- 
passed. The vines are strong growing, and alto- 
gether it is a most valuable acquisition. See Spec- 
ialties. 
Kolb Gem- This variety originated in Alabama 
three years ago, has proven to be a very valuable • 
acquisition. It is uniformly round and grows to 
a good size, often attaining a weight of twenty-five 
or fifty pounds; the flesh is a bright red and flavor 
excellent, rind dark green, striped and very tough. 
It is unsurpassed as a shipping melon, retaining 
its freshness and sweetness for a long time after 
ripening. It is unusually productive and will ma- 
ture as far north as Chicago. See Specialties. 
Imperial Lodi. This is now the most popular 
of all the California grown varieties. Large, ob- 
long, skin light pea-green in color, and thin. Eed 
flesh, very sweet and fine in flavor, and one of the 
very best for cultivation for market sales. 
Seminole See Specialties. 
Hungarian Honey- See Specialties. 
Mushrooms. 
The Mushroom is an edi- 
ble fungus, of a white color, 
changing to brown when old. 
The gills are loose, of a pink- 
ish red. changing to liver 
color. It produces no seed, 
but instead, a white, fibrous 
substance in broken threads, 
called spawn, which is pre- 
served in horse manure, being 
pressed in the turiii of bricks. Thus prepared it 
will retain its vitality for years. 
Culture. Mushrooms can be grown in the cel- 
ler, in sheds, or in hot bedsin open air, on shelves, 
or out-of-the-way places. Fermenting horse 
manure, at a temperature of about 70 degrees, is 
made into beds the size required, eighteen inches 
deep. In this bed plant the broken pieces of spawn 
six inches apart, covering the whole with two 
inches of light soil, and protect from cold and 
severe rains. The mushrooms will appear in about 
six weeks. Water sparingly and with lukewarm 
water. 
Mustard. 
Makes a pungent salad. Sow thickly in rows 
and cut for use when two inches high. White Lon- 
don is the best for salads. The Brown or Black, is, 
however, more pungent. 
Nasturtium. 
The seeds, while young and succulent, are 
pickled for capers. The plants are quite ornamen- 
tal and make excellent screens in the garden. 
Okra, or Gumbo. 
This vegeatable Is grown for its pods which are 
used in soups, stews, etc. It is very nutritious 
and of easy culture. Sow when the ground has be- 
come warm, three feet apart and one inch deep, and 
thin out to ten inches in the row. The pods are 
dried for winter use. 
N ew Improved Dwarf. This new early variety, 
has long, green, slender pods, very productive, and 
grows fourteen inches high. 
Long Green- Long ribbed erect pods, sharply 
tapering to a point; very productive. 
Onion. 
The value of this crop depends almost solely on 
the quality of the seed sown. Kealizing this, we 
have taken the greatest care in selecting our stocks, 
and can confidently recommend them to all our 
customers, those who use large quantities, as well 
as those who use small, as being unsurpassed for 
quality, germination and trueness; being grown for 
us solely by men of years of experience in raising 
this important seed. Our seed will produce full- 
sized Onions the first year of sowing, for which 
purpose sow four to five lbs. per acre. For growing 
small sets our seed is equally good, and should be 
sown for this purpose at the rate of about 60 lbs. to 
the acre. 
Extra Early Red- A medium sized, flat variety; 
an abundant producer, and very uniform in shape 
and size; moderately strong flavored, and comes in- 
to use nearly two weeks earlier than the Large Eed 
Wethersfield; very desirable for early market use. 
Early Red Globe- A comparatively new vari- 
ety, maturing as early as the flat sort. It is globe 
shaped; skin deep red; flesh mild and tender. Very 
handsome in appearance. 
Large Red Wethersfield- This is a standard 
variety. Large size; skin deep purplish red; form 
round, somewhat flattened; flesh purplish white; 
moderately fine grained, and stronger flavored than 
auy of the other kinds. Very productive, the best 
keeper, and one of the most popular for general 
cultivation. 
Yellow Danvers- A fine variety of medium size, 
globular in form; skin yellowish brown; flesh 
white, comparatively mild and well flavored, and 
very productive; requires rich soil and good culti- 
vation to produce heavy crops. By careful selec- 
tion we have improved the original shape of this 
variety, so that many seedsmen catalogue it as 
Yellow Globe Danvers. 
White Globe Yields abundantly, producing 
handsome and uniformly globe shaped bulbs. The 
flesh is firm, fine grained, and of mild flavor. Some- 
times called Southport White Globe. 
Yellow Strasburg (Yellow Dutch). Later, flat- 
ter and larger than Yellow Danvers; good keeper. 
Giant Rocca. An immense 
onion. Globular in form; skin 
light brown ; flesh mild and 
tender. It will produce a large 
onion from seed the first season, 
but to attain the largest growth, 
the smallest bulbs should be set 
out the next spring, when they 
will continue increasing in size, 
instead of producing seed. 
Giant White Italian Tripoli. 
A large, beautiful, pure white. Giant Eocca. 
