W. E, Strong Company, Sacramento, Cal. 
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Mushroom Spawn. 
CuLTUEE. Mushrooms can be grown in the cel- 
lar, in sheds, or in hot-beds in 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- 
on 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 vegetable 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 become warm, three feet apart and one inch deep, 
and thin out to ten inches in the row. The pods are dried for winter use. 
New 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. Healizing 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 th acre. 
pressed in the form 
will retain its vitality for years 
The Mushroom is an edible 
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 manijre, being 
of bricks. Thus prepared it 
Early Red 
Globe. A com- 
paratively new 
variety, matur- 
ing as early as 
the flat sort. It 
is globe shaped; 
skin deep red; 
flesh mild and 
tender. Very 
handsome in ap- 
pearance. 
Giant Rocca. An immense 
onion. Gobular in form; skin 
tender. It will produce a large 
onion from seed the first season, 
but to attain the largest growth, ; 
the smallest bulbs should be sett 
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 Rocca. 
flat onion of mild excellent flavor, and will pro- 
duce a somewhat larger onion from seed than the 
\Vhite Portugal. 
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 Red 
Wethersfield; very desirable for early market use. 
Large Red Wethersfield. 
Large Red Wethersfle’d. 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 
any of the other kinds. Very productive, the best 
keeper, and one of the most popular for general 
Yellow Strasburg. (Yellow Duteh.) Later, 
flatter and larger than Yellow Danvers; good 
keeper. 
