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Condon Bros., Seedsmen, Rock River Valley Seed Farm, Rockford, Illinois. 
Specialties for 
Mustard 
477 Southern 
Giant Curled 
Everybody's Gardens 
Southern Giant Curled Mustard 
It is highly esteemed in the South, where the seed is sown 
in the fall and plants used early in spring as a salad. Seeds 
brown. Plants are 2 feet high; enormous bunches. Packet, 5 
et.s.; ounce, 10 et.s.j % Ih., 18 cts.} % Ib., 30 cts.; Ib., 55 cts.f 
2 lbs., $1.00, postpaid. 
Chinese Mustard 
A giant curled variety with leaves double the size of th^ 
ordinary. Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 10 ct.s,; % lb., 18 cts.; % lb.» 
30 cts.; lb., 55 cts.; 2 lbs., $1.00, postpaid. 
478 White Seeded English Mustard 
The leaves are light green, mild and tender when young; 
seed light yellow; used for flavoring, in pickles, etc. Packet, 
5 cts.; ounce, 10 cts.; % lb., 18 cts.; % lb., 30 cts.; lb., 55 cts.; 
2 lbs., $1.00, postpaid. 
475Vz Japanese Mustard-Spinach 
Also Called Tendergreens 
Oriental origin. Remains tender in dry weather. Virtually 
an all season plant. Withstands extreme summer heat, also 
resistant to cold weather. The large, oblong leaves are dark 
green in color with a very small center rib. The leaves are 
cooked and prepared for table the same as spinach and turnip 
or mustard greens. Packet, 5 cts.; o*., 10 cts.; % Ib., 2.5 cts.; Vz 
lb., 40 cts.; Ib., 75 ct.s.; 2 lbs., $1.40, postpaid. 
Condon’s Sure-Crop Mushroom Spawn 
One pound will spawn about 10 feet square 
Mushroom beds may be made in a warm, dry cellar, oP in 
any building where the frost does not penetrate, and in the 
open air during the summer and fall months. Having procured 
the spawn, the next thing to be attended to is to make prep¬ 
arations for the beds. About a fortnight or three weeks before 
the beds are to be made collect a quantity of fresh horse 
manure without the straw; place it in a heap under cover, and 
as it heats keep turning it over once or twice a week, until the 
fiery heat has become exhausted, which will require from ten 
to fourteen days’ time. When the manure is in a condition to 
be made up, lay out your bed according to your requirements, 
say three feet wide, ten feet long, and from two to three feet 
deep; beat it well down with the back of the spade as the process 
of building goes on. When the bed has been made some time, 
say a week or thereabouts, and the heat sufficiently declined 
to a temperature of 65 or 75 degrees, the spawn may be put into 
it. Break the spawn in pieces two inches square, and put them 
six inches apart all over the bed, then cover the bed with two 
inches of rich soil. When the soil looks dry, give a gentle 
watering with tepid water, using a hose or watering-pot. Best 
AMERICAN GROWN SURE CROP SPAWN. Brick, 35 cts.; 3 
bricks, $1.00; 5 bricks, $1.50; 10 bricks, $2.75, postpaid. 
KOHL RABI 
411 Early White 
410 Early Purple Vienna Vienna 
A very fine vegetable. Sweeter and of finer 
fiavor than Turnips and cooked same way. Sow 
seed in spring and again in June or July. 
411 Early White Vienna 
The bulbs grow to the size of an apple when 
ready for use, and are of a pale whitish green; 
they are of delicate, cabbage-like flavor. Packet, 
10 cts.; ounce, 20 cts.; % lb., 6.5 cts.; Va Ib., $1.10; 
lb., $2.00; 2 lbs., .$.‘(.80, postpaid. 
410 Early Purple Vienna 
This is not quite so early as the preceding and 
slightly larger in size. It differs also in having 
skin of a dark, glossy, purplish red. Packet, 10 
cts.; ounce, 20 cts.; % lb., 60 cts.; lb., ,$1.10; 
lb., .$2.00; 2 Ib.s., $3.80, postpaid. 
470 Sure Crop Mushrooms 
OKRA 
Extra nice for soups, 
stews, etc., and much 
liked when pickled. 
Plant in hills, 2 feet 
apart each way. 1 oz. of 
seed will sow a row 100 
ft. long. 
White Velvet 
Distinct in appear¬ 
ance; the large pods are 
perfectly round, smooth, 
an attractive velvety 
white, of superior flavor 
and tenderness. Plant 
dwarf, of compact, 
branching growth. Very 
prolific. Packet, 5 cts.; 
ounce, 10 cts.; % lb., 20 
cts.; Yz Ib., 35 cts,; Ib., 60 
cts.; 2 lbs., $1.10, post- 
Iinid. 
480 Perkins Mammoth 
Long Pod 
480 Perkin’s Mammoth Long Pod 
Plants are of compact growth, with many close joints. 
At each leaf joint develop handsome, smooth white pod's 
which average 6 inches long by 1 inch in diameter. 
They are exceptionally fleshy and tender. Pxicket, .5 cts.; 
ounce, 10 cts.; % lb., 20 cts.; % lb., 35 cts.; Ib., 60 cts.; 
2 lbs., .$1,10, postpaid. 
1 OZ. of Kohl Ea'bi Seed will sow a row 100 feet long. 
