CATALOGUE OF VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
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Lettuce — Continued. 
Black Seeded Simpson. A superior variety, large, light colored heads 
Boston Curled. Esteemed for its earliness, beauty and good table qualities 
Breck f s Boston Market. A carefully selected strain of White Seeded Tennis Ball. 
Grows very compact, and is a most profitable forcing variety ..... 
Crumpled Leaf. Unusually large, solid, firm heads. The outer leaves are crumpled 
and of a dark green color, extra for shipping ........ 
Defiance, or Heat-resisting. Large and crisp ; withstands summer heat 
Deacon. Large, solid, summer Cabbage variety ........ 
Denver Market. An early head variety. The leaves are blistered like a savoy cabbage, 
forces well ......... .... 
Early Curled Simpson. Early, forms a compact mass of tender leaves of a yellowish- 
green color ............. 
Early Prize Head. Large heads, dark colored, tender and fine ..... 
Grand Rapids Forcing. Large and tender, fine for forcing ..... 
Hanson improved. One of the best outdoor sorts, large, solid, heavy, crisp heads 
HIttinger’s Belmont. Unsurpassed for greenhouse forcing. Heads are larger than 
White Seeded Tennis Ball , and a little later. The strain of seed is local grown and 
highly selected ......... 
Iceberg. Large, solid heads, handsome, tender and crisp 
New York Cabbage. Dark green color, large solid heads . 
Paris White Cos , or Romaine. Very early, requires tying to blanch 
Salamander. One of the best summer cabbage sorts .... 
Sensation. Excellent for forcing or outdoor culture; it does well during the 
months, heads large and solid ....... 
Trianon, Self-Closing Cos. The best cos sort, withstands warm weather 
White Seeded Tennis Ball. Large heads; a leading sort 
Lettuce for Birds .......... 
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Dear Sirs:—Will you please send me by return mail one packet Tennis Ball Lettuce seed? I bought some 
from you in March, and it is the best I ever had. Yours truly, 
Yarmouth, N. S. ' I. M. LOVITT. 
Mushroom. 
German, Champignon. — French, Champignon. — Spanish, Hongo. 
(Our special offers do not apply to Mushroom Spawn.) 
Mushrooms may be grown 
in cellars, out-houses, sheds, 
under greenhouse benches. 
The temperature should range 
between 55 and 60 degrees. 
Use a mixture of equal 
weights , fresh horse droppings 
and loam that has no manure 
in it. Before placing this mix¬ 
ture in the bed turn it over 
every day for a week, so that 
it does not heat violently, and 
be careful to keep it under 
cover, so that it cannot get 
wet. Then begin to make the 
bed by spreading thin layers of 
the mixture, and pound each 
firm, until you have in all a 
Mushrooms. depth of eight to ten inches; 
leave it thus for a few days 
up to 100 degrees or over and then declines to 90 degrees; when this point is 
.reached it is ready for spawning, which is done by making holes three or four inches deep and 12 inches 
apart each way; into each hole put a piece of spawn about as large as a hen’s egg and fill in the hole with compost. 
At the end of 10 or 12 days the spawn will have run through the whole bed. There should then be spread over the 
^entire surface about two inches of fresh loam. Over all place a few inches of straw. All that remains to be done is 
to keep the temperature as near 60 degrees as possible. Ordinarily, if the conditions are right, mushrooms will 
.appear in about six weeks and continue to come for about a month. In the event of the surface of the bed becoming 
very dry sprinkle it freely with water at a temperature of about 100 degrees. After the crop has been taken off the bed, 
it should receive a dressing of fresh loam to a depth of half an inch, thoroughly firmed, over the entire surface, and 
when dry a sprinkling with water as above recommended, and a second crop will soon be had. A brick of English 
spawn is sufficient for nine square feet of bed. 
Mushroom Spawn. Original English Milltrack, superior to all others. Lb. 15c.; 50 lbs. $5.00; 100 lbs. $9.00. 
Mushroom Spawn. Genuine French Virgin. Lb. 50 cts.; 100 lbs. $45.00. 
Mushroom Spawn. American pure culture. Per brick, 25 cts.; per doz., $2.50. 
€t flow to Grow Mushrooms, 9 9 by Faulkner, the most practical work, $1.00. (( Mushroom Culture, "by Robinson, jog. 
See Special Offers on third page of cover. 
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