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KENDALL AND WHITNEY'S 
MELON—Water. 
Plant in hills eight feet apart, and cultivate same as Musk Melon. One ounce for thirty hills; 
four to five pounds to an acre. 
Per Pkt. Oz. J lb. Lb. 
Mountain Sweet. An old and reliable sort; red flesh.05 .10 .20 .60 
Black Spanish. Fruit of large size, almost round, skin dark green; flesh red. .05 .10 .20 .60 
Phinney’s Early. Productive, early and finely flavored; red flesh. ...05 .10 .20 .60 
Scaly Bark. The flesh is light crimson in color, very tender and fine flavor.. .05 .10 .20 .60 
Citron. The standard variety for preserves.05 .10 .20 .60 
MUSHROOM SPAWN. 
Mushrooms can be grown in the cellar, shed, or any dark room under a 
temperature of 50 to 60 degrees. If practicable divide your place in narrow 
beds three to five feet wide, prepare your ground by thoroughly mixing one 
part of common garden soil with two parts of fresh horse manure, free from 
straw or litter. This well mixed compound should be filled in your beds 12 
to 15 inches deep and pounded down as much as possible. Fermentation 
will set in at once and after the temperature of your soil has declined to 
about 85 or 90 degrees, the bed is ready for spawning, 
the first in the preparation of manure is one of the most essential points, then 
its condition when made into a bed, respecting the temperature at the time of planting the spawn. 
Make holes in your bed about ten inches apart, each to hold two or three pieces of spawn about the 
size of a walnut, then cover the same with two inches of light soil, pressing it solid all over the bed. 
In order to hold an even moisture in the soil protect your beds with three to four inches of straw, 
and if the surface should become a little dry, moisten this protecting straw carefully with luke 
warm water. If the temperature is right mushrooms will begin to come up in about six to eight 
weeks, and the bed will continue bearing for about a month. 
English Spawn. In bricks, per lb., 15 cts.; 8 lbs^, $1.00. 
By mail, add 10 cents per pound for postage. 
nUSHROOM. 
Attention from 
MUSTARD. 
A pungent salad used with Cress. The seed is used for flavoring pickles, etc. Sow in May 
thickly in rows and cut when two or three inches high. 
One ounce to forty feet of drill. 
Per Oz. 1 lb. Lb. 
White London. Best for salad.05 .10 .25 
Brown or Black ...05 .10 .25 
OKRA. 
Sow late in the spring, after the ground has become warm, in drills three feet apart, where the 
plants are to remain. Thin out from nine to twelve inches. They should be well manured. They 
may also be raised in pots, or in a hot bed, and transplanted. 
Per Pkt. Oz. Jl-b. Lb. 
Improved Dwarf Green. Small, green and round smooth pods. 05 .10 .20 .50 
ONION. 
No vegetable is more extensively known and cultivated than 
the Onion. A good crop is impossible unless the soil is very 
rich and kept clean. Use well-rotted manure freely, and get 
the crop in as soon as possible in spring, no matter if the weather 
is cold and unpleasant. Sow in drills one foot apart and cover 
about one-third of an inch, treading or rolling after sowing, so 
that the hot, dry atmosphere may not dry up and destroy the 
sprouting seed. 
One ounce to one hundred feet of drill ; fivepoundsto the acre. 
_ _ Per Pkt. Oz. Jib. Lb. 
Large Red W ethersfield. Large size, 
productive and a good keeper.05 .15 .30 $1.00 
Extra Early Red. Ten days earlier than 
the Wethersfield, of medium size and 
deep rich color ; an abundant pro¬ 
ducer, and, of good form and flavor, 
keeping well.. .05 .15 .30 1.00 
YELLOW GLOBEj.DANVERS ONION. 
