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LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO 
Okra or Gumbo 
Mushroom Spawn 
Mustard 
American, Pure Culture, Spawn. Produced 
by the new grafting process, from selected and 
most prolific varieties, has never failed to run. 
Mushrooms can be grown in cellars, in sheds, 
in hotbeds, and sometimes in the open air, the 
chief essentials being uniform degrees of tem¬ 
perature and moisture. Full culture directions 
for mushroom growing free. Per brick, 35c. 
Southern Giant Curled 
Okra or Gumbo 
Perkins Mammoth Long Pod. 
The pods are produced in great 
abundance and average longer than 
other sorts. Pkt., 10c; 54 lb., 20c. 
Dwarf Green. Grows low but 
stocky and is very productive. 
Pkt., 10c; 54 lb., 20c. 
Long Green. Taller than above, 
pods similar. Pkt., 10c; 54 lb., 20c. 
White Velvet. Produces pods larger 
than any other. Pkt., 10c; 54 lb., 
20c. 
Culture. The pods of this plant are used in 
a great number of ways throughout the South¬ 
ern States, and the plant should be more fre¬ 
quently grown in the North. Plant at corn 
planting time in rich land, sowing the seed 
thickly in two to three-foot drills, and thin¬ 
ning to an eight to twelve-inch stand, accord¬ 
ing to varieties. A generous planting is two 
ounces to one hundred feet and ten pounds to 
the acre. Okra seed may be planted six seeds 
to the hill, two to three feet apart and thin¬ 
ning to two plants to the hill 
SOUTHERN GIANT CURLED. Leaves large and wide, 
bright green and very curly on the edges. Most popular 
variety in the South. Pkt., 10c; 54 lb., 25c. 
Large Smooth Leaf. Leaves large, broad, dark green. 
Pkt., 10c; 54 lb., 25c. 
Chinese Broad Leaf. Plant fairly large, leaves large, 
oblong, medium green and slightly curled. Pkt., 10c; 54 
lb., 25c. 
Florida Broad Leaf. Large upright plant, leaves very large 
and thick, bright green, deeply fringed on the edges. Pkt., 
10c; 54 lb., 25c. 
White London. A quick growing plant which soon runs to 
seed. Used mostly for ground mustard. Pkt., 10c; 54 lb., 25c. 
Culture. Mustard is grown for its seed which is used for flavoring or 
medicinal purposes or grown for its leaf which is used in salad or cooked 
like spinach. Sow mustard as soon as the soil can be worked in spring and 
every three weeks for a succession, or in the South it may be sown in the 
fall for early spring greens. Cover the seed lightly in twelve to eighteen 
inch drills. Cut the leaf when not over four inches high and expect this 
cutting in fifty days from seeding. 
Mustard Spinach 
A tender green Spinach of great merit. A wonderful pro¬ 
ducer and becoming very popular with truckers and farmers 
throughout the South and Southeast. In Japan it takes the 
place of Spinach as it remains tender even in dry weather. It 
is an all season plant, resistant to insects and blight; leaves are 
mostly used when young and by repeated plantings an abund¬ 
ant supply is available throughout the entire season. It is ex¬ 
tremely resistant to cold weather so that early and late plant¬ 
ings are possible. Pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; 54 lb., 30c. 
Mustard Spinach 
