JAMES VICK’S SONS, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
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MAMMOTH IRON CLAD. 
Water Melon, Citron, for preserves; flesh white and solid, 
seeds red; per lb., $1.25; oz., 15 cents . 
Water Melon, Kolb’s Gem, a 
Southern variety, and very popu¬ 
lar on account of its large size, im¬ 
mense yield, and good shipping 
qualities; flavor excellent; per lb., 
$1.00; oz., 10 cents . 5 
Florida Favorite. A fine va¬ 
riety, size medium ; shape oblong; 
color of rind, dark and light green 
stripes alternately; flesh bright 
crimson, very crisp and deliciously 
sweet. Ripens earlier than Kolb’s 
Gem. Mammoth Iron Clad, or Rat¬ 
tlesnake ; per lb., $1.00; oz., 10 cts. 5 
Mammoth Iron Clad, so 
named on account of the hardness 
and tenacity of its shell, and its 
immense size. Specimen melons 
have been found to weigh seventy 
pounds. Flesh Ann and of line 
flavor; per lb., $1.00; oz., 10 cents 5 
Ice Cream, or Peerless, is a 
first-class Melon ; flesh pink, sweet 
and melting; white seed; per lb., 
90 cents; oz., 10 cents . 5 
Vick’s Early. Oblong, smooth, 
rather small, flesh bright pink, 
solid, sweet, and the earliest Melon 
that we are acquainted with; j>er 
lb., $1.00; oz., 10 cents. 5 
Jordan’s Gray Monarch. A distinct variety and one of 
the largest oblong ; rind a mottled gray; flesh deep red and de¬ 
licious flavor. Per lb., $1.00; oz., 10 cents; pkt. 
VICK’S EARLY. 
OTHER STANDARD VARIETIES. 
Hungarian Honey. 
Scaly Hark. 
Pliinney’s Early. 
The floss. 
Hlaek Spanish. 
Mountain Sweet. 
Mountain Sprout. 
Green and Gold. 
Pride of Georgia* 
Volga. 
Seminole. 
Cuban Queen. 
Hark Icing. 
Georgia Rattlesnake. 
Orange. 
Colorado Preserving. 
Each, 90 cents per lb.; 10 cents per oz.; 5 cents per packet. 
“ You sunburn'd sickle men , of August weary , 
Come hither from the furrow , and be merry.” 
— Tempest. 
MUSHROOMS. 
Mushrooms can bo grown in any 
dark room or cellar, where the tem¬ 
perature can be maintained at from 
50 to 00 degrees. From some old pas¬ 
tures procure the soil, and store it 
away. To one bushel of this soil add 
two bushels of fresh horse manure. 
Of this well-mixed compound pre¬ 
pare a bed, say four feet in width. 
Put down a thin layer and pound it 
down hard, and go on until you have 
a bed eight inches thick. It will soon 
become pretty hot, but let the heat 
recede until it is only 85 or 90 de¬ 
grees. Then make holes, say a foot 
apart, and put in the spawn, two or 
three pieces as largo as a walnut in 
each hole. Cover the holes and press 
the soil solid and smooth. Let the bed remain in this condition about 
twelve days; then cover the bed with some two inches of fresh loam, and 
over this place four or live inches of hay or straw, and the work is done. 
If the temperature is right, in six or eight weeks you may expect Mush¬ 
rooms. The bed will continue bearing from twenty to thirty days. 
After the first crop is gathered, spread over the bed an inch of fresh soil, 
moisten with warm water, and cover with hay as before. Success in 
Mushroom growing depends so much upon a proper and uniform tem¬ 
VIEW OP A MUSHROOM BED IN OUR CELLAR. 
perature, moisture, and perhaps other conditions of the atmosphere, 
that success is not always certain with the amateur. One pound of 
spawn is enough for a bed two feet by six. 
Mushroom Spawn, English, lb., by mail... 30 
Per 8 lbs., by express, not paid.1 00 
French, per lb., by mail.. ... 50 
Two pound boxes ( see cut), by express, not paid . 75 
Seeds, Plants and Bulbs delivered free except where noted. 
