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Musk Melon, Montreal Nutmeg. This variety 
has been grown by the market gardeners of 
Montreal for a number of years. The fruit is 
of the largest size, often attaining a weight of 
fifteen to twenty pounds ; shape nearly round, 
flattened at the ends, deeply ribbed ; flesh re¬ 
markably thick, green, melting, and of the finest 
flavor; per lb. $2.00; oz. 20 cents, . 10 
White Japanese, deliciously and delicately 
sweet, flesh thick, very pale green, skin creamy 
white and very thin ; per lb. <1.00; oz. 10 cents, 5 
Surprise, a variety of recent introduction, hav¬ 
ing a thin, cream-colored skin and salmon- 
colored flesh; it is early, productive, and of 
good flavor; per lb. $1.50; oz. 15 cents, ... 5 
SURPRISE MUSK MELON. 
Casaba, or Persian, oblong, and very large, 
fine flavor, yellowish green flesh and netted 
skin ; per lb. $1.00; per oz. 10 cents,. 5 
Pineapple, dark green, oval, netted, flesh thick, 
sweet and juicy ; per lb. $1.00 ; oz. 10 cents, . . 5 
WATER MELONS. 
vice’s early water melon. 
Vick’s Early. Long, smooth, rather small, flesh 
bright pink, solid, sweet, and the earliest Melon 
we are acquainted with ; lb. $1.50 ; oz. 15 cents, 5 
Mountain Sweet, dark green, flesh red, sweet 
and rich, early and hardy ; lb. 80 cts. ; oz. 10 cts. 5 
Mountain Sprout, long, striped ; scarlet flesh, 
one of the best, but not quite as early as Moun¬ 
tain Sweet; per lb. $1.00; per oz. 10 cents, . . 5 
Phinney’s Early, a valuable market variety; 
early and productive: flesh red, of excellent 
quality; 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. 80 cents ; per oz. 10 cents,. 5 
Cuban Queen, size large ; skin striped: rind 
rather thick ; flesh bright red, very solid, crisp, 
and of delicious flavor ; per lb. $1.00 ; oz. 10 cts. 5 
Black Spanish, an old variety and one 
of the richest; round, rather small, dark green; 
red flesh, sweet and rich ; per lb. 1.00 ; oz., 10c., 5 
Georgia Rattlesnake, or Striped Gipsy. 
'1'his is the melon shipped in such large quanti¬ 
ties from the South to all our Northern markets. 
Fruit very large, oblong ; skin striped with light 
and dark green ; flesh red, of fine quality : per 
lb. $1.00; oz. 10 cents,. 5 
Water Melon, Orange. The flesh separates easily 
from the rind, fair quality ; lb. $1.50 ; oz. 15 cts. 5 
Citron, for preserves ; per lb. £1 .50 ; oz. 15 cents, 10 
MUSHROOMS. 
Mushrooms can be grown in arty dark room or cellar, 
where the temperature can be maintained at from 50 to 
60 degrees. From some old pasture procure the soil, 
and store it away. To one bushel of this soil add two 
bushels of fresh horse manure. Of this well-mixed com¬ 
pound prepare 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 degrees. Then make holes, say a foot apart, and 
put in the spawn, two or three pieces as large as a wal¬ 
nut 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 whole bed with some 
two inches of fresh loam, and over this place four or 
five inches of hay or straw, and the work is done. If 
the temperature is right, in six to eight weeks you may 
expect Mushrooms. The bed will continue bearing 
from twenty to thirty Jays. 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 temperature, moisture, and perhaps 
other conditions of the atmosphere, that success is not 
aiways certain with the amateur. One pound of spawn is 
enough for a bed two feet by six. 
Mushroom Spawn, per lb., by mail,. 4 ° 
Per 6 lbs., by express, not paid, .. 1 00 
MUSTARD. 
Mustard being very 
hardy, seed can be sown 
as soon as the soil is free 
from frost. Sow in shallow 
drills, and cut when a few 
inches in height. It grows 
rapidly, an'd several sow¬ 
ings may be made. The 
young Mustard leaves are used for spring salad. 
Mustard, White, best for salad or culinary pur¬ 
poses ; per lb. 5° cents : per oz. 10 cents, ... 5 
lack, this is the kind usually used for commer¬ 
cial Mustard, being stronger than the White; 
per lb. 50 cents ; per oz., 10 cents . 5 
