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NORTH rivals SOUTH with COLE’S EARLY 
PRODUCES LUSCIOUS MELONS 
WHERE NONE GREW BEFORE 
SUREST IN CROP PRODUCTION 
QUALITY EQUAL TO THE BEST 
This is the easiest to grow of all the Watermelons. If you have 
failed with other sorts you can succeed with Cole’s Early. It is 
the best variety for the family garden, primarily so on account of 
its extreme earliness, but mainly because it has all the qualities 
necessary to a perfect variety for this purpose. Its remarkably 
early character entirely removes the most common hindrance to 
its cultivation. As far north as Canada and in places where 
Watermelons never grew’ before, Cole’s Early is now supplying 
the tables of those, who grow’ it, just as bountifully and with just as 
good Melons as in tfie sunny regions of the South. 
It is good in every respect, producing a liberal crop of Melons 
twelve; inches long and nine inches in diameter, not large, but in 
abundance and of delicious quality. The deep red, fine grained 
flesh ripens from heart to rind, while its rich color and luscious 
flavor are tempting to the most exacting and critical taste. {See 
engraving.) Price, 10c. pkt., 25c. oz., 7oc. *4 lb., $2.50 lb. 
“7 planted a package of your Cole's Early Watermelon seed last year 
and I raised about 15 of them. I got some big ones and the quality of all of 
them was fine. Everbody in town had a small piece.” 
MAX CLINTON SNOW. So. Roy Alston, Mass. 
“ Cole's Early Watermelons were of the best quality and also very productive." 
V. M. BROWN, East Moravia, Pa. 
Henderson’s SUPERIOR MUSHROOM SPAWN 
The white thread-like substance seen perineating the brick or tablet in which Mushroom Spawn is sold is called Mycelium. The edible part of the Mushroom 
is analogous to the flower in other plants. The spawn as sold is in a dormant condition, growth being suspended by withholding moisture. The task for the 
grower is to cause it to revive and resume growth. This is accomplished by placing the spawn in prepared beds of fresh horse manure and soil, which may be 
made in a shed, cellar, or under greenhouse benches. Next to proper preparation the most important thing is to maintain a uniform and moist air temperature 
of 50 to GO degrees. Full directions given in pamphlet, free if asked for. 
American Culture Mushroom Spawn 
Recent discover*^ in the production of Mushroom Spawn have 
enabled us to offer cultures taken only from selected specimens, 
thus extending the work of selection to this delicious vegetable. 
It is now r possible to reproduce Mushrooms showing superiority 
in size, color and shape. The value of such selection is already 
apparent, for we are now able to offer a pure culture spawn that 
will produce Mushrooms, uniform in shape, even in size, and of a 
constant creamy-white color. American Pure Culture Spawn 
is sold in flat bricks about 1^ inches thick, weighing about 
IM pounds. One brick may be broken into nine pieces, which, 
set 12 inches apart, will spawn an area of 9 square feet. {See 
engraving.) Price per brick, 30c.; 10 bricks, $2.75; 100 
bricks, $25.00. Purchaser paying carriage. 
“7 have used 24 pounds of your Pure Culture Mushroom Spawn, 
and have been very successful—extra good results.” 
R. E. FLOOD, Orange, N-. J. 
“7 bought some Mushroom Spawn, American Pure Culture, from 
you last year and although it was my first attempt I had great success 
with it, raising over two pounds to a foot of space.” 
J. R. HALSTEAD, New Brunswick, N. J. 
"The American Pure Culture Mushroom recently purchased fron 
you has started to show buttons all over the bed. It looks as if I afif 
going to have as good luck with Mushrooms by using your Spawn as I 
have by using your seeds for the garden.” 
II. BARTHOLOMEW, Rockefeller, III / 
Last year I purchased a small amount of your good Spawn, American 
Pure Culture, and had splendid luck with it. On 88 square feet I 
raised 125 pounds of fine Mushrooms which were of splendid flavor and 
color. My success has inspired me to try again on a Larger scale.” 
Mrs. C. B. RUSSELL, Paterson, N. J. 
English Mushroom Spawn 
This is the kind that has been in constant use for years and is 
still preferred by many. In order to insure its freshness w’e make 
frequent importations, and we can confidently recommend our stock. 
Use in same quantity as “American Pure Culture” described adjoin¬ 
ing. Price per brick, 25c.; 10 bricks, $2.25; 100 bricks, $20.00. 
Purchaser paying carriage. 
“Some time ago I bougnt several pounds of Mushroom Spawn from you, 
which I planted in beds of 150 square feet. Now I gather daily the best 'and 
largest Mushrooms 1 have ever seen. They are perfect in appearance and fine 
in taste.”. EWALD II. KRAFT, 
44 Hancock St., Little Falls, N . F. 
Okra or Gumbo 
A most popular Southern vegetable. It is quite easy to 
grow', and it succeeds just as well in the North. The pods 
g™n^ung T a P^ tenc ^ er are s ^ ce d a nd used in soups and stew r s. 
WHITE VELVET HENDERSON’S. The best of the Okras, 
long, smooth, greenish-white pods, extremely tender, and 
very prolific. Price, 5c. pkt., 15c. oz., 50c. *4 lb., $1.50 lb. 
“7 purchased* American Pure Culture Mushroom Spawn from you on 
March 1$U and picked‘ tktifMushrooms in the above photo on May 24 th. 
I had some that weighed dver hi lb. each. Yesterday , the 5th of June, I 
picked a mess, and there are. fully 100 buttons on the bed now. All this 
from a bed in the cellar, size 2x8 feel. 
J. A. COOK, Marshalltown, Iowa. 
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