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Eariy Watermelon 
NORTH rivals SOUTH with COLE’S EARLY 
PRODUCES LUSCIOUS MELONS 
WHERE NONE GREW BEFORE 
SUREST IN CROP PRODUCTION 
QUALITY EQUAL TO THE REST 
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 the 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., 15c. oz., 35c. 34 lb., $1.00 lb. 
“/ 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 oj all of 
them leas fine. Everbody in town had a small piece." 
MAX CL1NTON SNOW, So. Royal.ston, 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 permeating 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 dormanl 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 60 degrees. Full directions given in pamphlet, free if asked for. 
American Culture Mushroom Spawn 
Recent discoveries 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 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 134 inches thick, weighing about 
a pound. One brick may be broken into nine pieces, which, 
set 12 inches apart, will spawn an area of 0 square feet. (See 
engraving.) Price, 20c. lb., 10 lbs. for $1.75, 100 lbs. for 
$14.00. Purchaser paying carriage. 
French Virgin Mushroom Spawn 
Produced by sowing the spores of the best specimens in a 
laboratory in France under scientific conditions which provide 
immunity from disease and thus insure greater vigor. We 
have found it easy to produce Mushrooms from this spawn. 
They are large, white, and extremely fleshy. The .spawn is 
sold in tablets, four being required to spawn an area of nine 
square feet. Special directions for its use are enclosed with 
every shipment. Price, 20c. each, $2.00 per doz., $12.00 per 
100. Delivered in the U. S. 
‘‘7 have grown a few Mushrooms in my cellar for several years, and 
1 want to say that your Virgin Spawn produced the finest looking a)id 
best flavored crop 1 have had." 
CHARLES W. BOWMAN, Brownsville, Pa. 
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 
when young and tender are sliced and used in soups and stews. 
WHITE VELVET, HENDERSON’S. The best of the Okras, 
long, smooth, greenish-white pods, extremely tender, and 
very prolific. Price, 5c. pkt., 10c. oz., 30c. 34 lb., $1.00 lb. 
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 we make 
frequent importations, and we can confidently recommend our stock. 
Use in same quantity as “American Pure Culture” described adjoin¬ 
ing. Price, 20c. lb., 10 lbs. for bl.75, 100 lbs. for $14.00. Purchaser 
paying carriage. 
“Some time ago 1 bought several pounds of Mushroom Spawn from you, 
which 1 planted in beds oj 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." EWALT) II. KRAFT, 
44 Hancock St., Little Falls, N. Y, 
‘I purchased American Pure Culture Mushroom Spawn from you on 
March D/, and picked the Mushrooms in the above photo on May 2 4th. 
I had some that weighed over 34 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 feet. 
J. A. COOK, Marshalltown. Iowa. 
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