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MARSHALL'S MATCHLESS SEEDS 
same. 
except 
that 
Pkt. 
Oz. 
Vi Lb. 
$0.05 
$0.10 
$0.25 
.05 
.10 
.30 
.05 
.10 
.25 
.05 
.10 
.25 
.05 
.15 
.40 
.05 
.15 
.35 
.05 
.10 
.25 
.05 
.10 
.25 
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.10 
.25 
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.10 
.25 
.05 
.10 
.25 
.05 
.10 
.25 
MELON, AVATEK. 
One ounce will plant about 30 bills. 
I’lant in bills as directed for Musk Melons, and treat in all respects the 
the hills should be 8 to 10 feet apart. 
Citron. Bound and handsome; for preserving; red seed. 
Cole’s Early. Medium size; red flesh; green skin. 
Cuban Queen. Solid and heavy; skin marked regularly. 
riorida'Eavorite. A superior strain; oblong; green white stripes. 
Fordbook, Early. Flesh bright red; very sweet.. 
Hungarian Honey. A very early sort; irerfeetly round; flesh red. 
Ice Cream, White Seed. Very early; red flesh. 
Jordan Gray Monarch. Largest grown; crimson flesh. 
Kolb Gem. Large; bright red flesh of fine quality. 
Mammoth Iron-Clad. Light green skin, striped dark green. 
Mountain Sweet. Flesh red; late. 
Sweetheart. Very large; bright skin. 
M U S H K () () M 8 V A W A . 
10 pounds will spawn about 10 feet square. 
Mushroom beds may be made in a v^arm, dry cellar, or in any building where the frost does not 
penetrate, and in the open air during the Summer and Fall months. Having procured the spawn, 
the nex.t thing to be attended to is to make preparation for the beds. About a fortnight or three 
weeks before the beds are to be made collect a quantity of fresh horse manure without the straw; 
place it in a heap under cover, and as it heats keep turning 
it over once or twice a week, until the fieiy heat has become 
exhausted, which will require from ten to fourteen days time. 
When the manure is in a condition to be made up, lay out 
your bed according to your requirements, say three feet wide, 
ten feet long, and from two to three feet deep; beat it down 
well with the back of the spade as the process of building 
goes on. When the bed has been made some time, say a 
week or thereabouts, and the heat sufficiently declined to a 
temperature of 65 or 75 degrees, the spawn may be put into 
it. Break the spawn in pieces two inches square, and put 
them six inches apart, all over the bed; then cover the bed 
with two inches of rich soil, the stronger the better, but of 
a loamy quality, beating it down firmly with a spade. The 
soil used for this purpose should be in pliable condition, 
and not too wet or over-dry. Cover the bed with a foot of 
dried straw or hay; examine once a week to see if the 
manure is not heated w'hile in this coiidition; if so, it will 
destroy the spawn, and necessitate spawning a second time. 
If everything goes on well, you may expect mushrooms in 
about five or six weeks. When the soil looks dry, give a 
gentle watering with tepid water, using a rose on the watering 
If the beds are made out-of-doors, protect them from the rain by covering them with shutter.s 
or sashes. Good crops of mu.shrooms can be obtained by spawning’the hot-beds in Spring. They 
can also be raised in pots, boxes or anything capable of keeping the materials together, and placed 
in a cellar, closet or green-house. 
Marshall’s English Spawn. Per brick, 18 cts.; 10 bricks, $1.50; per 100 bricks, $11.00. 
Pure Culture Spawn (American). Per brick, 2.1 cts.; 10 bricks, $1.75; 50 bricks, $7.00. 
If by mail, add 10 cts. per brick for postage. 
M U 8 T A R 3) . 
One ounce will sow 75 feet of drill. 
For early crops the seed may be sown in a hot-bed in March, and for general crop at fre¬ 
quent intervals through the Spring, in drills from 8 to 12 inches apaid. 
Per Oz. 
White London. The best variety for salad. $0.05 
Giant Southern Curled. Very large leaves.10 
Mushrooms. 
pot 
M Li). 
$0.10 
.15 
Lb. 
$0.30 
.50 
OlvKA Oil GUMBO. 
One ounce will plant 100 hills. 
This plant is extensively cultivated for its green pods, which are used in soups and stews, and 
are very wholesome and nutritious. Sow about the middle of M; ^ 
thin out the plants to 1 foot apart. 
Dwarf Green. Very early; smooth pods. $0.05 
Long Green. Long ribbed pods; very productive. 
Perkin’s Improved. Pods very tender, long, and deep green.05 
White Velvet. Tender white pods; smooth and velvety in appearance... 
ill drills 
3 feet 
apart. 
, and 
Per Pkt. 
Oz. 
% Lb. 
Lb. 
. $0.05 
$0.10 
$0.20 
$0.60 
.05 
.10 
.20 
.60 
.05 
.10 
.25 
.75 
. .05 
.10 
.25 
.75 
