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VEGETABLE SEED SPECIALTIES 
Cole’s Early Watermelon 
Ripens Delicious Melons in Northern States, Where Melons 
Never Matured Before 
Just as Valuable for Middle and Southern States, I^ipening 
Melons Weeks Before Any Other 
C OLE’S EARLY is the finest Watermelon for the 
family garden. People, particularly in our North¬ 
ern States, can now enjoy, from the beginning to the 
close of the season, most delicious Watermelons, for 
COLE’S EARLY is not only the earliest variety in culti¬ 
vation, but it continues to l)car throughout the season. 
The beautiful Ijright red flesh is crisp and of delicate 
te.xture — granulated, cool and sparkling. In flavor it is 
lusciously sweet and refreshing. The Melons are not 
large, seldom over 12 inches in length by 9 inches 
in diameter, but what they lack in size is 'more than 
made up in number and solidity. The heart is large, 
there is little or no cavity, and very few seeds — all solid 
flesh, the rjuality of which is sustained clear to the rind. 
It can be grown successfully over a larger latitude than 
any other Watermelon, and it will mature large crops 
in Northern States when the season is as long as that 
of New York. {See cut.) 10c. pkt., 16c. oz., 35c. \ lb., 
$1.00 lb. 
"/ live on a mountain S,676 feet above the eca level. The nights 
are so col-l that vielo}\s do not do well as a rule — but never were better 
melons matured anywhere tiutn those I grew of your Cole's Early variety." 
JAMES E. TUTTI E, Maywood, IC. Va. 
"Coles's Early Watermelons were of the best quality and also very 
Vroductive." V. M. BliOWN, East }^Ioravia, Pa. 
"The Cole's Early Watermelon seed from you produced Oie finest 
melons ever raised in this section of the country," 
PERCY L. MILLER, Merriaiti, Kans. 
LARGE WHITE 
A NEW VIRGIN SPAWN ^ 
Producing Large White 
FRENCH MUSHROOMS | 
I TS Sterilized Medium being freed ^ 
from other types, as well as ^ 
Bacterial Enemies, reduces the pos- 
sibilities of failure and aids in insuring 
a bountiful yield of the Largest, ^ 
Handsomest and Most Luscious Mush* 
rooms known. 
FRENCH MUSHROOMS— Virgin Spawn. 
M ushroom spawn propagated continuously b}" the ordinary method usually degener¬ 
ates, giving decreasing yields of inferior mushrooms. Some growers, in their efforts 
to overcome this deterioration, procure spores from chance-grown Mushrooms in field 
or farmyard, but these, on account of the diversity of varieties, their consequent varied 
inerits and values, seldom j^rove satisfactory. This new spawn is produced by a new method 
dtrect from virgin spores secured from the finest type of healthy, large, white French Mush¬ 
rooms. These being propagated in a sterilized medium insure freedom from inferior types 
as well as the bacterial enemies so often prevalent in ordinary spawn. Virgin .IMushroom Spawn 
is sold in compressed tablets measuring 3^x2ixlJ inches, to be split into four portions, each 
portion to be planted ten to twelve inches apart. Full cnltural instructions for Virgin Spaivn 
to every purchaser, which should be carefully followed. {See cut.) Price of tablets, 15c. each, 
$1.60 per doz., delivered in the United States. 
Our L.eaflet MUSHROOM CULTURE — THorou^Kly Up-to-Date, Free to Cvistomers on Application. 
“ The French Virgin Spawn purchasedfrom you 
turned out beyond my highest expectations. The 
mushrooms were large and lovely, and we had two 
crops without any care beyond properly making 
the bed according to directions." 
-1/rs. F. W. BA TEMAN, 
Great Kills, S. I., N. Y. 
AMERICAN '‘PURE CULTURE” 
MUSHROOM SPAWN. 
R ecent discoveries in the produc¬ 
tion of Mushroom Spawn enable 
pure cultures to be taken direct 
from selected specimens of specific va¬ 
rieties, insuring a greater yield of more 
uniform and marketable product than 
spawn “run” from hit-and-miss, large, 
small and unevenly shaped and colored 
varieties of mushrooms. 
It is sold in bricks measuring about 
S^xoJxl.J inches. Each brick weighs 
from 1 J to H lbs., sufficient to spawn 
an area of 9 scjuare feet. 
Price, ])urchaser paying carriage, per 
lb. 20c., 8 lbs. for $1.30, per 100 lbs. 
$14.00. If wanted by mail, add 10c. 
per lb. for postage. 
