Cole’s Early Watermelon. 
'•x,Vj.'V >/7‘ 
Ripens Delicious Melons in Northern States, Where Melons Never 
- - — —-- Matured Before.—^ r — — 
Just as Valuable for Middle and Southern States, Ripening Melons 
Weeks Before Any Other.= ~~ 
C OLE’S EARLY is the finest Watermelon for the family 
garden. People, particularly in our Northern 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 cultivation, but it continues to bear 
throughout the season. The beautiful bright red flesh is crisp 
and of delicate texture — 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 quality of which 
is sustained clear to the rindr 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., 15c. oz., 35c. 
i lb., $1.00 lb. 
WHAT ONE CUSTOMER THINKS OF IT* 
“ The seasons in this portion of northern New York State are as late and 
unfavorable for growing watermelons as anywhere in our land, as early frosts 
usually prevent them from ripening. Moved by the description in your catalogue, 
but having no hope of success, I planted six hills of Cole's Early Watermelon', 
which produced perfectly ripened melons weighing, from 10 to 17 pounds each, and 
one weighing 29 pounds, before the frost came, September 26th. These melons, 
in ripeness and eating qualities, equalled the best Southern melons. You should 
add these words to your catalogue description: ‘ Cole's Early Watermelon will 
perfectly ripen full crops of delicious melons throughout the extreme riorthern 
portion of the United States before early frosts.' Personally I am grateful to you 
for having provided this delicacy for us Northern people."—GEORGE LEWIS , 
Potsdam, N. Y . 
COLES EARLY WATERMELON. 
MUSHROOM SPAWN. 
LARGE WHITE FRENCH =■-= ■ , VIRGIN SPAWN 
Its Sterilized Medium being freed from other* types, as 
well as Bacterial Enemies, reduces the possibilities of 
failure and aids in insuring a bountiful yield of the Larg¬ 
est, Handsomest and most Luscious Mushrooms known. 
MUSHROOM SPAWN propagated continuously by the ordinary 
method usually degenerates, giving decreasing yields of inferior 
Mushrooms. Some growers, in their efforts to overcome this de¬ 
terioration, procure spores from chance-grown Mushrooms in field 
°£ farmyard, but these, on account of the diversity of varieties, 
their consequent varied merits and values, seldom prove satis¬ 
factory. This new spawn is produced by a new method direct from 
mrgtn spores secured from the finest type of healthy, large, white 
French Mushrooms. These being propagated in a sterilized me¬ 
dium insure freedom from inferior types as well as the bacterial 
enemies, so often prevalent in ordinary spawn. Virgin Mushroom 
Spawn is sold in compressed tablets measuring 3Jx2JxlJ inches, 
to be split into four portions, each portion to be planted ten to 
twelve inches apart. Full cultural instructions for Virgin Spawn 
to every purchaser , which shoidd be carefully followed. (See cut.) 
Price of tablets, 15c. each, $1.50 per doz., delivered in the U. S. 
AMERICAN “PURE CULTURE” MUSHROOM 
— SPAWN. 
Recent discoveries in the production of Mushroom Spawn 
enable pure cultures to be taken direct from selected specimens 
of specific varieties, thus allowing us to offer spawn from improved, 
pedigree mushrooms—the prolific, large, round, well shaped, 
creamy-white kind of such surpassing flavor. Spawn of this 
character insures 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. 
Another merit of this American Spawn is in its being produced 
from acclimatized mushrooms, which fact speaks for itself. It is 
sold in bricks measuring about 8Jx5JxlJ inches. Each brick 
weighs from 1} to 1 § lbs., sufficient to spawn an area of 9 square 
feet. (See cut.) 
Price, purchaser paying carriage, per lb. 20c., 8 lbs. for $1.30, 
per 100 lbs. $14.00. If wanted by mail, add ioc. per lb. for postage. 
Our leaflet — Mushroom Culture—thoroughly up-to-date, free to Customers on application. 
