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Cole s Early Watermelon. 
RIPENS DELICIOUS MELONS 
in Northern States, Where Melons Never Matured Before. 
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 North¬ 
ern Statesman 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 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 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., 15c. oz., 35c. lb., 
$1.00 lb. 
“ I live on a mountain 8,675 feet above the sea level. The nights 
are so cold that melons do not do well as a rule—but never were better 
melons matured anywhere than those / grew of your Cote's Early variety." 
JAMES E. TUTTLE , Maywood, W. Va. 
“ Coles's Early Watermelons were of the best quality and also very 
'productive." V. M. BROWN, East Moravia, Pa. 
“ The Cole's Early Watermelon seed from you produced the finest 
melons ever raised in this section of the country." 
PERCY L. MILLER, Merriam, Kons. 
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 possibilities of 
failure and aids in insuring a bountiful 
yield of the Largest, Handsomest and ^ 
Most Luscious Mushrooms known. 
French Mushrooms—Virgin Spawn. 
M USHROOM SPAWN propagated continuously by 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 
merits and values, seldom prove satisfactory. This new spawn is produced by a new method 
direct 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 Mushroom Spawn 
is sold in compressed tablets measuring 3§x2Jxl§ 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., $10.00 per 100, delivered in the United States. 
“ The French Virgin Spawn purchased from you 
turned out beyond my highest expectations. The 
mushrooms were large arid lovely, and we had two 
crops without any care beyorul properly making 
the bed according to directions." 
Mrs. F. W. BATEMAN, 
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 
8Jx5JxlJ inches. Each brick weighs 
from 1 J to 1 J lbs., sufficient to spawn 
an area of 9 square feet. 
Price, purchaser paving carriage, per 
lb. 20c., 8 lbs. for $i.30, per 100 lbs. 
$14.00. If wanted by mail, add 10c. 
per lb. for postage. 
Our Leaflet-MUSHROOM CULTURE-Thoroughly Up-to-date, FREE TO CUSTOMERS on Application. 
