LETTUCE-Continued 
Big 
Boston 
—The Old 
Reliable 
California Cream Butter Early Prize Head 
BROWN DUTCH BUTTER—A fine large heading variety of excellent 
quality and a buttery flavor. It seldom fails to make a large solid head. 
It will withstand heat. Leaves are broad and thick and quite wrinkled. 
Postpaid, pkt. 5c, oz. 9c, Vi lb. 21 c, Vz lb. 38c, 1 lb. 70c. 
BLACK SEEDED SIMPSON—A fine cutting variety of unusual merit. 
Grows very compact on the order of head lettuce, but does not head. 
Leaves are light green in color. Postpaid, pkt. 5c, oz. 11c, Vi lb. 23c, 
Va lb. 43c, 1 lb. 78c. 
EARLY CURLED SIMPSON (Silesia)—An early maturing variety that 
is good for forcing in hot beds, forming a compact mass of leaves. 
Leaves are light green with curled edges and are very tender. This 
variety will withstand drouth. Postpaid, pkt. 5c, oz. 11c, 
Va lb. 78c. 
Globular Shaped Solid Heads 
Which Are Firm. Dark green, 
round thick leaves forming a very 
solid round head which stands a 
long time without running to seed. 
Outer leaves spotted brown, inner 
ones blanched to a rich yellow. 
Exceedingly rich and buttery in 
flavor. Postpaid, pkt. 5c; oz. 11c; 
Vi lb. 23c; 1/2 lb. 43c; 1 lb. 78c. 
Mammoth Big Boston 
Big, Compact, Tender, Creamy 
White Heads. A very popular 
variety for Market Gardeners. It 
heads well in the open ground 
during cool weather in Spring and 
Fall and is grown very extensive¬ 
ly in the South for shipping North 
during the Winter. It is also a 
fine forcing variety for cold-frames 
during the Winter months. Very 
hardy, sure to head and produces 
solid heads of large size, often 
10 to 12 inches across, which are 
slow to go to seed. The leaves 
are thin, hard and crisp, compara¬ 
tively smooth but wavy at the 
edges and are of bright light green 
color, slightly tinged with reddish 
brown. The inner head blanches 
to an attractive greenish-white. 
The quality is excellent. Post¬ 
paid, Pkt. 5c; oz. 11c; Vi lb. 23c; 
Va lb. 43c; 1 lb. 78c. 
Crisp Tender. Bright Green 
Leaves Edged with Brown. This 
old standard sort still stands at 
the head of the thin-leaved clust¬ 
ering sorts for the home garden. 
Exceedingly tender, crisp and 
sweet. There is more Prize Head 
Lettuce grown in this country 
than any other variety. Leaves 
light brown, varying to bright 
green. Postpaid, pkt. 5c; oz. 15c; 
1/4 lb. 45c; V2 lb. 80c; 1 lb. $1.48. 
New Creamy Heart 
The Improved California Cream 
Butter. Rich, Buttery Flavor, 
Solid Heart. This excellent var¬ 
iety of Lettuce is in favor with 
both private and market garden¬ 
ers. It is a very reliable, hard- 
heading variety of Cabbage Let¬ 
tuce and will give satisfaction 
wherever grown. It rarely fails 
to make a large, solid head and is 
adapted for both spring and sum¬ 
mer use. It withstands heat and 
forms large heads, leaves closely 
set. with solid heart, even before 
it is fully grown. The leaves are 
broad, very thick and crumpled. 
Postpaid, pkt. 5c; oz. 11c; Vi lb. 
23c; V2 lb. 43c; 1 lb. 78c. 
Chicken or Rabbit Lettuce 
The finest green feed Tor chickens or rabbits., In this new variety you will find 
a feed which yields as much or more than other green feeds. It is economical to grow 
for when cut it resumes its growth rapidly and can be cut again and again; or the 
leaves can be pulled off each stem. The yield is extremely heavy. Chicken or Rabbit 
Lettuce IS too coarse for the table. Grows 3 to 4 feet high and just loaded with larqe 
leaves. Pkt. Sc; oz. 15c; »/j lb., 40c; lb., $1.25, postpaid. 
Celery Asparagus or Ivory White Sea Kale 
One Ounce Will Produce About 200 Plants. Asparagus Celery or Ivory 
White Sea Kale is a delicious perennial vegetable which is cultivated 
somewhat like Asparagus, and is very easily grown. It is ready for 
use earlier in the spring than Asparagus, and combines the flavor of 
Asparagus with that of Celery. Its blanched stalks are cooked like 
Asparagus and the leaves are used as greens. Pkt. 10c; 3 pkts. 25c; oz. 
48c, postpaid. 
Corn Salad 
A most refreshing salad, especially for Winter use; can also be cooked 
and used like spinach. Plant is of quick growth and hardy. For Spring 
crop sow seed % inch deep in rows 1 foot apart and thin to G inches 
in row. For exdra early crop, sow seed in September and cover with 
straw or leaves in Northern States. For Fall use a sowing should be 
made in July or August. One ounce will plant a row 50 feet long. Pkt. 
5c, ounce 10c, Vi lb. 30c, postpaid. 
BIG MONEY MAKER MUSHROOMS 
EASY TO SELL 
FUN TO GROW 
EASY CULTURE SPAWN 
Rapid development has been made in mushroom spawn 
culture so that growing mushrooms today has elimi¬ 
nated many of the hazards found in growing crops 
of the past. Never have we been able to sell the 
spawn at such a low price before. Your success will 
depend more on preparing your bed and following 
cultural instructions which are so simple to follow. 
One should secure pounds of Mushrooms for a very 
small space devoted to the growing of this tempting 
delicacy. 
PURE CULTURE SURE TO GROW BOTTLE SPAWN. 
One bottle dried spawn will plant 5 times what one brick 
will plant. Will keep a year and cheapest to buy and more 
sure to grow. One bottle will plant 35 to 40 square feet. 
Each 69c; 3 for $1.75; 6 for $2.98, postpaid. ALL GUAR¬ 
ANTEED toi grow for one year. 
HOW TO PREPARE A BED— 
Mushroom beds may be made in a 
warm, dry cellar, or in any build¬ 
ing where the frost does not pene¬ 
trate, and in the open air during 
the summer and fall months. Hav¬ 
ing procured the spawn, the next 
thing to be attended to is to make 
preparations 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 Mushrooms Growing on Single Shelf 
a week, until the fiery heat has 
become exhausted, which will re¬ 
quire 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 well down with-the back of the spade as the process of building goes on. When 
the bed has been made some time, isay a week or thereabouts, and the heat sufficiently 
declined to a temperature of 65 or 75 degrees, the spawn may be put into it. Cover spawn 
with two inches of rich soil. When soil looks dry, give a gentle watering with tepid 
water, using a Lose or watering-can. 
HARDY TOMATO PLANTS 
VARIETIES: Earliana, Marglobe, Stone, Ponderosa (late), John Baer (Ey: Canner) 
Mixed Late and Mixed Early Varieties—100 plants postpaid for 69c; 200 for $1.19; 500 
for $1.75; 100O for $2.98; Prepaid. (500 or more shipped Via Express prepaid.) 
HARDY ONION—(See page 51) 
FROST PROOF CABBAGE—(See page 51) 
PLANTING HARDY ONIONS, TOMATOES & CABBAGE 
Where extra early plants are wanted, this affords an excellent way, getting an early 
start—Also when too late in the season to start seed, it again affords a sure method 
of getting a crop. Please bear this in mind when ordering plants. Starting with seed 
will give you all the plants you need, if started in time. 
