* Now! You Can Grow 
|MUSHROOMS 
No Odor! 
Easy to Grow 
in your own 
basement! 
Delicious 
Mushrooms at 
low cost! 
Now you can have safe delicious mushrooms, grow- 
ing right in your own basement! The beds come com- 
plete, with the mushrooms preplanted in safe, pas- 
teurized compost. All you do is put the trays in 
your basement or cave (mushrooms grow best in 
temperatures ranging from 52 to 65 degrees) and 
water them, You’ll have tender, delicious mush- 
rooms in 2 or 3 weeks, and they’ll keep coming on 
for months. There’s no odor, no mess, no trouble, 
no danger. Order today . . . no shipments made after 
April 15th, Complete instructions in each shipment. 
Make up an order with friends to save Express 
charges. 
3 trays, $4.50; 6 or more, $1.25 each. 
eae Express charges collect from Ashtabula, 
io. 
AIROSPRAYER 
ADJUSTABLE SPRAY 
NON-CLOG NOZZLE 
DOUBLE-ACTION PUMP 
100 LBS. PRESSURE 
HEAVY GAUGE BRASS 
@ EASY TO OPERATE 
Airosprayer dispenses a continuous un- 
broken spray under pressure up to 100 
lbs. Nozzle adjusts from a finely atom- 
ized mist up to a 35-foot stream. Will 
‘handle everything from water to heavy 
emulsions like whitewash or creosote. 
Simply drop weighted end into con- 
tainer and start pumping. 
EACH $7.45 POSTPAID 
‘From A Powerful Jet To The Softest 
Mist At The Tip Of Your Finger.” 
Here’s something brand new .. - really revolutionary! 
It’s the Elkay Valve Hose Nozzle. Extremely durable, 
easy to attach to your hose, virtually indestructible. 
Finger-tip adjustments give you a gentle mist, raindrop 
‘spray, 60 ft. needle spray, or wide angle fan spray. Can 
pour volumes of water on the roof of a two story house 
... a real emergency fire-fighter! 
: Each $1.50, Postpaid. 
DESIGNS from our LANDSCAPE DEPARTMENT 
FLOWERING SHRUB BORDER TALL SHRUBS. 
1. 2 Minnesota Snow- 
In the Landscape Plan above you have an ideal arrangement for a shrub border 
+158 planting which will be colorful with bloom and will become more beautiful flake A 
wisi soy erataion year. Every shrub in this planting, listed at the right, was 2. 1 French Lilac 
chosen for hardiness as well as beauty. You can depend upon the planting to 
be a source of pleasure and pride for years to come. You will receive sturdy, well MEDIUM_SHRUBS 
developed plants in our Selected 18 to 24 Inch Size. And right along with them 3. 2 Forsythia Golden 
you will receive complete planting instructions, including the spacing for each Bell 
iis All em nos a described on following pages of the catalog. Order your 4. 2 Spirea Billiardi 
lowerin, i inni 
gz batt rder now. It is the beginning of expertly planned floral 5. 2 Regal Privet 
beauty in your yard. Send your order today. 
LOW SHRUBS 
OUTDOOR LIVING ROOM 6. 3 Spirea Anthony 
The Landscape Plans above and below 7 Cats 
were expertly designed to work in com- ‘e ) - 2 Hydrangea A.G. . 
binations. Two corner plantings (only 8. 2 Mock Orange 
eke oath Rees. you a ee Ou Tooo Lemoine 
© the back of your yard. Wi i 
the addition of two Flowering Shrub Bavinse ni : UES) po aoeere: 
Borders you have a complete planting House - 5 Dwarf Ninebark 
around your entire back yard as shown 0 Rpom Order No. 5494 
at the right. All of this, 94 Shrubs, at 
only $66.40, Prepaid to you. 
: C All 18 to 24 Inch Size 
All 24 Shrubs 
30'To 35’ os $16.95 Prepaid 
TALL SHRUBS 
1. 3 Red Twig Dogwood 
2. 2 Minnesota Snowflake 
MEDIUM SHRUBS 
3. 2 Regal Privet 
4. 3 Forsythia Golden Bell 
LOW SHRUBS 
~ FLOWERING SHRUB 
CORNER PLANTING 
. 3 Red Flowering Spirea 
: 5 
_ Our Landscape Department’s recommendation 6. 3 Red Flowering Quince 
-for your corner problem. A colorful planting, 
“ aquthentic in design and bringing you hardy 7. 3 Red Leaf Barberry 
‘shrubs for years of pride and pleasure. 8 dif- 8. 4 Hydrangea A. G. 
-- ferent varieties, 23 shrubs, for only $13.95, Pre- 
. paid. All of them are described on following Order No. 5493 
pages. With your order will come complete in- All 18 to 24 Inch Size 
structions for planting and exact spacing. The 
earlier you plant, the more growth you gain. 23 Shrubs $16.25 
Order today. Postpaid 
25° 
aoe coer ae ne heel nae ce 
Landscape Dept., Earl May Seed Co. 
Shenandoah, lowa 
SEND THE COUPON FOR 
LANDSCAPE SERVICE 
Enclosed find 25c to cover the cost of sending me com- 
plete details about your Landscape Service. 
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i We have a Landscape Department staffed 
: by Graduate Landscape Architects. We 
1 are ready to design a planting specifically 
m 1 fitted to your needs .. . for any part of 
Nane__ eee t 
' your yard or for your entire property. 
1 With the purchase of a nominal amount 
: of nursery stock, the plan will cost you 
: nothing. For complete details, fill out and 
mail the coupon. 
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