. 29th annual seed catalogue & price list of everything for the garden, farm and orchard : season 1898. Nursery stock Tennessee Memphis Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. New York Head Lettuce,—Forms large, solid heads, often of three to four pounds weight, < t a very dark green color outside; inside the leaves are greenish, white, crisp and tender. Oz. 15c; 2 oz., 25c; % ib., 40c; 1 lb., $ MUSHROOM SPAWX. Mushrooms may be grown in a warm cellar or shed in winter, or in the open air
. 29th annual seed catalogue & price list of everything for the garden, farm and orchard : season 1898. Nursery stock Tennessee Memphis Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. New York Head Lettuce,—Forms large, solid heads, often of three to four pounds weight, < t a very dark green color outside; inside the leaves are greenish, white, crisp and tender. Oz. 15c; 2 oz., 25c; % ib., 40c; 1 lb., $ MUSHROOM SPAWX. Mushrooms may be grown in a warm cellar or shed in winter, or in the open air in summer. Take partially dry fresh horse manure and lay it in a heap to ferment ; turn and mix it well every few days and when well and equally fermented, which will be in from ten to fifteen davs, it may be made into a bed four feet wide aud about two feet deep, mixing it well together and beating or treading it firmly. As soon as the temperature of the bed falls from 75 to 50 de grees the spawn may be inserted in pieces about the size of a walnut, about two inches deep and six inches apart. Cover with loamy soil about two inches deep and beat it down evenly and firtnlv. Finish off with a covering of clean straw or hay about a foot thick. Water when neces- sary with lukewarm wate~, and expect Mushrooms in from four to six weeks. English in Bricks, per pound, 25c; by mail add 10c per CANTALOUPE OR MUSK MELOXS. One ounce will plant about 50 hills—two pounds to the acre. The soil best adapted to the culture of melons is a warm, rich, sand}' loam. Plant in hills five or six feet apart each way, ten or twelve seeds in a hill. When they begin to vine, thin out, leaving only four of the most thrifty As melons are very sensitive to cold, they should not be planted till the settled warm weather begins—in thi $ latitude about the middle of April. Cultivation should commence as soon as the plauts appear above the ground, and be kept up once a week until the vines interfere
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