. Dreer's garden calendar for 1887. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. Mountain Sweet. Mountain Sweet. Early, large, oblong, dark green, thin rind, flesh red, solid, rich and sweet. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 15 cts., lb. $ Pride of Georgia. Dark green; oval, and attains a large size; flesh deep red, crisp and sweet. A good shipper. Per pkt. 5 cts., oz. 20 cts., lb. $ Striped Gipsy, or Rattlesnake. An early variety; large, oblong, skin green, mottled and striped, rind thin, flesh crimson, sweet and fine flavored. One of the best shipping sorts.
. Dreer's garden calendar for 1887. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. Mountain Sweet. Mountain Sweet. Early, large, oblong, dark green, thin rind, flesh red, solid, rich and sweet. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 15 cts., lb. $ Pride of Georgia. Dark green; oval, and attains a large size; flesh deep red, crisp and sweet. A good shipper. Per pkt. 5 cts., oz. 20 cts., lb. $ Striped Gipsy, or Rattlesnake. An early variety; large, oblong, skin green, mottled and striped, rind thin, flesh crimson, sweet and fine flavored. One of the best shipping sorts. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 15 cts., lb. $ Orange. Flesh red, tenderand sweet, separating from the rind like an orange. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 15 cts., lb. $ Citron. For preserving only ; small, round, flesh white and solid, with red seeds. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 15 cts., lb. $ MUSHHOOMS. MUSHROOMS. Champignonbrot, Ger. Champignon, Fk. Seta 6 Uuevus de Hongos, Sp. Mushrooms can be grown in a dry cellar, under the benches of a greenhouse, or in sheds, where the tempera- ture can be kept from 50 to 60 degrees through the winter. Collect fresh horse-droppings without straw, turn them over three or four times to get rid of the heat, and then mix one-third of fresh soil from an old pasture with the prepared manure. Dig out a foot deep of the space to con- tain the bed, lay some long manure at the bottom, and then the prepared manure and soil, a little at a time, evenly and well beaten down until it is a foot above the ground ; put a layer of good light earth on this, 2 inches thick; after a few days, when the rank heat has passed off, say to 90 degrees, place the spawn in the bed in lumps about 2 inches square and 6 inches apart, covering with earth an inch thick ; beat it gently down all over. In about 6 to 8 weeks the Mushrooms should make their ap- pearance, Examine the bed often to see that it does not MUSHROOMS— Continued. get dry, and when water is given it should be at the tem- pe
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