. Burpee's farm annual, 1887 : garden, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. BURPEE'S VEGETABLE SEEDS. 67 SEED POD OF MARTYNIA PROBOSCIDEA. While quite ornamental in growth, quickly forming large bushes and bearing handsome Gloxinia-like flowers, it is grown chiefly for its large, curious-shaped seed-pods. ^Vhen â young and tender (test hy pinching with the nail) these seed-pods make excellent pickles, and as they are pro- duced in great abundance, a few plants will suffice for an ordinary gar
. Burpee's farm annual, 1887 : garden, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. BURPEE'S VEGETABLE SEEDS. 67 SEED POD OF MARTYNIA PROBOSCIDEA. While quite ornamental in growth, quickly forming large bushes and bearing handsome Gloxinia-like flowers, it is grown chiefly for its large, curious-shaped seed-pods. ^Vhen â young and tender (test hy pinching with the nail) these seed-pods make excellent pickles, and as they are pro- duced in great abundance, a few plants will suffice for an ordinary garden. Sow in May or June, in rows at least three feet apart, and thin to two feet in the row. Martynia Proboscidea. The best for pickles. Per pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 30 cts.; 3{fi>3^-oo; per 5) ;$ MUSHROOMS. Mushrooms can be grown in a dr>' cellar, under the benches of a green-house, 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 contain the bed, lay some long manure at the bottom, and then the pre- pared 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, two inches thick; after a few dajs, when the rank heat has passed off, say to 90 de- grees, then place the spaNNTi in the beds in lumps about 2 inches square and 6 inches apart, covering with light earth an inch deep ; beat it gently down all over. Cover the bed thickly with straw, and if out of doors, keep off rain, and protect from the cold with mats or boards. In about six to eight weeks the Mushrooms should make theirappearance. Examine the bed often to see that it does not get dry, and when water is given it should be at the temperature of loc degrees. A bed two
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