Wholesale catalogue of seeds, bulbs and plants / Clucas & Boddington Co.

              CLUCAS Sr  BODDINGTON CO.
NEW   YORK
77
Spring, 1905, Wholesale Catalogue
Virgin Mushroom Spawn
House of Mushrooms Grown from Our Virgin Spawn
The merits of this particular make of Mushroom Spawn have only recently come to our attention, and we were so impressed
by the many substantial and unsolicited testimonials from large and practical growers of mushrooms for market, that we concluded to bring it before the notice of our customers.
Every brick is made from Virgin Spawn, which produces quick and heavy crops, and lasts long in bearing.
PRICE  OF VIRGIN  MUSHROOM  SPAWN
Per lb $0.08   I   100 lbs $6.00
Per bash, of  16 bricks  (about 25 lbs.)    1.75   |   1000 lbs 55.00
250 lbs. at 1000-lb. rate
A   Few    of   the    Testimonials
The English Mushroon Spawn which I purchased from you this winter
has given most excellent results.  The mushrooms are of a superior quality,
and the soawn  quick to  develop.    Every bed planted with your spawn
came up thick with mushrooms.    The same cannot be said of other beds.
W. G. Gomersali.,
Gardener to "Winthrop Sargent, Esq.,
Jan. 20, 1903. Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y.
Please send me at once 50 bushels Oi good spawn, send best you have.
The other 50 was very satisfactory. T. W. Cudmore.
Will you kindly forward me 20 bushels of Mushroom Spawn as early as
convenient. I am glad to say that what I had from you last year turned
out first-rate. I had spawn from three other makers besides yourself, but
yours was 50 per cent, better than the best of the others.
I. Duck.
PURE   CULTURE,   MUSHROOM   SPAWN
Is made from the largest and best mushrooms that can be depended upon to produce the maximum yield.
The best English spawn is  made from  virgin  spawn  collected in  places where Nature produces it accidentally; it is simply wild
spawn, and the bricks made from such virgin spawn have been considered the best in the market.
PURE CULTURE SPAWN is made from virgin spawn, which is produced by scientific  methods  directly from carefully selected mushrooms; in making such selections the size of the mushroom, the thickness in flesh and its prolific qualities are all  taken  into consideration.    Such methods of improving crops by careful
selection of the seeds are remarkable in their results.
Price of Pure Culture Spawn, $10.00 per 100 lbs., $1.25 per 10 lbs., 15c. per lb.
HOT-BED   MATS
Frost-proof, indestructible and cheap. Palmer's burlap, 40 x76 inches, 80c. each, $9.00
perdoz.; 76x76 inches, $1.10 each, $12.00 perdoz. Palmer's mats can be made any length
desired.  76 inches wide, 20c. per running foot.
Duck and Burlap. Will turn water. 40x76, $1.10 each, per doz. $12.15. 76x76, $1.50
each, per doz. $14.85 ; any length desired, 76 inches wide, 30c. per running foot.
Rattan Hats.    Very economical.    74x74 inches, $1.80 each, $19.00 per doz.
Straw Hats.    Made of best rye straw, 6x6 feet, $1.50 each, $17.00 per doz.
Palmer's Burlap Mats
Nurseries and Trial Grounds—Sparkill, Rockland, Co., New York