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"shy" bearing and ill-shaped pod.- of the Yosemite are eliminated, 

 while tlic seeds being white makes it especially valuable to market 

 gardeners who wish to use it as a shell bean, in case the marketing of 

 string beans proves unprofitable. The pods are very beautiful, of a 

 waxy white color, cylindrical in shape, and of medium size. The 

 plants are very early, very dwarf in habit, and run remarkably even 

 and pure. This variety is similar to the recently introduced Golden 

 Ciown Stringless, and also to the old and well-known Challenge 

 Black Wax, from which it differs principally in color of seed and 

 larger vine. 

 Seed Furnished by l>. M. Ferry & Co., 0<tr<>ii. Mich. 



oNlo.X. 

 Southern Grown Yellow Globe Danvers. 



This seed is said by the grower to be specially adapted for the 

 Southern States, and to make better bulbs when planted in the South 

 than seed grown in California even or other sections of the country. 



The variety is the old and well-known yellow sort, grown so much 

 more extensively than any other and seen everywhere in our market-. 

 It is deeper in shape than the Yellow Danvers or Flat Danvers, but 

 otherwise is the same. The bulbs are a flat globe shape, of medium 

 size, intermediate in season, medium yellow in color, and of a mild 

 flavor. The variety is hardy, productive, a good keeper, and a good 

 general purpose sort. 



Seed furnished by T. W. Wood A: Sons, Richmond, Va. 



MTSKMELON. 

 Rocky Ford. 



This variety is a strain of the old and w^ell-known Netted Gem, and 

 lias been recently developed and grown in immense quantities at Rocky 

 Ford, Colo. . whence it has been shipped extensively to all the eastern 

 and northern markets. The variety has been made extremely popular 

 by the Rocky Ford growers, as much on account of the careful ship- 

 ping they have practiced as for the fine melons they have been able to 

 produce in their ideal melon-growing country. The development of 

 the variety is obscure and disputed. It was first introduced by seeds- 

 men in 1899. 



The melon is very early and productive, and the fruit is oval shaped, 

 shallow ribbed, densely netted, small in size, and mottled green and 

 yellow in color. The flesh is green, of the very best quality, and, 

 though not as rich as some others, is not surpassed in sweetness by 

 any. while it is uniformly good and more universally liked than any 

 other. 



This seed was carefully selected by I). V. Burrill, of Rocky Ford, Colo., from melons of uniform size 

 that were ideal in every particular. 



