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and to be also exceedingly vigorous, health}-, and remarkably rust 

 proof. The pods are light green in color, very long, and perfectly 

 round, solid fleshed, and of a very soft and marrowy texture. The 

 vines are very large and erect in habit, the leaves very dark, the 

 seeds black, and season late. It is claimed by the originators that 

 for productiveness, solidity of flesh, and roundness of pod it excels 

 any variety now in cultivation. 



Seed furnished by J. M. Thorburn & Co., New York. 



TOMATO. 



Success. 



Originated in 1S97 by M. M. Miesse, a market gardener and tomato 

 specialist of Lancaster, Ohio. Introduced in 1900 by William Henry 

 Maule under the name of "Maule's 1900" and in the following year 

 called "Success." 



This is an excellent, very large, smooth, deep scarlet variety, similar 

 to many other recently introduced varieties, such as Noble, Century, 

 and Marvel, but said to be superior to them in productiveness and 

 smoothness of fruit and to be more free from any hard or green core. 

 The variety does undoubtedly combine these qualities to a very large 

 degree and, as claimed, is of excellent quality and a splendid sort for 

 either the canner, trucker, or private gardener. The foliage is of the 

 common large-leaved kind, and the vines are strong and vigorous. 

 The season is second early. The fruits are a deep flat globe shape, 

 or as nearly globular in form as it is possible to obtain a large tomato. 



Seed furnished by M. M. Miesse & Son, Lancaster, Ohio. 



MUSKMELON. 



Rocky Ford. 



This variety is a strain of the old and well-known Netted Gem, and 

 has recently been 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 care- 

 ful shipping they have practiced as for the fine melons they have been 

 able to produce in their ideal melon-growing country. The develop- 

 ment of the variety is obscure and disputed. It was first introduced 

 by seedsmen in 1899. 



The melon is very early and productive and the fruits 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 P. V. Burrill, of Rocky Ford, Colo., from melons of uniform 

 size that were ideal in every particular. 



