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Variety. Origin. iNTRonucER. Ye.\r. 



Extra Early Hack- 



ensack Selected HackeiT^ack Peter Henderson & Cn. 



Rocky Ford " Netted Gem Rocky Ford Growers. 



Osage " Miller's Cream A^aiighan's Seed Store. 



Surprise Wliite Japan 



X Orange Christiana . Price & Knickerbocker. 1876 



Bay View Cassaba X Large California. . . W. Atlee P)urpee & Co. 1877 



Chicago Market . . Selected Montreal Vaughan. 



Anne Arundel.... " Baltimore Market.... J. Balgiano & Son. 



Miller's Cream . . . Sill's Hybrid X Cassaba J. J. H. Gregory & Sons. 1885 



Missouri .Accidental Sport D. Landreth & Sons . . . i8q2 



Extra Early Roof. " "...... " " ...1878 



Cosmopolitan ....American X European (?).... D. M. Ferry & Co. 

 Green Fleshed 



Osage Selection of Grand View Johnson & Stokes. 



McCotter's Pride. Sport of Peerless Ferry. 



Eong Island 



Beauty Selected Jenny Lind J. M. Thorburn & Co. . 1S93 



Osage Gem Osage X Netted Gem Vaughan. 



Defender Sport of Paul Rose Ferry. 



Newport Selected Jenny Lind Henderson. 



Jersey Belle " " " Johnson & Stokes. 



Paul Rose " Osage Vaughan. 



Grand View " Emerald Gem " 



Carmes Imported from Syria Henderson. 



Oklahoma Rocky Ford X Hackensack (?). J. W. Tetrick & Son.. .1902 



Khiva Winter . . . .Foreign F. Barteldes & Co. 



Large California 



Nutmeg Selected Runyon Cox Seed Co. 



Other varieties are largely chance seedlings or crosses. Doubtless much 

 more definite information will be available later. 



The following abstracts that I have received through corres])cin(lencc may 

 also prove of interest in showing muskmelon development : 



Banquet, Green-fleshed Osage, Delmonico and a Mixed Flesh Unnamed 

 Variety. 



We have sold three varieties of muskmelons to the houses that first 

 catalogued them. The Banquet muskmelon was found by us in the hands of 

 a gardener, who could give us no information about it save that he had grown 

 it for a good many years and had first secured his seed from some other 

 farmer or gardener. We could not trace the matter back, and cannot say 

 where or when the variety first appeared. The Green-fleshed Osage came 

 from a variety called the Grand View (which was nothing more or less than 

 an impure strain of Emerald Gem). While inspecting a crop of the Grand 

 View we found a single vine bearing six well-developed melons of an entirely 

 different type; we picked the melons and next season planted the seed, and 

 neither the first season nor at any time since have we found so much as one 

 single impurity in this variety. It came absolutely pure and true from the 

 start, and it is worthy of note that this green-meated variety came from a yel- 

 low-meated sort. We had only to continue planting until we had sufficient seed 

 to sell, and then we sold it to Johnson & Stokes, who named it Green-fleshed 

 Osage because of its similarity in size and shape to the Red-meated Osage. 

 The perfected Delmonico was sold by us to Peter Henderson & Co. after 

 some five or six years of selection continued from a 'sport' or impurity found 

 in a field of their Delmonico. This sort kept reverting to the parent type 

 and was very hard to get pure and true to the new form. We have at one 

 time and another saved and continued cultivation for several years on distinct 



