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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 yellow- 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 types of 

 melons (usually sports found in fields of other sorts) to the 

 number of twenty or thirt}', only to find at last that the type 

 we were working for could not be perpetuated. We have 

 been working for eight years on a type of muskmelon in 

 which each melon contains both yellow and green meat in- 

 termingled, but we have not ^et succeeded in getting the 

 variety sufficiently established to sell for introduction. This 

 was produced from a patch in which alternate hills were 

 planted to different varieties, and curiously enough is the 

 result of crossing in this manner two ye//ozv-meRted varieties. 

 We also note that the impurities that we throw out of our 

 yearly trials of this cross are green-meated, and we have not 

 yet found any melons in the cross with wholly yellow meat. 

 We cannot offer any explanation of this fact, nor of what we 

 have said about the Green-fleshed Osage." 



Chauncey p. Coy & Son, 



JVedraska. 



LONG ISLAND BEAUTY MUSKMELON. 

 INTRODUCED 1S93. 



" A variety of the Plackensack t^q^e, originated on Long 

 Island. It is of very superior quality, with green flesh, and 

 densely netted. In shape it resembles the Hackensack, but 

 is slightly more ribbed, and is decidedly the most attractive 



