
900 of Maute’s Four-Leaf Clover GUARANTEED SEEDS. Address all orders to WM. HENRY M AULE, No. 1711 Wilbert Street, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. A. 
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JMAULE'S NETTED GEM 
OR ROGKY FORD /MUSKMELON 




















This now famous melon is nothing more nor less than a localized 
form of my old standard Netted Gem. It is a small, early melon, 
weighing 14 to 1% pounds. The flesh is deep and thick, and light green 
in color, except next the seeds, where it inclines toward yellow. 
flavor is exceedingly fine. The skin is green, regularly ribbed and 
thickly netted. It isa firm, solid melon, and will carry in perfect con- 
dition for a week or more after its removal from the vine. 
heavy cropper, and is in wide favor as a market melon. Indeed, its 
ability to bear transportation without breaking down has made it one 
of the most profitable of crops, and explains why it is so universally 
grown. It has many local names. In New Jersey it is variously 
known as the Netted Gem, Golden Jenny and Golden Gem. In Colo- 
rado it has taken the name of Rocky Ford, from a locality where it 
grows in great abundance and perfection, and from whence it is 
shipped all over the country in quantities, even to the fruit stores in 
Philadelphia and all the other large Eastern cities. I notice that the 
Same melon is also called Rocky Ford Nutmeg, Alamo Nutmeg and 
















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MAULE’S NETTED GEM OR ROCKY FORD MUSKMELON. 
Dewey Gem Nutmeg; and it no doubt has many other names of locai 
choice. I have the original strain of this celebrated melon, the seed 
being grown with the utmost care as to purity, and I ean recommend 
it. The Rural New Yorker, Noy. 4, 1899, contained the following from 
Mr. Paul Rose, the originator of the Petoskey or Paul Rose Melon. 
|«*A word in regard to the celebrated ‘Rocky Ford.’ This melon is the 
Netted Gem and nothing else. * * * Seedsmen who are offering this 
as a variety must surely know better. I think that this rabbit’s foot 
has been worked upon the public long enough and should be severely 
repressed.” My customers who wish genuine Netted Gem or Rocky 
Ford seed may be sure of getting it from me. I have anticipated a 
large call for it, and am prepared to meet the demand. The Netted 
Gem or Rocky Ford melon has been so generally and widely adver- 
tised that it will be a good seller for years to come; the best seller, no 
doubt, among the melons. It is as good as it is widely fashionable, 
and is certain to be the most profitable thing of its kind for both do- 
mestic and commercial purposes during the year 1900. 
Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 1o cents; quarter=-pound, 25 cents; pound, 75 cents, postpaid. 
BECK’S STRAWBERRY MUSKMELON. 
This promising new muskmelon grows to a 
large size. The greenish yellow flesh is deep and 
fine. The flavor is exceptionally good, though 
peculiar, suggesting strawberry, and hence the 
Dame. It was found in a patch of Montreal 
melons, near some strawberry rows; and the mel- 
ons were in blossom at the same time that the 
strawberries were blooming for a second time. 
The originator is confident that the bees carried 
strawberry pollen to the melon blossoms, and thus 
influenced the taste of the melon from which 
this new variety is descended. I neither endorse 
nor deny the originator’s theory. It is sufficient to 
Know that a new and interesting muskmelon 
has been produced. The strawberry melon has 
somewhat the external appearance of the old Nut- 












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PETOSKEY OR PAUL ROSE MUSKMELON. 
PETOSKEY OR PAUL ROSE MUSKMELON. 
This fine salmon-fleshed muskmelon, according to the bulk of the 
testimony relating to it, is a hybrid between Osage and Netted Gem, 
and has strong features of both parents. It is a rather small melon, of 
round or slightly oblong shape, ribbed and netted, and of high table 
quality. The flesh is firm, deep and spicy, and the rind thin, and the 
seed cavity very small. Notwithstanding the thin rind it is a good 
Shipper, and is admirably adapted to withstand injury in transporta- 
tion, and is hence available for the fancy trade of distant markets. 
offer seed grown directly from headquarters stock. The size of the 
melon is so uniform that it is easy to make an attractive shipping 
package. A Climax half-bushel handle basket will just bold sixteen 
melons, the basket being oblong in shape and the melons placed in 
two layers or tiers. Mr. Paul Rose, the originator, asserts that this 
variety will carry farther, stand up longer, and give better satisfaction 
than any other salmon-fleshed melon on the market. This melon 
holds a leading place in Chicago and other Western cities, and I offer 
it as the most promising of the vellow-tleshed sorts. Packet, 5 cents; 
ounce, 10 cents; 4 pound, 25 cents; pound, 75 cents. 
meg, being ribbed and netted. It remains green 
in color until ripe, when it assumes a yellowish 
tint. It is in great demand where known, and the 
Originator says that people stood in a row in his 
market, waiting to buy it, though he sold it only 
with seeds removed. It is an early melon; much 
earlier than its parent. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 
15 cents; 44 pound, 30 cents ; pound, $1.00. 



BECK’S STRAWBERRY MUSKMELON. 
