WM. HENRY MAULE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
MUSKMELONS OR CANTALOUPES. 
CULTURE.—Plant seed in hills 4 to 6 feet apart each way, after danger 
Insert seeds | or buhach. 
light, warm Soil is best, but there are varieties of melons well adapted 
to loamy and even heavy ground, if well drained. In hoeing draw the 
soil well up to the plants. Fight bugs with tobacco dust, bone meal 
of frost is over. Use well rotted manure in the hills. 
| | Maule’s Netted Gem | 
or Rocky Ford Muskmelon. 
In Favor for a Quarier of a Century as a Paying Sort 
for Home and Market. 
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This delicious melon is nothing more nor less 
than a form of my old standard Netted Gem. It is 
a small, early melon, weighing 1'4 to 144 pounds. 
The flesh is deep and thick, and light green in color, 
except next the seeds, where it inclines towards 
yellow. The flayor is exceedingly fine. The skin is 
green, regularly ribbed and thickly netted. It isa 
firm, solid melon, and will carry in perfect condi- 
tion for a week or more after its removal from the 
vine. It is a heavy cropper, and is in wide favor as 
amarket melon. Indeed, its ability to bear trans- 
portation without breaking down has made it one 
of the most profitable of crops, and explains why 
it isso universally grown. It has many local names. 
In New Jersey it is known as Netted Gem, Golden 
Jenny and Golden Gem. In Colorado it has 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, even to 
Philadelphia and other large Eastern cities. I 
have the original strain of this celebrated melon, 
FERRY’S NEW DEFENDER MUSKMELON, 
One of the best of the yellow-fleshed sorts. Of medium size, some- 
what elongated, well netted and of pleasing appearance. The flesh is 
edible almost to the rind. The inside color is a little darker than Osage, 
and is richer in flavor. The flesh is fine-grained and firm, and the melon 
bears transportation well. Pkt., 5¢e.; 0z., 15¢.3 14 1b., 40c.; ib., $1.25. 
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and Netted Gem, 
fleshed yellow or & 
within my know- 
An extra early type of the Jenny Lind, of the same size as the parent 
but earlier to reach maturity, and hence more valuable. It has the green 
flesh and characteristic sweetness and spiciness of the parent. The 
market gardeners and farmers at Norfolk, Virginia, have for some 
years made money with this splendid strain of Jenny Lind, and it 
became so well known and so famous as to require a distinctive title. 
Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 15 cts.; ‘4 pound, 40 cts.; pound, $1.25. 
seed being grown with the utmost care as to purity. 
Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 
lj pound, 30 cents; pound, $1.00. 
PETOSKEY OR 
PAUL ROSE. 
This extra fine 
salmon fleshed 
melonisahybrid 
between Osage 
larger than 
Osage Gem, with 
deeper flesh. It § 
isthe thickest & 
salmon colored 
muskmelon 
ledge. Itis small 
in size, slightly 
elongated in 
shape, and of de- 
lightful flavor. 
Notwithstanding 
its thin rind, 
Petoskey is a 
good shipper and 
fine melon for 
market purposes. 
Pkt., 5 cts.; oz., 10 cts.; 14 1b., 30 cts.; lb., $1.00. 
MAULE’S SUPERIOR. 
MAULE’S SUPERIOR. — (Green flesh.) This excellent early 
muskmelon, which I introduced, now holds a permanent place in 
public esteem. It ripens about the same time as Jenny Lind, but is 
rather larger than that variety. Its shape and appearance are shown 
in the illustration. The vine is very prolific, frequently producing 
five to seven melons. The quality is unsurpassed, and it is a perfect 
shipper. The fruit is never known to crack or rot at the blossom end, 
and is so attractive in appearance as to command a higher price than 
other early sorts. Pkt., 5 cts.; oz., 15 cts.; 14 Ib., 40 cts,; Ib., $1.25. 
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Full cultural directions are printed 
on every packet of Maule’s Seeds. 
