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New Extra 
One weex earlier than any Other Variety. 
This isa grand novelty which I introduced last year. The main 
characteristic of this melon is its extreme earliness. Grand Rapids is 
well known on account of its progressive market gardeners, and in that 
wide awake city the New Grand Rapids Melon has been on the market 
two weeks earlier than any other sort, and sold readily at $2.50 per dozen 
to hotels and fancy grocers, while Melons grown in the South were 
practically unsalable. There is no question that it is bound to supersede 
the Extra Early Hackensack, as it is at least two weeks earlier. Shape 
is well shown in the illustration, which is taken from a photograph. 
Flesh is pure yellow, clear to the rind; skin finely netted; the hand- 
some appearance of this melon is sure to attract attention. To attain 
best results, and to show its remarkable earliness and prolificness, I 
would advise my customers to pinch off the runners; while it has no 
tendency to run more than other varieties, at the same time by throw- 
ing the growth into the fruit, it makes the fruit of larger size and ear- 
lier. During the past summer I received hundreds of unsolicited testi- 
monial letters, all speaking in the highest terms of this grand acquisi- 
tion. Mr. D. R. Johnson, of Blackshear, Ga., probably one of the 
largest and most successful market gardeners in the South says; **The 
14% pounds of Grand Rapids Muskmelon seed I bought of you, planted 
nearly 8,000 hills, making from 2 to 4 fine melonstothe hill. Isold 
them for 5 to 15 cents apiece; they ripened five weeks earlier than any 
seed I had previously planted. There was many came to see my field 
and quite a number of newspapers printed facts concerning it.” 
Why not be up-to-date and ahead of your neighbors, and have the 
earliest Muskmelons in your neighborhood in 1896. 
Grand Rapids is absolutely the HARLIEST of all melons, large or 
small, while in shape and general appearance %* is orte of the handsomest 
melons ever offered the American melon grower. 
Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 20 cts.; 4 pound, 50 cts.; pound, $1.50. 
$100.00 Oct. 15, 1896, 2 ill pay $100.00 to the customer 
who sends me the largest and best 
specimen of Extra Early Grand Rapids Muskmelon, on or before 
Oct. 15, ’96, grown from seed purchased of me this year. 
TIP TOP MUSKMELON. 
This is a fine round melon of such attractive appearance that read- 
ily makes it a selling variety in market. Every fruit, whether large or 
Small, early or late in the season, is of delicious, sweet, juicy flavor; the 
flesh is firm but not hard, and eatable to the very outside coating. In 
productiveness it is unexcelled, being a strong and willing grower. 
Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 15 cents; 44 pound, 30 cents; pound, $1.00. 
MELROSE MUSKIMIELON. 
This is across of a number of varieties, among which Mr. Paynter 
Frame the originator informs me, Maule’s Perfection entered quite 
largely. They average about 3 or 4 pounds in weight, are finely netted, 
flesh thick, solid and of superior quality and sweetness. The melons 
are produced abundantly and very close to the hill. Packet, 6 cents; 
ounce, 15 cents: 44 pound, 80 cents; pound, $1.00. 
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