v. 
= )asket more than any other variety. 
= been chosen than Superior for this excellent Muskmelon, and my customers can 
from 114 to 14% pounds each. They are thick- 
meated, the flesh is light green in color, and 
uniformly of fine, luscious flavor; skin green, 
BD Mavie’s yp 
q unquestionably leads all other Muskmelons in quality, product=- 
NETTED GEM.—A small melon, weighing | 
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ERIK ELON, 
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(See illustration on last page of cover.) 
No one is better aware than I that during the last few years any number of 
new Muskmelons have been offered the American public; consequently I have 
been unusually careful in growing and examining into the merits of this new 
variety before offering it to my customers. Imow do so, however, with 
the full confidence that Maule’s Superior Muskmelon will prove 
the most profitable market variety in cultivation, for the Superior 
iveness and quick market sales. Ripening about the same time as the 
Jenny Lind, they are wonderfully strong and vigorous growers, producing 
frequently 5, 6 and7 melons to the vine that in quality will equal, if not surpass, 
every known variety, and that for transportation purposes cannot be excelled. @ 
They have never been known to crack or rot at the blossom end, and they are so = 
attractive in appearance that they will always command from 10 to 25 cents per 
I do not think a better name could have 
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rest assured that if they want the most profitable variety for market 
they should select this one, and if they desire the most desirable Musk- 
melon for the home garden they cannot do better than plant Superior the 
coming season. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 20 ets.;44 pound, 60 cts.; pound, $2.00. 
MAULE’S PRIZE JENNY LIND.— — 
It is astonishing that this, the most delicious 
small melon, isso little known outside of the 
State of New Jersey. There it is more largely 
grown than any other variety, and thousands 
regularly ribbed and thickly netted. They are 
almost as solid as a = 
upon thousands of 
eannon ball, jand will = 
keep well five to seven 
days after picking. They 
area very heavy cropper, 
SZ and are extra early in 
Pkt., 5c. -Yipening. Ioffer seed 
grown from stock ob- 
tained direct from introducer, and can recommend it 
to all. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 14 pound, 
= 30 cents; pound, 
90 cents, 
Netted Gem. 
oe 
BALTIMORE. Packet, 5 cents. STARN’S FAVO 
STARNW’S FAVORITE.—This variety, which I introduced in 1887, was also 
catalogued the same year under the name of ‘‘Champion Market.” It origi- 
nated with one of my customers, Mr. E. N. Starn, of New Jersey, about ten years 
ago. Mr. Starn has grown it to the exclusion of all other varieties ever since, 
annually planting from 10 to 20 acres, the products of which have always sold 
at good prices the entire season, and many times at two to three times the 
price of other sorts. They are nearly round, just a little oblong, thickly 
netted, with thick, green flesh. Rich and spicy and one of the very best flavored 
_ EARLY IMPROVED CHRISTIANA.— This is a most popular early 
in New York State, being 10 days earlier than than the Nutmeg. Many market 
growers, having once planted it, always continue to do so, pronouncing it just the 
sort for early market on account of its extreme earliness. Try it. Pkt., 5 cents; 
ounce, 10 cents; 14 pound, 25 cents; pound 70 cents. 
‘CASABA.—It has thick green flesh, of delicate and delicious flavor. 
Weight from 10 to 12 lbs. Pkt., 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 14 lb., 25 ets.; lb., 70 ets. 
HACKENSACK. —Large size, well known in N. Y. market. Round shape, 
flattened ends;deeply netted, MONTREAL.--Often weigh- 
very productive,excel- ing from 20 to 25 lbs. In 1883, 
lent quality. Liked three melons were raised, 
by market gar- weighing respectively 3914, 
deners. Pkt. ZB Sy 384, and 3844 Ibs. each, 
In addition to their 
14 1b.25 large size, the flesh is 
¢.; 1b, WW remarkably thick, of 
70¢. SQA delicious melting fla- 
ANWA vor, regular shape 
We nearly round flat- 
iB tened ends, skin 
4a green, densely 
netted, and very 
productive. At 
ONNY considerable ex- 
WNW pense, I pro- 
NW cured a few lbs. 
aww of Montreal di- 
m rect from orig- 
mM inal source in 
f Canada. Pkt.10ce. 
oz., 15 ¢.; 44 Ib., 
- 85¢.; lb., $1.10. 
RITE. 
baskets are annually {Sieh 
shipped to New York \K \ 
an 
of this popular variely Maule’s Prize Jenny Lind. ¢ 
It is the earliest of all the green- 
eoornziae Oa Tw ayn IAdAOT) Jeo Te-inO. &£,3Inew JO TEeeTt 
‘~m SsoTDpnt 
MAULE’S BAY VIEW. Packet, 5 cents. 
Packet, 10 cents. 
in cultivation. They are shy seeders; the cavity for seed in many of them is so F 
small thatif they were all seed inside the flesh they could not contain many. ¢€ 
They are very attractive in appearance and a good shipper. Mr Starn has never 
had a grower to see or taste them but wanted some of the seed. In addition to 
their attractive appearance and most excellent shipping qualities, they are also 
an enormous cropper and will be pronounced by all who plant them as most 
certainly a favorite and most profitable market variety. Pkt.. 5 cts. ; 
ounce, 10 cents ; 14 pound, 30 cents; 1 pound, $1.0u. 
BALTIMORE.— Quite 
early and very large and showy. 
A fine netted, green fleshed 
variety, for either market or 
private gardeners. Pkt., 5c.; 
0z., 10¢.; 14 lb., 25c.; 1b., 70c. 
MAULE’S BAY VIEW. 
—Under ordinary cultivation 
will reach 12 to 15lbs. Ve 
roductive, and most excel- 
ent in many other ways; they 
are firm when ripe; excellent 
for shipping. Packet, 5 cents; 
ounce, 10 cents; Y% pound, 25 
cents ; pound, 70 cents. 
NUTMEG.—Skin deep 
green, finely netted; flesh of 
rich and delicious ee a vie 
5 ets.; ounce, 10 ets.; 4% pound, ’ ; 
25 cents; pound, 70 cents. NUTMEG. Packet, 5 cents. 
HARDY RIDGE.—This is a great favorite in France. Flesh is wonder- 
fully thick, 4 to 5 in. through; juicy and sugary, with few seeds. Pkt., 10¢.; oz., 30c. & 
BANANA.—At first Banana Melon was cultivated more as a curiosity than dq 
anything else, but the last few seasons haye seen them bring such high prices, @ 
50 cents to $1.00 a piece in Philadelphia, New York and Boston markets, that 
they prove a most profitable market crop. They must not be confounded 
with the old Log of Wood, as they are entirely distinct and resemble no other 
melon. They attain a length of from eighteen inches to two feet six inches, and » 
are from two to four inches thick. Flesh, very thick, of a salmon color; in flayor 
remarkably delicious, and equal to almost any melon you have ever eaten. It 
looks almost like an overgrown banana, and, moreover, smells like one. 
It is not only a curiosity, but in flayor is unquestionably fine. Packet, 5 cents ; 
ounce, 10 cents; 4% pound, 30 cents; pound, 90 cents. 
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