POPULAR VEGETABLE SEEDS 



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JOHNSON'S DIXIE WATERMELON. 



OTHING we have ever introduced has met with such large sale, and brought iis so matiy 

 strong recommendations from growers in all sections of the country as this wonderful 

 melon. Jolinson's Dixie is the only watermelon now in demand at g'ood prices and 

 at a liandsome profit to growers on New York, Philadelphia and Boston markets in the 

 selling season. It is a cross between the Kolb Gem and Old-Fashioned Mountain 

 Sweet, made by one of the largest truck and melon growers of North Carolina. It surpasses the Kolb 

 Gem in shipping qualities, and fully equals the Mountain Sweet in fine eating quality and flavor, and is 

 a week to ten days earlier than either. It has a remarkably thin rind, almost impenetrable, which 

 preserves it for a great length of tiAie, keeping three times as long as either of the two varieties named 

 before showing decay. Its great productiveness is shown from the fact that the past five seasons it 

 matured from six to eight larg'e melons to the vine, while Kolb Gem rarely produced more than 

 two or three. The vines grow strong and rapidly, with more laterals than any other melon, and have 

 the singular and very valuable quality of rooting' from every joint, adding greatly to the product- 

 iveness and life of the vines. The meat is more scarlet, finer and of much better quality. 



In competition for the $100. OO Cash Prizes offered by us for the largest Johnson's Dixie grown 

 in 1892, over four hundred customers reported weights of fifty pounds and over. The largest and heav- 

 iest melon grown, and for which our first prize was awarded, weighed 133 pounds, and measured 37 

 inches in length, with a diameter of 18 inches. This wonderful melon was grown by Samuel 

 Barnes, Esq. , of Wills Point, Texas. 



When we first introduced this new melon to the public in the spring of 1890, we paid what we be- 

 lieve to be the highest price per pound ever given for a crop of melon seed The stock seed from which 

 our present supply was grown was taken from the very choicest specimens in a field of thirty acres. The 

 great popularity of Johnson's Dixie is due entirely to the great care and attention given to our 

 selected strain, which is the best that care and money could produce. It has come to our knowledge 

 that a vastly inferior melon is being offered and sold as Dixie. I<ook out for it. Buy direct from 

 the introducers and you will be sure to get the genuine. 



Prices : Pkt , 5c.; oz., loc. ; % lb., 15c.; lb., 50c.; 5 lbs. and over, 45c. per lb., by express. 

 Extra Selected Stock Seed, saved from picked melons, the largest and finest in our patch. 

 Pkt., loc; oz., 20c.; ^ lb., 40c.; lb., I1.25. 



WHITE GEM. A new round, white-skinned variety, 

 somewhat resembling the well-known Russian Volga, but 

 said to have come originally from China. It is extremely 

 hardy and productive, and thrives well in our climate; flesh 

 pink and of delicious flavor; rind thin, but very tougli and 

 hard. Pkt., 5c.; oz., lOc; y^ lb., 20c.; lb., 65c. 



CUBAJ^ QUEEN. Skin beautifully striped, dark and 

 light green. The flesh is bright red, remarkably solid, luscious, 

 crisp and sugary, very solid and the best of keepers; excellent 

 to ship to distant markets. They have been grown to weigh 

 over one hundred poimds; are enormously productive. Pkt., 

 5c.; oz., lOc; % lb., 15c.; lb., 40c.; 5 lbs., $1.75. 



HUNGARIAN HONEY. A new variety brought from 

 Hungary a few years since. They grow round as a cannon 

 ball, very uniform in size and weight, running from ten to 

 twelve pounds. The outside skin is dark green, rind very 

 thin, flesh red and unusually sweet and luscious. Pkt., 5c.; 

 o»., lOc; M lb., 30c.; lb., 90c. 



MAMMOTH IRON-CLAD. This melon grows to a 

 very large uniform size, frequently weighing eighty pounds 

 and over, and resembles in its markings the Cuban Queen. 

 In shape and seed, however, it is quite distinct, being deeper 

 and fuller at both ends, with seed of drab-white color. They 

 are enormous yielders, flesh red, solid and of excellent flavor. 

 The rind is extremely tough and hard — hence their name, 

 Iron-Clad — rendering them valuable for shipping. Pkt., 

 5c.; oz., lOo.; 34 lb., 1.5c.; lb., 40c.; 5 lbs., $1.75. 



KENTUCKY WONDER. This is a new red-seeded 

 variety. We have never known a red-seeded watermelon 

 that was not a good one, this being the best we have ever 

 grown. In shape it is oblong; skin dark green, marbled in 

 stripes of light green ; flesh a beautiful scarlet color, crisp, 

 tender, rich and sugary flavor, always firm and never mealy. 

 Attains an average weight of forty to sixty pounds. A real 

 good, old-fashioned Kentucky melon, that has few equals in 

 quality. Pkt., 5c.; oz., lOc; ^ lb., 20c.; lb., 60c. 



