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Johnson & Stokes' Specialties for Market Gardeners. 



John CCleClecxtty' s 



IJVIPROVED 



JEJJNY MfJD JVIOSKIVIELON 



This valuable strain is the result of many 

 years' careful selection and improvement on the 

 old-fashioned Jenny Lind, made by Mr. John 

 McCleary, one of the best-known truckers of 

 Burlington County, N. J. These melons realize 

 handsome prices in Philadelphia and New York 

 markets on account of their delicious quality and 

 great earliness, being larger, roughing up better, 

 and keeping fully a week longer than other strains. 

 Invaluable for first early market and shipping. 

 Oz., loc; }4 lb., 30C.; lb., |r.oo ; 5 lbs., I4.50 ; 25 

 lbs. and over, 85c. per lb. 



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' "RD. The Great Colorado Nutmeg Melon. We offer Kenuine 

 our own growing, also choice seed grown and selected in Colorado 



Paul l^ose or Petoskey 



The Best Hed-pleshed JVIuskmelon 



The Paul Rose is a cross of the Osage with 

 Netted Gem. It possesses the fine netting of the 

 Gem, and averages about the same size ; but owing 

 to the great thickness of its beautiful salmon- 

 colored flesh will weigh at least one-third more 

 than a Netted Gem of the same size. The size is 

 ranch more convenient for packing in baskets than 

 the Osage, while as a shipper and long keeper it 

 surpasses all other red-fleshed melons. In Chicago 

 and some other Western cities, where there is a 

 good demand for the red or salmon-fleshed vari- 

 eties, the Paul Rose sells at double the price of 

 other sorts. Market gardeners who grow red- 

 fleshed melons will find the Paul Rose their most 

 profitable sort ; nothing better could be obtained. 

 Oz., IOC-; X lb-. 25c.; lb., 75c.; 5 lbs. and over, 

 70c. per lb. 



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In the past few years Colorado 

 has developed into a great melon- 

 growing State. In 1899 over i,coo 

 carloads of these now celebrated 

 Rocky Ford Muskmelons were 

 shipped, reaching almost every 

 large market in the United States. 

 The}' differ from the old " Netted 

 Gem" in being more oblong in 

 shape and possessing much better 

 shipping and keeping qualities. 

 The Rocky Ford, Colorado, grow- 

 ers pack them in crates of 45 

 melons each, loading 365 crates to 

 the car, and they seldom fail to 

 reach the most distant Eastern 

 markets in perfect condition. 

 Owing to the growing popularity 

 of this melon, much spurious seed 

 is offered. Genuine seed, oz., loc; 

 '4 lb., 20c. ; lb., 65c. ; 5 lbs. for |;.3.oo. 



PAn. ROSR. Showing its thick tiesh nnd small seed cavity. 



