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We grow our Melon Seed almost exclusively on our own farms and those of our private growers in Southern New 
Jersey, a locality famous for producing the finest melons in the world. Weare to-day the largest growers of melon seeds in 
the United States, our annual production amounting to many tons. During past years we have annually supplied them, not 
only in the United States, but to customers in nearly every country in Europe, South America, Mexico and West Indies. 
We also supply, every season, over our counter, hundreds of New Jersey truck gardeners with our superior strains. We 
attribute the popularity of cur melon, us well as of other seeds, to our careful and personal selection of the very finest 
specimens for our seed stocks, thus improving and breeding up our stoeks to the highest state of perfection. As will be 
noticed in the following descriptions, several of the best and most popular melons now known were first named and intro- 
duced by us. We desire to call special attention to two new varieties of muskmelons offered this season for the first time and 
also the Johnson’s Dixie Watermelon, all of which will be found fully described and illustrated under Novelties for 1891. 
JMUSKMELONS 
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MUSKMELON.—Cantaloupe. 
One ounce will plant about seventy hills; three pounds 
will plant one acre. i 
NETTED BEAUTY. Now offered for the first time. 
See Novelties, page 5. Pkt., l5c.; oz., 35¢.; 4 oz., $1.00. 
EXTRA EARLY PRIZE JENNY LIND. A carefully 
selected and improved strain of the well-known Jenny Lind, 
prized for its great earliness and rapidity with which it sells 
in market. It is very popular in New Jersey, and already 
largely grown for, and is the first Northern-grown musk- 
melon offered on the New York and Philadelphia markets. 
Very thickly netted, small size and shape as shown in above 
eut; of excellent flavor and quality. Pkt., 5¢.; oz.,10e.; 4% 
Ib., 25e.; Ib., 80c.; 5 Ibs. and over, by express, 65¢. per Ib. A 
_ GOLDEN GEM (Netted Gem, cr Golden Jenny). 
This valuable new cantaloupe, first introduced by us, is 
admitted by prominent melon growers to be the very best 
and most popular early variety now grown. The illustration 
above, engraved from a_photograph, shows their shape, 
which is nearly round. They grow very uniform in shape 
and size, weighing about two pounds each, skin green and 
thickly netted. They are very thick meated, flesh of a light 
green color, the inside surface, when cut open, being of a 
beautiful golden color. In quality and flavor they are 
superior, being uniformly rich, sugary and luscious. They are 
extra, early in ripening, coming in a few days after our Extra 
Early Prize Jenny Lind, the vines keeping green longer 
and producing better than any variety we have ever known. 
They sell in markets, where known. right alongside of other 
good varieties. at double price. Pkt., 5¢e.; oz., 10¢.; 14 Ib., 
30c.; lb., 85¢.; 5 lbs. and over, by express, 70c. per Ib. 
This melon is the most 
popular of all in Baltimore markets and throughout Mary- 
ACME, or BALTIMORE. 
land, where itis known as Baltimore Citron. It has of late 
years also become prominent in Philadelphia and New York 
markets as Acme Cantaloupe, and in its season is now much 
sought after by the best hotels and restaurants, owing to its 
handsome appearance and excellent quality. It is quite 
early, very large and showy, pointed at the ends, as shown 
in cut, strongly netted, thick, rich, green flesh. It is un- 
questionably one of the best and most profitable varieties for 
shipping to distant markets. Pkt., 5c.; oz.,10c.; 44 Ib.. 25¢.; 
lb., 75c.: 5 ]bs. and over, by freight or express, 60c. per Ib. 
NEW EARLY HACKENSACK. This valuable variety 
is ready for market fully ten days ahead of the well-known 
Hackensack, its progenitor, which it much resembles in size, 
shape and quality. The melons are almost equal in size to 
the old Hackensack, weighing from five to ten pounds each. 
It is also very productive, averaging from five to six melons 
to the vine, all of which are very deeply netted. Its carrying 
and shipping qualities are equal to those of any known 
variety, and is fast beeoming popular in the South, where it 
is grown for shipment to New York markets. Oz., 10c.; 44 Ib.. 
30c.; Ib., 85e.; 5 Ibs. and over, 70c. per Ib. 
CHICAGO MARKET. A superior market variety, 
developed by Mr. A. Colvin, a well-known Chicago gardener. 
It is by far the most popular green-fleshed Nutmeg in Chicago 
and other Western markets, and is steadily growing in favor 
in the East. It comes quite early for such a good-sized melon. 
Very uniform in size, deep green flesh of excellent quality. 
Pkt., 5c.; oz., 10c.; 44 1b., 30c.; Ib., 85¢.; 5 Ibs. and over, 70c. 
per lb. 
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