POPULAR VEGETABLE vSEEDS. 



JOHNSON'S •!• Christmas •!• Watermelon 



This most valuable, new and distinct watermelon, named and introduced by us three years since, stands unequalled and 

 ■alone, its keeping and shipping qualifies being unapproached by any other variety. Our extensive experience in the growth 

 -of all varieties of watermelons for seed in ])ast years, together with the assurance of hundreds of melon growers \yho have 

 tested it, enables us to assert that Jolinsoii's Clirislmriii Melon will, when fully introduced, supersede all other known melons 

 for shipping and keeping purposes. Since the original melon was discovered in 1883, we have each year enjoyed one of these 

 melons for both a Christmas and New Year's dinner, ^'hen, after being kept in our cellar for a period of three months, they cut 

 open as fresh and delicious as the day they were picked. Their valuable keeping and shipping qualities are due to a peculiar, 

 hard, tenacious coating or outside enamelling of the skin, which also gives them an exceedingly handsome and fresh appe? ranee, 

 even after being kept or allowed to remain on the vines for months after ripening. Notwithstanding the rind is quite thin, 

 we have dropped them from a height of four feet without breaking or bruising. The flesh is of a Iwautiful rich scarlet, very 

 solid and o/ilelicions, sugary flavor. Its uniform size and handsome, fresh appearance at all times, will make it the most sal- 

 able of any known variety. Seeds are few, small, and drab-white color. 



PRICES FOR 1889: Pkt., lOc; oz., 20c.; ^^Ib., 50c.; lb., fl.50. 



XUp VFRniPT FROM ALL OVER THE UNION. A few endorsements from Imndreds received— all we 

 Irl^ V^niJUjI have room to publish on this page. 



Petek Woll, Summit Station, Pa.: "I have raised a 

 great many watermelons, but never any to give such satis- 

 faction as Johnson's Christmas. Its keeping qualities are 

 excellent. The last of a number that I hud stored away was 

 eaten on the 1.5th of January and was most delicious." 



.1. F. Gettig, Hastings, Kan., Avrites: "There is no 

 melon grown that will keep equal to Johnson's Christmas. 

 Have had them all winter and still have more." 



Aakon Paul, Wenonah, N. J., -writes: "My opinion of 

 your Christmas Watermelon is, that it will prove the best 

 shipper in the world. I have grown nearly all varieties of 

 melons, and have never seen its equal. They could be bar- 

 relled up and shipped to Euiope with perfect safety. I kept 

 some in perfect condition till New Years. They are the most 

 hardy and productive variety I liave ever seen." 



F. I. HuLETT, Wales, Mass., writes: "The Johnson's 

 Christmas Melon are the finest on sale in tiiis town." 



D. H. Habman, Perryville, McDowell Co., W. Va., 

 writes : " The Johnson's Christmas Melon is the finest, 

 largest and most delicious melon I have ever seen." 



M. E. Potts, Glasco, Kan., Feb. 2, 1888, writes: "I 

 had a delicious Christmas Melon Jan. 20th, and have a dozen 

 in the cellar at the time I write. I have raised them for two 

 years, and pronounce them truly a wonder." 



C. Weaver, Rendville, Ohio, writes: "Your Christmas 

 Melon is the finest producing melon I ever grew. I had 

 twenty-two large melons from four vines, and had them after 

 Christmas." 



R. B. Martin, Woodbury, Conn., writes: "The .John- 

 son's Christmas Water Melon proved to be very fine and 

 .solid ^nd an excellent keeper, , We had eleven for our 

 "Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year dinners." 



